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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora—Secrets of the Spires DLC lands alongside PS5 Pro support

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:42:01 +0000

Ubisoft's open-world Avatar adventure just received its final piece of DLC. Secrets of the Spires adds a new mountainous region that focuses on aerial battles. Read more...

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Neowin Deals — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:00:01 +0000

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's first DLC 'The Sky Breaker' continues the Na'vi journey

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:58:01 +0000

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have unveiled the first DLC pack that's heading to Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Releasing in July, it will bring new a new region, new enemies, and more content. Read more...

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review: A gorgeous but generic experience

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:46:01 +0000

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora presents a gorgeous Pandora to explore, but an uninspired storyline and repetitive combat drags down the experience. Read more...

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's Far Cry-like open world gameplay revealed, out December 7

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:06:01 +0000

Ubisoft gave a deeper look at Massive's upcoming game set in James Cameron's Avatar universe at its Forward presentation. The first-person open world title is an action-packed journey set in Pandora. Read more...

Microsoft Teams 3D avatars are finally available in public preview

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:20:01 +0000

The 3D avatars, which were first announced way back in November 2021, are now available for Teams users in a public preview, before they get released in general availability in May. Read more...

Minecraft gets new Avatar Legends DLC

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:14:01 +0000

The new DLC brings more than 50 new skins - including iconic Avatar characters - and a host of other content as well as a multiplayer mode to keep fans of the Avatar universe engaged. Read more...

Ubisoft delays its Avatar game 'Frontiers of Pandora' out of 2022

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:26:01 +0000

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment's action-adventure game based on James Cameron's film franchise, Avatar, has ditched its earlier plans and is now aiming for a launch sometime in 2023 or 2024. Read more...

You'll soon be able to customize your avatars using Meta's digital store

Anushe Fawaz — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:56:02 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a digital clothing store for Meta users to dress their avatars with branded clothing. Creative individuals will now be able to buy and sell personalized outfits too. Read more...

Ubisoft gives a first look at its Avatar game 'Frontiers of Pandora'

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:40:01 +0000

The Massive Entertainment-developed Avatar game based on the James Cameron movie finally received a reveal trailer today at Ubisoft Forward. The first-person game is coming out sometime in 2022. Read more...

You can now send someone an app or avatar as a gift through Microsoft Store

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:10:01 +0000

Microsoft announced today that it is now possible to purchase apps and avatars from the Store and send them as a gift to your friends. The digital gifting program still has some limitations, though. Read more...

Create a full realistic 3D avatar of yourself with Kinect for Windows v2

Andy Weir — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:48:23 +0000

You can now create a more realistic 3D model of yourself that can be inserted into games, using software designed to take advantage of Microsoft's Kinect for Windows v2 motion tracking sensor. Read more...

Minority Report-like avatar coming to New York airports

John Callaham — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:15:09 +0000

New York City's Port Authority has announced that in early July, it will install "virtual customer care representatives" at the Newark, JFK and LaGuardia airports. Read more...

Microsoft to remove all gun avatar items from Xbox Live?

John Callaham — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:12:53 +0000

A post by Epic Games' community manager claims that after January 1, Microsoft will remove all gun-like items for Xbox Live avatar props for sale for the Xbox 360 console. Read more...

Microsoft Research reveal new Kinect avatar technology

Byron Hinson — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:45:20 +0000

Now that Microsoft has managed to ship close to 10 million Xbox 360 Kinect devices around the world, the research side of the company are working on new ways to really push the device to... Read more...

Microsoft announces Avatar Kinect

Brad Sams — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:52:21 +0000

At the Microsoft Keynote event at CES 2011, Microsoft took the wraps off Avatar Kinect. The platform offers a new way to interact with friends and family using the popular Kinect device which Microsoft also... Read more...

Microsoft announces 8 million Kinect units sold, 50 million Xbox 360's sold

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:10:35 +0000

Today Steve Ballmer took the stage tooting the success Microsoft last year, prompting good sales of the Xbox 360 Kinect, Windows Phone 7, Office 2010, Office 365, Bing and their Azure services. 2010 was a... Read more...

Avatar claims title of most pirated Blu-ray movie ever

giga — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:20:02 +0000

In addition to the movie box offices, James Cameron’s Avatar has seen been seeing strong success on the piracy shores. Since last week’s Blu-ray release, the $237 million dollar film has been downloaded far more... Read more...

How Avatar can help push 3D HDTV sales

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:13:35 +0000

One of the biggest announces this year at CES2010 was the introduction of many new 3D HDTV sets. Six of the largest television makers including Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Vizio and LG have all... Read more...

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.6 released!

Spencer Scott — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:11:50 +0000

Stardock has released its first major update to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar. The award winning strategy game has garnered universally positive reviews since its release but Stardock's update not only addresses minor bugs and... Read more...

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar goes gold

Todd Tanner — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:56:48 +0000

January 31, 2006 – Stardock Entertainment announced today that Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, the ambitious expansion to the company's hit strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, has gone gold. Would-be ... Read more...

Galactic Civilization II: Dark Avatar Hands-on

Marcel Klum — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:24:41 +0000

2006 might not have been the best year for some PC genres, but for strategy gamers, it was awesome. 2006 saw the release of plenty of great city-builders, RTS games and turn-based strategy titles. Even... Read more...

Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar delayed, but expanded

Todd Tanner — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:03:54 +0000

Our very own Brad Wardell aka Frogboy announced on the official GalCiv II website that Dark Avatar, the expansion for the highly acclaimed (and still Starforce and copy protection free! ) Galactic Civilizations II: Dread... Read more...