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December 10, 2013

BlueHat v13 will educate developers, execs about current and emerging security threats

This year’s BlueHat will start with a focus “on the threat landscape, learning about determined adversaries to help us defend our own network and assets, and tools to detect and mitigate attacks,” writes Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist for the Microsoft Security Response Center, on the BlueHat Blog.

December 10, 2013

‘Thief’ steps out of the shadows in ‘Channeling the Primal’ trailer

In the new trailer for the “Thief” game, players get a glimpse of what turns Garrett, the protagonist, into the reluctant hero the city needs as it descends into fear and oppression.

December 9, 2013

Lara Croft is back in ‘Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition’

Reborn and rebuilt for the post-Angelina Jolie generation on Xbox One, the “Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition” prequel takes players back to Lara Croft’s first adventure, where she shows off archery skills that rival that of Katniss Everdeen’s, to try to survive her first adventure on a dangerous island.

December 9, 2013

Christmas Eve: Watch for Santa and for Xbox One release of ‘Halo: Spartan Assault’

The same day that Santa Claus will be working his way down chimneys, Dec. 24, a new version of “Halo: Spartan Assault” comes to Xbox One via a digital download priced at $14.99, Xbox Wire reports. Even better, fans who bought “Halo: Spartan Assault” for Windows 8 devices or Windows Phone 8 before Dec. 15 have a gift in store – they’ll be eligible to purchase the Xbox One version of the game at the discounted price of $4.99.

December 9, 2013

New business apps for Windows 8.1 boost productivity, security

Some of the apps are about workplace collaboration; others about sharing a cloud-based educational curriculum, and there are many, many more for Windows 8.1, all of them enterprise grade, writes Sanket Akerkar, vice president, Developer and Platform Evangelism group.

December 9, 2013

Hideo Kojima talks Kiefer Sutherland, ‘Metal Gear Solid V’ for Xbox One

Kiefer Sutherland will join the “Metal Gear” franchise to help “raise the bar” when it comes to bringing even more expressiveness in voice and facial performance to “match the capabilities of the hardware,” Hideo Kojima, legendary creator of the “Metal Gear Solid” franchise, tells Xbox Wire in this exclusive interview.

December 9, 2013

iSwarm app for Windows Phone: A single dashboard for all your social networks

iSwarm is a new app exclusively on Windows Phone that lets you search and browse content from all your social networks within one dashboard. Create a “watchlist” for a topic, and the app will aggregate posts from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube into a single feed.

December 9, 2013

Xbox blockbuster games, from ‘Titanfall’ to ‘Grand Theft Auto V,’ win big at VGX 2013

It was award-o-rama for Xbox games over the weekend, named as the best games of 2013 at VGX 2013, the next generation of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards.

December 9, 2013

Make and share collages and memes with Socl Windows Phone app

Socl is the free Windows Phone 8 companion app to the new social networking service from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs that gives you the ability to quickly create image collages, animated memes and so much more – and share them with your friends and family.

December 9, 2013

New security features added to Microsoft accounts

Over the next couple of days Microsoft is rolling out new capabilities – based on your ongoing feedback – that give you more visibility and control of your Microsoft account.