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August 15, 2014

Liven up your Windows Phone Lock screen with new app

With Live Lock Screen BETA, you can personalize your lock screen with six layouts, and also rotate a variety of background images throughout the day. You can even align the background image to the daily photo on the Bing home page.

August 14, 2014

Use GroupMe to connect with your peeps and share photos, videos

Whenever you’re planning something with a group of folks, the deluge of emails and text messages can be overwhelming. So, consider trying Microsoft’s GroupMe app, which organizes conversations about an event or topic into one place and lets everyone contribute through words, videos (including YouTube), tweets and Instagram.

August 14, 2014

How Skype can make your long-distance relationship feel less far away

If you’re off to college, or have taken a job in another city, and are separated from your significant other, Skype can make it easy to bridge the distance gap in several ways, and not just with video calling, writes Shana Pearlman.

August 14, 2014

‘Evolve’ Distillery map is a bot battleground with 4-versus-1 gameplay

2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios, developers of “Evolve,” gave attendees of the Xbox Media Showcase at gamescom 2014 a chance to try out the game’s unique four-versus-one hunt gameplay on a brand new map: Distillery.

August 14, 2014

Take your shot: Free-to-play ‘Pinball FX2’ now available for Xbox One

With the download, you’ll get the Star Wars Pinball table packs, a selection of Marvel Pinball tables including the recently released Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool tables, and Zen’s original roster of tables available for purchase, with future tables, including The Walking Dead Pinball, coming to Xbox One Aug. 28.

August 14, 2014

Hurry! Don’t miss this week’s Deals with Gold, including ‘Titanfall’ and ‘EA Sports UFC’ for Xbox One

“Titanfall,” “EA Sports UFC” and “Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes” are among this week’s Deals with Gold for Xbox One, with discounts of between 33 and 50 percent good through Aug. 18.

August 14, 2014

Hands-on training and offers can help you build Unity games for Windows

With the recent release of Unity version 4.5.3, Unity now supports universal Windows apps, saving valuable time for developers who are now able to use much of the same code to deliver games for both Windows and Windows Phone. Microsoft has hands-on training and offers that can also help developers bring games to those platforms.

August 14, 2014

‘Assassin’s Creed: Unity’ demo at gamescom 2014 displays exploration and evisceration features

A demo of “Assassin’s Creed: Unity” provides a taste of the game’s “mission-molding approach,” but it also just scratches the surface of this new, free-form philosophy, writes Xbox Wire.

August 14, 2014

‘Mush’ and free ‘Castle Raid 2’ among latest Red Stripe Deals

Every Thursday, the Red Stripe Deals gives you savings of at least 50 percent off games and apps in the Windows and Windows Phone Stores. This week’s set includes a puzzle adventure through beautiful worlds, defending a castle against magical enemies, and an app that provides details on solar flares, geomagnetic storms and solar radiation.

August 14, 2014

ID@Xbox reveals exclusive games coming to Xbox One, from ‘SMITE’ to ‘The Escapist’

ID@Xbox, the self-publishing program for independent developers, was quite the hit at gamescom 2014 this week, as fans saw some of the exciting games coming their way, including “SMITE,” “Space Engineers,” “SUPERHOT,” “Ghost of a Tale” and “The Escapist.”