Sea of Thieves Season Seven Community Day is set to come ashore on Sept. 17. As a Talk Like a Pirate Day special, the event will offer rewards available across the weekend, with in-game and out-of-game surprises for your pirating pleasure. “This latest Community Day will feature a generous Renown boost from the very beginning,…
Month: September 2022
Multi-player votes and in-depth narrative choices set As Dusk Falls apart
When As Dusk Falls debuted in July, it culminated eight years of conceptualization and introduced an independent studio. It also showed off a video game in which hundreds of people can play together across platforms – and through their collective choices, create different outcomes for the characters in an interactive crime drama that spans three decades. This is…
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25201
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25201 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are releasing ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded here. We are beginning to rollout expanded view for Widgets. We’re beginning the roll out to a small set of Insiders in the Dev Channel first…
Selling your Car – When to say ‘No’ to a deal you’re not happy with
Amongst the hype surrounding selling your car, all the marketing signs point towards, “getting the […]
WebView2 is now Generally Available for WinUI 2 (UWP) apps
With the recent release of WinUI 2.8, WebView2 is now Generally Available for desktop UWP apps. Support for this platform was a top ask from our WebView2 customers, and we’re thrilled to provide a stable platform offering for customers to build and ship production apps for UWP with WebView2. PowerApps is one of the first…
Journey to the irradiated remnants of Pittsburgh in Fallout 76: The Pitt
Fallout 76’s Expeditions update is here, inviting players to go beyond the borders of post-nuclear Appalachia and explore new territory. “Go on a journey to The Pitt, a city built upon the irradiated remnants of Pittsburgh that players first encountered in 2009 as downloadable content for Fallout 3,” writes Parker Wilhelm, PR and marketing content…
How We Approach Safety and Privacy in Community Chats
Community Chats in Messenger and Facebook allow people to connect more deeply with communities in real time around the topics they care about via text, audio or video. Messenger already helps more than a billion people stay connected to friends and family, and this feature helps people also connect with communities over shared interests. Since…
Introducing Community Chats: Connecting Your Community in Real Time on Messenger and Facebook
We’ve helped more than a billion people connect with loved ones in a trusted space on Messenger, and we know that people want to engage in real time with larger communities over shared interests. Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’ll begin testing the ability for people to start Community Chats in Messenger in the coming weeks,…
Building an Ecosystem to Foster Future Technologies and Innovation
Today, along with Meity Startup Hub, we’re launching our XR Start-up Program to boost the extended reality ecosystem in India and help build the foundation for the metaverse. This program will help shape the ecosystem for emerging technologies — including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in the country. According to a recent study…
AWS Week In Review – September 12, 2022
I am working from London, UK, this week to record sessions for the upcoming Innovate EMEA online conference—more about this in a future Week In Review. While I was crossing the channel, I took the time to review what happened on AWS last week. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention:…