Microsoft launches free design and software development program for students

As Apple continues to believe growth among youth, Microsoft believes it is necessary to keep up with the demographics. Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday that the software giant will offer free access to its design and development tools up to one billion of students, [...]

PC Gaming Alliance: Activision, AMD, Dell, Epic Games, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others

As for the first time last week, the leaders in the PC industry are joining in an effort to maintain and advance the PC games. Announced today, the PC Gaming Alliance is a nonprofit organization that unites the creators of hardware [...]

Jack Thompson is another opportunity to blame games

It did not much for Florida attorney Jack Thompson to play video link to the tragic slaughter of the University of Northern Illinois.
Fox News recently hosted Thompson, where he proceeded to pin the NIU shooter Steven Kazmierczak the violent actions of the games. Thompson began, “We [...]

Microsoft opens the door for XP SP3 RC2

While Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has received the most attention during the past few months, there is another package of service expected by users of Windows: Windows XP SP3.
SP3 Microsoft released last week to the testers, but the general public can now download Service [...]

SP1 for Windows Vista shines in some areas and in other introducing inconsistencies

Many Windows customers are excited about finally getting their hands on the first Windows Vista service pack, SP1, which promised to deliver not only bugfixes, but performance upgrades. After a slow release schedule, Microsoft picked up the pace and made plans to [...]

The long-awaited date receives a Spore

One of the most anticipated games in the history of PC games sat in the development of an eternity undated known until today. Finally revealed through a special trailer on the official website of spores is the official date of launch of Maxis’ latest innovation.
He said just in [...]

Microsoft backpedals delay in the release, said that this month will release SP1 to select developers

Despite announcing that SP1 for Windows Vista was completed and released to manufacturing, Microsoft angered many IT professionals when it said that it would not be releasing products until March. Microsoft said that by contrast only releasing the RTM [...]

Halo and gears of war are far scare the casual players, said Microsoft

The DICE Summit, Microsoft Game Studios VP corporate Shame Kim placed at the disposal of a conference session, recorded by Gamasutra, in response to many questions surrounding the Xbox business.
One of the biggest blows to Microsoft in 2007 was the loss [...]

Developers of games are like flowers, Say EA

Electronic Arts has a reputation among players for swallowing talented game developers only to later convert them into excrement. EA CEO John Riccitiello know, and told Game | Life on the DICE, “which flew at EA, and to an extent I was involved in these things, [...]

Microsoft Service Pack love extends to testers

Microsoft announced last week that the job was completed on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and released to manufacturing. Unfortunately for consumers, Microsoft also announced that the update would not be available to consumers until around March.
However, beta testers for SP1 will be happy to know [...]