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Microsoft has released a tease for an upcoming phone, which is heavily rumored to be the Nokia X2. An image was posted on the Nokia Conversations site, entitled “Green with Envy”, which contained only the text, “Summer brings out our inner glow…stay tuned to Conversations to find out what we’ve got in store.”, and a countdown timer, which will end ...

Nokia rolled out a home screen replacement app for Android phones called Z Launcher and reviewers are already praising it to the heavens. It looks similar to the Aviate Launcher, which was recently acquired by Yahoo and what it does is it learns about what kinds of apps you want to launch depending on where you are and what the ...

Microsoft has affirmed their continued support for Rare after Microsoft’s recent decision to stop bundling the Kinect with Xbox One. Phil Harrison, Microsoft Studios Europe chief, told Eurogamer that the company has no plans to abnegate the studio. “I’m very happy to go on record to alleviate any of those concerns you might have. We are very fortunate in having ...

Microsoft Ventures is launching an accelerator for startups to develop home automation technologies and they’re doing it in partnership with the American Family Insurance company. They are offering a $25.000 equity for each startup, which is definitely an interesting decision by them. This seems like a way for Microsoft to make an insurance company feel important and feel like they ...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt demo provided us with a good look at the combat aspect of the game. During the video we saw Geralt of Rivia easily dispatching bandits and cutting them in half. He then came across a griffin and defeated it surprisingly easy, which raised some questions regarding the difficulty of the game. While they don’t hold a candle to Dark ...

When Halo 5: Guardians was announced, fans of the series rejoiced at the return of the critically acclaimed franchise. An image was unveiled, stirring much excitement, but also some questions. The most important being: Who is that? A Spartan 4, the latest version of the Spartan Program in the series introduced in Halo 4, was shown reflecting Master Chief, the ...

According to the NPD results for the month of May, Watch Dogs is holding the number one position when it comes to software sales. Overall sales for the month are considerably higher that they were in May 2013 with consumers spending $274 million just on games. This is a 57% increase from last year when they only spent $175. What’s ...

Microsoft claims that most Android phones infringe on multiple patents, but has never revealed what those patents are. The company could make as much as a billion dollars a year on Android-related patents and wants to keep them secret, but the Chinese government revealed a list of more than 300 Microsoft patents and applications. These are from mobile phone technologies ...

Xbox Live Gold members can get a total of five games absolutely free this month. The Games with Gold feature has been available on the Xbox 360 for a year now, and has recently been added to the Xbox One as well. In order to celebrate the one-year anniversary Microsoft is giving Xbox Live Gold members a bonus free game. The Xbox ...

The PS4 version of Destiny entered its alpha test phase on Friday and was supposed to last only throughout the weekend. However, if you have access to the alpha and try to play it you’ll notice that it’s still possible even though it should be over by now. Bungie came on Twitter earlier today and said that they are extending the ...