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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during his report on Tuesday, October 25, said that the company's cloud service Cloud Gaming already has more than 20 million users. This figure has doubled since the beginning of the year, when Microsoft and Epic Games started working on adding Fortnite to the service library.
Microsoft has confirmed that Age of Empires II Definitive Edition and Age of Empires IV will be released on their console.
Microsoft is now working on a new program called PC Manager, which is designed to improve device performance, similar to CCleraner.
In its tweet, Osidian Entertainment said that the role-playing game Pentiment went "for gold".
Microsoft has released a software update on the Xbox Series X and S that improves the quality of life and brings small changes that you'll notice the next time you play a game.
Now various regulators are investigating the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and in the course of such investigations a lot of interesting information follows. We recently learned that Microsoft is developing its own game store for mobile devices.
Gotham Knight will be released in just a few days. The developers have previously shared the minimum hardware requirements and now published the recommended ones.
Microsoft is adding its Xbox Elite 2 controllers to the Xbox Design Lab, which means you can now order a custom color version of the Elite 2. It will cost $149.99. There's also the option to purchase individual Elite accessory packs, or the entire set for $209.99.
Microsoft has announced the list of games that will be included in the Xbox Game Pass collections from October 20 to 27. In total, it will be 8 projects. It also became known about the games that will leave the service. It will also be 8 titles, all of them will disappear from the library on October 31.
Gotham Knights was originally scheduled for release on last generation consoles as well, but then the development team dropped it to give gamers a "better gaming experience," but as it turns out, things aren't so easy with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S either - the game won't have performance settings there and will only run at 30 fps.
Microsoft has begun testing a new version of its Xbox for Windows software with support for devices on ARM mobile chips. Apparently, this update was timed to coincide with the announcement of Surface Pro X and Surface Pro 9 based on the SQ3 processor.
While Dendy, Sega Megadrive and even PlayStation One came with two gamepads at once, today's game consoles come with only one. To play games with two friends sitting next to each other on the same couch, you will definitely need a second joystick. In addition, for some games it is desirable to have a highly specialized controller, such as a steering wheel for auto racing. To quickly download games from the Internet of 100+ GB each you need a fast Wi-Fi router. To store all these games, an additional SSD, preferably internal rather than external (not all games can be launched from an external one). And in order to protect the console and TV from power surges, it would be reasonable to get a voltage regulator.
Microsoft in a recent statement to the British competition regulator (CMA) said that it wanted to add its Game Pass service to PlayStation, but Sony "blocked" this proposal. This was told by The Verge editor Tom Warren.
Apple Music has finally appeared as a separate program in the Microsoft Store. Xbox users can try the program today, but Windows users will have to wait until next year.
Microsoft is launching its Xbox Cloud Gaming platform on Meta Quest VR. The two companies announced the partnership at Meta's Connect event on Tuesday, Oct. 11, but have not yet announced a release date.
