20 Mar
Microsoft revealed DirectX 12 today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, claiming it will be able to work across all Microsoft platforms. DirectX 12 will also allow developers a lower level access to hardware and will “spread the workload on the CPU and GPU”, to better balance threads resulting in a performance increase, […]
18 Mar
Chief Product Officer of Xbox, Marc Whitten, is leaving Microsoft to join Sonos as its Chief Product Officer. The news was announced today on Microsoft’s Xbox Wire. “I have had the extreme pleasure over the last 14 years to work on the greatest product with the greatest team and for the greatest community,” Whitten said. […]
14 Mar
Microsoft’s director of product management Albert Penello took to the NeoGAF forums to address rumors claiming that Microsoft was planning to lock out Xbox One controller compatibility on Windows PC. “This is 100% wrong,” Penello wrote, in part. “When the drivers become available, they will work with the existing controllers. There is no plan to […]
25 Feb
Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is taking over control of Microsoft’s Devices and Studios division, which includes Xbox, Surface and the company’s game and entertainment studios, TechCrunch reports. Julie Larson-Green took over the position from Don Mattrick last year, after he left the company to join Zynga. Larson-Green will now be leading the “My Life […]