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Corsair Cove preview: Pirate city builder impresses with its vertical scale and logistics

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:01 +0000

The city building space is being invaded by the pirate-themed entry Corsair Cove. The Limbic Entertainment game had us creating a vertical city in this hands-on preview. Read more...

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn hands-on: Owlcat is coming for Mass Effect's sci-fi RPG crown

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:02 +0000

We got an early look at the new Expanse RPG, checking out a spinning space station, zero-G combat with magboots, companions, and more. Read more...

Exploring iOS 26: 9 things you'll notice after installing iOS 26 on your iPhone

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:00:01 +0000

iOS 26 is now up and running on iPhones. Here are some things you'll notice right after installing the update on your device. Read more...

The Outer Worlds 2 hands-on preview: Obsidian's next RPG looks and feels phenomenal

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:01 +0000

Obsidian Entertainment's next major RPG, The Outer Worlds 2, is just a few months away, and we managed to get our hands on it to give you our impressions. Read more...

South of Midnight hands on: The next action platformer from Xbox shows a lot of soul

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:00:01 +0000

Compulsion Games' next project is finally out soon, and we got to play a slice of the action platformer a little early. Here are our thoughts on this first-party Xbox game. Read more...

New Teams Preview feature lets you pop out Chat, Copilot and Notes panes

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:58:01 +0000

Microsoft is rolling out a new preview feature for Teams that lets you pop out Chat, Notes, and Copilot side panes. Read more...

ICYMI: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 Preview 1 is available

Paul Hill — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:12:02 +0000

Microsoft, this week, released the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 with an emphasis on AI, stability, security, and productivity. Learn what's new here. Read more...

Battlefield 2042 Season 7 hands-on preview: A Haven for destruction and urban warfare fans

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:00:01 +0000

DICE has a proper urban warfare map incoming to Battlefield 2042 with Season 7. Here's what we thought of the new 64-player map, the fresh weapons, and other aspects as part of a hands-on preview. Read more...

Battlefield 2042 Season 6 hands-on preview: A proper meat grinder map is finally here

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:00:02 +0000

The Redacted map for Battlefield 2042 is delivering the much-needed Operation Metro and Locker meat grinder experience to the shooter. Here's our thoughts on the new map and content of Season 6. Read more...

Battlefield 2042 Season 5 hands-on preview: Another step forward, but is this the end?

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:00:01 +0000

Battlefield 2042 - Season 5: New Dawn is right around the corner, and we got to test out the new content a little early. Here's our thoughts on the new content drop, and the future of the game. Read more...

Microsoft Teams Premium preview now available with free 30-day trial

Rahul Naskar — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:06:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Teams Premium is now available as a preview for its commercial customers. It is also offering a free 30-day trial, meaning you can try it now without paying a fee. Read more...

Microsoft is now testing link unfurling in Outlook

Usama Jawad — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has begun testing a new UX enhancement called link unfurling in Outlook. It allows email recipients to do more with a link through rich actionable cards, without leaving Outlook. Read more...

The new Outlook for Windows experience is now rolling out for all Office Insiders

Usama Jawad — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has begun rolling out the new One Outlook for Windows app to all Office Insiders. Over the past few months, the company has also added new features on top of what it introduced in May. Read more...

Xbox App for Windows update eliminates Cloud Gaming UI freezes and delays

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 05:58:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a new preview version of Xbox App for Windows. Xbox Insiders who download it should notice a bunch of issues—related to Cloud Gaming—that cause freezes, have been fixed. Read more...

Company of Heroes 3 pre-alpha returns with another week of free access

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:46:02 +0000

Relic Entertainment is continuing its Company of Heroes 3 'COH-Development' program with another pre-alpha session. This one is also running for a week and pre-loads are available now. Read more...

Microsoft's new feedback portal for Teams is now in preview

Usama Jawad — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:22:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest feedback portal is now live for users as a preview. Currently, it has dedicated sections for Edge and Teams, but will expand to cover other Microsoft 365 services and Windows. Read more...

Office LTSC and Office 2021 for Mac are now available for commercial preview

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the commercial preview of the next perpetual release of Office, which will be Office 2021. It's available now for both Windows and Mac, and it has a few new features. Read more...

Microsoft announces more Azure tools and infrastructure improvements at Inspire

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:00:13 +0000

During the Inspire digital event today, Microsoft revealed a number of enhancements it is making to the infrastructure and tools on its Azure cloud platform, including the next-gen Azure Stack HCI. Read more...

Microsoft unveils Flight Simulator Feature Discovery Series, updates development roadmap

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:22:01 +0000

The Feature Discovery Series for Microsoft's upcoming Flight Simulator series has finally kicked off, while an updated development roadmap highlighting October deliverables has been released as well. Read more...

Revamped look for Power BI Mobile is now available

Hamza Jawad — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:52:01 +0000

The new look for Power BI Mobile includes a new home page with the ability to use your organization brand's theme, and a revamped navigation bar. It's available in the form of a public preview. Read more...

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Data Explorer are now generally available

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 23:54:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that both Gen2 of Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available. Furthermore, a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Data Factory is also live. Read more...

Microsoft releases Windows UI Library Preview for UWP app developers

Usama Jawad — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the release of the Windows UI Library Preview, which facilitates UWP app developers by cutting ties with SDK releases, and opting for more flexibility using NuGet packages. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Gaming sloop, preview group, hardware soup

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:08:01 +0000

A pre-E3 week full of gaming news, some tidbits about hardware and a couple of acquisitions: one rumored, one that's already been agreed upon. Be sure to catch up via our handy guide below. Read more...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 2 now available for download

Abhay V — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 2. Along with a few fixes, the new features include automatic updates for sideloaded APPX packages, TypeScript 2.8 inclusion and more. Read more...

Microsoft rolls out Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 1

Steven Parker — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:24:02 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 1. Among the release highlights is inclusion of Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin which can now automatically install missing Android API levels. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Previews ready, gaming not so heavy, patch spaghetti

Florin Bodnarescu — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:18:01 +0000

From previews for everyone and everything, to bodies of water of a thieving nature, to patches of the greatest variety, there's been a lot of Microsoft news this week. Catch up with our handy guide. Read more...

Microsoft is creating individual preview programs for Windows 10 apps

Rich Woods — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 16:22:01 +0000

Microsoft has begun rolling out a feature for several of its Windows 10 apps, which allow the user to enroll in an app preview program, allowing the user to test new features for just that app. Read more...

Microsoft releases MSN News beta for Android and iOS

Craig Mu — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a new MSN News beta app for Android and iOS. The app features a complete design overhaul and includes a bunch of new features to help make the news-reading experience better. Read more...

Visual Studio Live Share enables instant collaboration between Studio, Code

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:30:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Live Share, which allows you to instantly collaborate on code between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Private preview kicks off Q1 2018. U.S. only. Read more...

Unboxing the Google Home Mini

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:30:02 +0000

We take a look at the Google Home Mini, the smallest and most affordable offering in the firm's lineup of new smart speakers announced last week. The Google Home Mini will be available on October 18. Read more...

MysticThumbs 4.5.3

Razvan Serea — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:56:02 +0000

Windows Explorer thumbnail generator for PSD, TGA, DDS, RAW camera, color management, XMP extraction, Fully configurable options via control panel, Unicode support, optimized, x86 and x64 support. Read more...

MysticThumbs 4.5.1 [Update]

Razvan Serea — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:46:01 +0000

Microsoft is killing off GigJam, before it leaves preview

Usama Jawad — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it's killing off its GigJam tool which allowed people to involve others in their professional work by breaking down "artificial barriers between devices, apps and people". Read more...

Microsoft endorses Google's Brotli compression algorithm, announces alpha preview for .NET

Usama Jawad — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:34:02 +0000

Microsoft has conducted tests, such as the Weissman Score introduced by the TV show Silicon Valley, on Google's Brotli. It's endorsed the compression algorithm and announced an alpha preview for .NET. Read more...

MysticThumbs 4.4.3

Razvan Serea — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:34:01 +0000

A more personalized service health dashboard comes to Azure in preview form

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:12:02 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled a new feature called Azure Service Health, which provides a more personalized report about issues affecting Azure resources you are using. It's available now in preview. Read more...

Microsoft expands FastTrack to include Azure, available in preview starting August 1st

Florin Bodnarescu — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:52:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced an expansion to its FastTrack program to help businesses adopt the firm's cloud offerings. The preview for Azure kicks off August 1st in the US, Canada and Australia. Read more...

Google launches preview of Android Things Console

Usama Jawad — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 07:10:01 +0000

Google has announced the preview of Android Things Console. It allows easier software management, an enhanced OTA update system for apps and the OS, and the creation of factory images for IoT devices. Read more...

SageThumbs 2.0.0.23

Razvan Serea — Tue, 09 May 2017 09:12:02 +0000

SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer. Read more...

MysticThumbs 4.3.7

Razvan Serea — Thu, 04 May 2017 16:08:01 +0000