It's been a reasonably packed week for Microsoft, with not only Patch Tuesday rolling around, but also the announcement of a Minecraft AR title, as well as an unlikely partnership with Sony.
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25 year-old with a Bachelor's in Nutrition & Dietetics; formerly in Art School.
Set up my personal blog in 2008, where I wrote all manner of things until I decided to discontinue it in 2012. To scratch my writing itch and combine it with my love of Trance music, I accepted an invitation to write for Vând Sunete, a music blog set up by a friend. All these years later, I'm still writing reviews over there, and on a similar publication, TranceMag, where I'm also in charge of editing and graphics creation.
Have been active on Neowin since about 2012, so when a post was put up requesting applications to write for the site, I jumped on the occasion. Since I'm pretty much the tech person in the house, I thought this would give me an opportunity to not only learn more about the ins and out of technology beyond what I already knew, but to basically give back to the community for being so welcoming all these years. The rest is pretty much (post) history.
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As part of the 10 year anniversary celebrations of Minecraft's first public version, Mojang has unveiled Minecraft Earth. The free-to-play mobile AR title will kick off its closed beta this summer.
With E3 2019 less than a month away, Sony and Microsoft have announced a partnership that seeks to use both companies' strengths in cloud, AI, and superconductors for game and content streaming.
Build 2019 was held at the top of the week, which means the flow of news has been constant. Azure, Edge on other platforms, AR Minecraft, and much more. Be sure to catch up via the guide below.
Gaming news was present quite a bit this week, accompanied by some info about patches, new Edgium builds, and much more. Be sure to catch up via the handy guide that awaits you herein.
A rather interesting proof of concept for a phishing attack, dubbed the 'inception bar' has been discovered by developer James Fisher, and has been demonstrated to work on Chrome mobile.
To celebrate the upcoming Elsweyr expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls Online, Xbox Game Pass is organizing a giveaway via Twitter of an Xbox One X, plus a year of Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold.
As another week comes to an end, we take a look at Microsoft's Q3 2019 results, a few changes related to the May 2019 Update, and the death of Sets. Be sure to catch up via the handy guide below.
Celebrating the one year anniversary of its adventure title Sea of Thieves, Rare has unveiled its Anniversary Edition a little early. Coming in at $49.99, it is available now in the Microsoft Store.
In response to Ubisoft giving away the title for free on Uplay, Unity's recent Steam review score jumped up to 'Very Positive'. As a reminder, for those interested, the giveaway runs until April 25.
Since it's the end of the week, we should look back on what's happened, including the announcement of Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, 32-bit Edgium previews, and more. Be sure to catch up below.
Joining Facebook itself, it appears as though the passwords of millions of Instagram users were also being stored in a 'readable format', though no improper use was determined to have taken place.