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May 27, 2014

Master Chief, welcome to the ‘Halo’ mash-up pack for ‘Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition’

The pack, which is $3.99, includes a “Halo”-themed texture set, themed menus and user interface and 31 music tracks across the “Halo” franchise. Also available are 40 character skins depicting beloved “Halo” characters such as Master Chief, Cortana, Sergeant Johnson, Arbiter and more.

May 27, 2014

Workshop discusses big data’s role in responding to catastrophic events

Supporting humanitarian relief and disaster management efforts has become part of Microsoft’s commitment to developing technology solutions, tools and practices that can foster social and economic change. This includes deploying emergency connectivity kits, enabling communications for aid workers and first responders, or developing mapping tools and imagery to enhance response organizations’ analysis and resource deployment planning.

May 27, 2014

Use Chicago as a weapon in ‘WATCH_DOGS’ – now available on Xbox One and Xbox 360

You’ll be able to monitor and hack everyone around you while manipulating Chicago’s systems to stop traffic lights, download personal information and turn off the electrical grid. Use the city of Chicago as your ultimate weapon and exact your own style of revenge.

May 27, 2014

The artwork behind ‘Child of Light’: Bringing a fairy tale to life

“Child of Light,” a game envisioned as a “playable poem” by its creators, is critically acclaimed for its artwork, an homage to the Golden Age of illustration from 1900 until the start of World War I.

May 27, 2014

Disney reimagines Sega Genesis classic ‘Castle of Illusion’ for Windows Phone, PCs and tablets

Play as Mickey Mouse in Disney’s reimagining of “Castle of Illusion” – a Sega Genesis classic now on Windows Phone, PCs and tablets. The evil witch Mizrabel has kidnapped Minnie Mouse and taken her to the castle, where Mickey must seek her out.

May 27, 2014

‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ and ‘Star Trek’ among this week’s big Deals with Gold

“Aliens: Colonial Marines,” which pits players against the universe’s ultimate alien killing machines – the Xenomorphs – is just one of the many discounted Deals with Gold games this week for Xbox Live Gold members.

May 27, 2014

Give kids a taste of cooking and fashionable styling with Toca Kitchen and Toca Hair Salon 2 apps

Do your kids like playing grown-up? Then they’ll love the Toca Kitchen and Toca Hair Salon 2 apps for Windows PCs and tablets.

May 27, 2014

Visual Studio’s new Productivity Power Tools 2013 feature lets you make better use of your vertical real estate

Syntactic line compression shrinks lines that contain neither letters nor numbers by 25 percent vertically, allowing more lines to be displayed in the editor. Other lines are not affected.

May 27, 2014

Winners, finalists of 2014 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards announced

This year, 46 awards focus on core partner competencies, including cloud technology; Windows 8, Office and SharePoint applications; public sector; citizenship; and sales excellence. More than 2,800 entries were collected from more than 117 countries.

May 27, 2014

Developers: Find out how to resolve crashes and failures in Windows Store apps

The Windows Reliability/Windows Error Reporting team has written a blog post that gives Windows Store app developers the most common failures seen in the Windows Error Reporting (WER) telemetry across multiple Windows Store apps, and provides recommendations for how to avoid them.