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June 6, 2014

New PC drivers for the Xbox One controller are now available for download, offering PC gamers a better way to play using the Xbox One controller, Major Nelson wrote Thursday in a blog post.

June 6, 2014

Joel Willans, editor of Connects and self-described “lover of Lumias,” knows that many of us have summer on the brain. Still, if you’re not already too busy soaking up rays, and want to add some excellent games to your Windows Phone, he’s got 10 top picks for you.

June 6, 2014

The award, bestowed by the German publishers and booksellers association, is an annually awarded international prize and considered one of Europe’s most prestigious honors.

June 6, 2014

When Ester Ambrose, a young governess, inherits a family mansion in London in 1830, the incredible – and incredibly intricate – adventures begin as she passes through the massive iron gates in the new hidden-object game, “Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres,” free for Windows tablets and PCs.

June 6, 2014

In Disney’s “Words of Wonder,” free for Windows Phone, tablets and PCs, Watson the Owl needs your help, big-time. He has to fight the grey curse and restore color to his storybook world.

June 5, 2014

Red Stripe Deals are available every Thursday, and give you a 50 percent (or more) savings for six popular apps and games for Windows. The latest set includes a cross-platform messaging app, a surrealistic puzzle game and the evil counterpart to the “Doodle God” games.

June 5, 2014

Swiss company SenseFLY Ltd. makes civilian mini-drones and software for the accurate mapping of mining sites, quarries, forests, construction sites and crops, and the Surface Pro has been instrumental in helping the company do its work.

June 5, 2014

At Cincinnati Country Day School in Ohio, the first school in the U.S. to adopt Surface Pro 3 as its 1:1 student computing device, OneNote plays a key role in giving students a central place for compiling their research and notes, as well as their drawings using the Surface Pro 3 pen.

June 5, 2014

Companies such as Freak’n Genius, the Seattle-based company behind YAKit, have already had the chance to try the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor through its Developer Preview Program. “It’s so magical, honestly,” says Kyle Kesterson, Freak’n Genius founder. “We put people in front of it, and they light up without even having to do anything.”

June 5, 2014

There are several ways you can follow what’s happening with Xbox at E3, but for those in the Los Angeles area, we’ve now got some more details about Major Nelson’s event at the Microsoft Store in Century City on Sunday, June 8, where access to the Xbox E3 media briefing on Monday, June 9, will be raffled off.