Month: July 2013

“Crackdown” pushes the action genre to new levels with a 3D-persistent playground, innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system. It will be free starting Thursday, through Aug. 15. Then, starting Aug. 16, both “Dead Rising 2”and “Dead Rising 2: Case Zero,” the predecessors to “Dead Rising 3,” will be available for free until the end of month to Xbox Live Gold members.

What kind of multiplayer experience can you expect this fall when “Call of Duty: Ghosts” launches worldwide? Find out Wednesday, August 14 at 10:30 a.m. PT when Larry Hryb (Xbox Live’s Major Nelson) and Kate Yeager host a live broadcast on Xbox Live with the team at Infinity Ward.

People around the world: Forget about joining hands. Just fire up the new UNO & Friends game app for Windows Phone 8 and compete for global dominance with a worldwide community of fans. It’s a brilliant way to enjoy this classic card game in multiplayer global glory.

What if you were getting married, and one of your most cherished guests might not be able to see it happen? Unfortunately, Michaela Murphy and her fiancé Gregg had to face that very situation. Not too long ago, being able to fulfill that wish might have been impossible – or been incredibly challenging, to say the least. But the couple was able to share their big moment with someone very special to them, and they used Skype to do it.

Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry calls the new Microsoft Developer Network site a “major update to the MSDN home page” that gives users a more modern place to go to find out everything they want to know about developing for Microsoft platforms.

Microsoft concentrated “2012 R2” efforts on enabling service providers to build out a highly-available, highly-scalable IaaS infrastructure.

Your Xbox 360 experience just got a lot funnier with the addition of two of the most-watched TV brands in the U.S.: Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. With Comedy Central, Xbox Live Gold members in the U.S. can watch stand-up comedy until their sides split. Unlimited access to the CC: Stand-Up library means you can enjoy more than 6,000 videos from 700 of the funniest comedians on the planet.