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Vmware Puts the Windows-on-M1 Ball in Microsoft’s Court With Progress Update

Home News (Image credit: VMware) VMware updated us on its progress on making Fusion compatible with Apple’s M1 chip this week. The company said it’s committed to “delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year,” but it’s not clear if that version of the tool will support Windows 10… Read more

MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC: all the audio file formats explained

Home Advice Organising your digital music collection, you might be struck by the number of different audio file formats in your library. Almost everyone’s heard of MP3, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? If the list leaves you wondering whether all those songs studied at different universities to get such official-looking letters after… Read more

Starfield reportedly targeting 2021 release; will be Xbox exclusive

Mustafa Mahmoud 13 hours ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Starfield is the next big game from Bethesda Game Studios. Teased all the way back in 2018, nothing else has been shown from the game, leading many fans to assume it to be a long ways away. According to one leaker however, Microsoft… Read more

Microsoft follows Epic’s lead, reduces Windows Store revenue cut to 12%

Earlier this week, we heard that Microsoft was due to make some announcements about its PC gaming store. Now, we know what changes are coming, as Microsoft is reducing its revenue cut for PC games sold through its store from 30 percent to 12 percent. This is the same strategy that Epic Games employed when… Read more

Fortnite is not on Xbox Cloud Gaming due to competition with Epic PC offerings

Home / Software & Gaming / Fortnite is not on Xbox Cloud Gaming due to competition with Epic PC offerings Matthew Wilson 16 hours ago Software & Gaming With the Epic Games V Apple trial set to get underway in just a matter of days, court documents are starting to reveal some interesting facts about… Read more

CES will return to its in-person event format in 2022

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago General Tech With COVID-19 vaccinations now rolling out in many countries across the world, in-person events are in a better position to finally return in 2022. In the tech world, we’ll be kicking this off with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which returns to its usual format next year. Today,… Read more

Xbox to reportedly update its commitments to PC gaming tomorrow

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, PC, Software & Gaming With Microsoft’s renewed brand focus for Xbox revolving around making games as accessible to players as possible, the console manufacturer has been putting more effort into the PC market than ever before. According to industry insider Jeff Grubb, Xbox is set to provide… Read more

Windows 10 now has 1.3 billion active users

Back when Microsoft first introduced Windows 10, it had a lofty goal of reaching 1 billion active users within its first three years. That milestone ended up taking five years to reach, with Windows 10 being found on 1 billion active devices by March 2020. Now a year later, Microsoft has added another 300 million… Read more

Xbox revenues rose to $15 billion over past 12 months

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings results last night, giving us a good idea as to how well Xbox is doing right now to start off the new console generation. Microsoft unfortunately doesn’t reveal specific sales numbers, but everything appears to be on the up, with the… Read more

Microsoft reveals how Halo Infinite will look on 32:9 super ultrawide monitors and other PC perks

I wish I’d had this to test with Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Microsoft has something of a history of neglecting PC gaming, but it’s trying to change that in a big way — by promising its flagship Halo Infinite will feel like a native PC game when it arrives later this year. We’ve known for many… Read more

Among Us is finally coming to PS4 and PS5, three years after its 2018 debut

The hit social deduction game Among Us is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 sometime this year, Sony announced during its State of Play presentation on Thursday. Like on other platforms, the game will support crossplay and online multiplayer so that you can play with your friends no matter what platform you’re on. But… Read more

World’s widest plane nails ‘extremely successful’ second test flight

Stratolaunch, the aerospace firm founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, flew its behemoth carrier airplane named ‘Roc’ on Thursday for a second time. It was the company’s first flight under new ownership, coming two years after the twin-fuselage craft’s initial flight test. “Today’s flight, at first review, has appeared extremely successful,” Stratolaunch’s chief… Read more

The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO2 reductions

More evidence surfaced this week that shows that forests are struggling to do humans’ dirty work when it comes to climate change. Although companies and countries are increasingly relying on forests to draw down their planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions, the math isn’t adding up to show big benefits. California might have oversold the success of… Read more

Microsoft to Focus on Bringing More Gaming Features to PC

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Earlier today, Microsoft released a blog post sharing the company’s thoughts on the gaming industry and its focus for gaming in 2021 and beyond. Microsoft’s goal has changed for the Xbox team and its gaming initiatives from focusing more on a specific platform (i.e the Xbox consoles) to being focused… Read more

Halo Infinite will support crossplay and cross-progression on Xbox and PC

Microsoft is announcing today that Halo Infinite will support crossplay and cross-progression when it launches later this year. This will allow PC and Xbox players to match together and play the Halo Infinite campaign, and the support also extends to multiplayer. Any multiplayer customization and progress will sync across both PC and Xbox. Halo Infinite’s… Read more