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Microsoft to launch Minecraft Education Edition

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Microsoft acquired the learning game MinecraftEdu and is coming with an extended version of Minecraft for the classroom called as Minecraft Education Edition. Launched in 2011 by TeacherGaming LLC from Finland, MinecraftEDU is a version of Minecraft for the school […]

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Halo 5: Guardians big update coming in December | First look

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

Halo 5: Guardians, newest in the franchise from 343 Industries for the Xbox One, is bound to get a ton of free DLC content in the future. The developer teased in a video what fans are expected to get, and […]

Lenovo and Razer join hands to build a range of Gaming Devices

By MahitHuilgol@TWC |

Razer is a brand that needs no introduction especially for the gaming folks this is the brand that has always listened to them and come out with some of the best gaming accessories. Now Lenovo has partnered with Razer to […]

Candy Crush Saga sold for 5.9 billion dollars

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Two big names in the gaming industry will now be one. Activsion Blizzard, the makers of Warcraft and Call on Duty has acquired King Digital Entertainment, the maker of one of the most popular Smartphone game Candy Crush Saga. The […]

Xbox unveils more of its greatest games

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

The Greatest Games Lineup in Xbox History started today with the announcement of best interactive games like Halo Wars 2, Quantum Break and more. In a keynote presentation at Gamescom Video Game conference 2015, Microsoft announced these games for Xbox […]

Microsoft demonstrates MineCraft for HoloLens at E3 event

By ChethanThimmappa@TWCN |

In the E3 event which was held at San Francisco, Microsoft demonstrated MinceCraft for HoloLens. Mojang, the company behind the popular game MineCraft was acquired by Microsoft last year. Mojang’s brand director, Lydia Winters was invited to the dais to […]

Microsoft and Duke University team up on new video game streaming tool

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

Streaming video games is considered as the future, which is why Microsoft has been working on ways to reduce the bandwidth desired to perform such a task. Apparently, the software giant has managed to reduce game streaming by 80 percent, […]

Oh no! Candy Crush Saga will come pre-installed on Windows 10

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Games like Solitaire, Hearts, Minesweeper have been popular on the Windows platform. These games have been played millions of times over the years in Windows. And they are coming back in Windows 10 going to be joined by the smash-hit […]

Solitaire returns to Windows 10

By VasudevG@TWC |

With Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10061, Microsoft has decided to bundle the Solitaire Collection with Windows 10. Many fans of classic games like Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts were left disappointed when Microsoft decided to remove it from Windows 8. Such […]

Mojang confirms it has fixed Minecraft Vulnerabilities

By ChethanThimmappa@TWCN |

Mojang, the company behind the popular Minecraft game has announced that it has fixed a security issue which exploited a loophole causing the game servers to crash. A security researcher by name Ammar Askar observed that the exploit allows any […]

Minecraft Vulnerability makes it easy to crash the Game Servers

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Minecraft was the undisputed indie success story of 2010. The game with in 3 years of its launch became third most popular computer game of all time, following Tetris and Wii Sports. Recently, a security researcher posted an exploit that […]

Kabam drops Windows Apps Development Support

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Last year, Microsoft – the software giant signed a deal with fairly established mobile game developer, Kabam. Fast forward 12 months we learn the company has decided to discontinue the apps development for Windows Phones. Kabam to focus on Apple […]

DuckTales Remastered game for Windows and Windows Phone released

By ChethanThimmappa@TWCN |

DuckTales Remastered, one of the popular titles of all time is now available for download across all range of Windows devices including Windows PCs, laptops, tablets and phones. The latest version of the game retains the authenticity of its 8-bit […]

Quantum Break for Xbox One is delayed into 2016

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN |

The Xbox One video game lineup for 2015 looks beautiful, but now it is less so after Microsoft announced that the hotly anticipated title, Quantum Break, has been delayed into 2016. Quantum Break for Xbox One delayed This came as […]

Turkey to ban Minecraft?

By ArunKumar@TWCN |

The last week has seen multiple reports that Turkey is on its way to ban Minecraft, a game newly acquired by Microsoft. Minecraft is a game that allows the imagination of players to run wild while coming up with their […]

Microsoft permits using Games’ names on YouTube

By ArunKumar@TWCN |

The wording on the new rules and regulations regarding creation of third party content based on Microsoft games was confusing. It sent out signals that Microsoft has been prohibiting usage of names of games built by Microsoft. This was depressing […]

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Microsoft acquires Minecraft maker Mojang

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Microsoft has finally made an official announcement of acquiring Minecraft maker Mojang. After being in rumours for a few days Minecraft and Majong are finally going to become a party of Microsoft Studios. The deal has been in confab for […]

Microsoft launches Escape from XP game

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

To showcase the capabilities of Microsoft’s proprietary browser Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft has released a game titled Escape from XP, that also serves to remind users that Windows XP support ended on 8th April. Escape from XP game The game […]

Popular Solitaire game arrives in Windows Phone Store

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

The popular solitaire game from Windows desktop operating system has arrived on Windows Phone store. Solitaire is a collection of several card-centric games that have made their way to the mobile ecosystem. These games include Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, TriPeaks and […]

Microsoft gaming classics Solitaire, Mahjong, Minesweeper arrive on Windows Phone

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Windows all-time favorite games like Solitaire Collection, Mahjong and Minesweeper are now available on Windows Phone platform. Earlier this year, Microsoft updated Minesweeper, MahJong and Solitaire for Windows 8/8.1 and these three titles are now available for the Windows Phone […]

Leading game company Ubisoft website hacked; user information compromised

By RogerDunning@TWCN |

A leading game company Ubisoft, popularly known for creating the Assassin’s Creed video-game series, has announced that the user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords of its account holders had been illegally accessed, leaving out their other personal information such […]

Microsoft bringing ‘Age of Empires’ to iOS and Android

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Software giant Microsoft is planning to bring a few of Windows PC games and consoles to Android and iOS devices as part of a deal with Japanese smartphone game maker KLab. One of those Windows PC games includes the classic […]