Tag: microsoft
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What Would Make You Want to Upgrade Your Console?
Yours truly back in June writing during Microsoft’s E3 presentation for the Xbox One X: …it feels like Microsoft is less interested in challenging Sony with this high-end console than harvesting their hardcore Xbox fans for yet another console purchase. I don’t doubt that this console will live up to its technical promises, but it…
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Xbox E3 2017 Briefing Notes
Every E3 has an Xbox press event, this year Microsoft is leading it off with a brief history of different resolutions that their hardware has supported. Or at least it has upscaled games to that. If you’re new to my writing, I’ll note here that I worked for Microsoft over a decade ago on the…
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Hot Wheels
The Hot Wheels expansion looks like fun and is out for Forza Horizon 3. It’s absolutely ridiculous that the game’s expansion pass that includes Hot Wheels and the earlier Blizzard Mountain expansion aren’t bundled in any edition of Forza Horizon 3, even the one-hundred dollar Ultimate Edition.
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Windows 10 Something Went Wrong Edition
Microsoft just announced a new laptop Surface device, it’s $1000 and comes with an intentionally broken version of their Windows 10 operating system. Matt Weinberger: The one thing to know is that the Surface Laptop is the poster child for Windows 10 S, a new version of the operating system that Microsoft says is more…
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Xbox Scorpio Tech Details
Eurogamer’s Richard Leadbetter has technical details of Microsoft’s goofy Project Scorpio. Unless Microsoft adds or changes something significant about the functionality of the console before it is launched, it just means a more expensive and more technically powerful Xbox console: Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six-teraflop target set for it as E3 last year,…