If you’re a particular gamer with JRPG tendencies, then you’ll likely appreciate the next bit of news. According to bestwp7games.com, Zebrasqual, an Xbox 360 gamer, started snooping around for signs of new games through achievements lists in Xbox360Achievements. He discovered a...

Microsoft Research has released its very own social network simply labeled So.cl. So.cl was leaked a few months ago under the codename Tulalip, a Native American tribe in the Seattle area. It was rumored to be a site in which students would be able to easily share and collaborate in projects,...

Aero Glass the current Visual style that is built in Windows 7 and Windows Vista has now been kicked out in favor of a new design reminiscent of the Metro design. The new style is a push to get users more comfortable with Metro and make transitions between the Metro Start Screen and the...

John Root a former employee at Remedy who works on Motion Capture and is a Virtual Production specialist was hired to upgrade the ‘Character Pipeline’ for next gen devices, specifically the next Xbox. From the looks of his LinkedIn account it appears as though Remedy was or is...

Microsoft has taken the spot ahead of the iPhone just two month after the Windows Phone Launch in China. HTC, ZTE and Nokia have all made their Windows Phone presence felt at the expense of Apple’s own iPhone. Michel van der Bel, COO Greater China Region at Microsoft states Windows...

A few days ago we wrote an article on Apple’s very own Siri prompting that the Nokia Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever. Today Apple has patched up the response Siri would give when asked “What is the best smartphone ever?”. In order for Siri to find what the best...

You are looking at what is believed to be the box art for Halo 4. Microsoft sent out E-mails earlier today on puzzle pieces of this image. Luckily the Xbox community wasted no time in assembling the cover and gave us this neat surprise. The new art features the Master Chief in his new Spartan...

A few days ago we reported that Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak found the Lumia 900 Windows Phone delightful and better than Android. Today in an article by WMPoweruser we found out that even Apple’s very own SIRI finds the Lumia 900 the best phone in the market. The Lumia 900 has been...

There are going to be some changes on Bing. Big changes, like being completely redesigned. These renovations are suspected to be fueled by modifications Google made a short while ago. So what exactly are these “big changes?” I’m glad you asked. For starters, it’s going...

This week on the Zunited podcast Anna and Josh discuss whether or not Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot with the Apollo update miscommunications. Also, how well is the Nokia Lumia 900 selling? There have also been some really cool updates to some Microsoft services. All this and...

Nokia is slowly but surely bringing in all of its Symbian apps over to Windows Phones…well actually just its Lumia line of phones. If you have a Nokia Windows Phone device then Nokia has a nice little gift for you. City Lens allows you to search locations of interest through augmented...

Are you put off by the idea of paying $100 to get an Xbox 360 with only 4GB storage and a contract that charges you $15 per month, with early termination fees? Well, that isn’t the only significantly cheaper way to get Microsoft’s current home console. Best Buy is selling...

NPD Group just released their findings in the smartphone market for Q1 of 2012. The new stats show an increase for Windows Phone in marketshare to a 2% portion of the market, up from 1.7% from Q4 2011. Even with that increase, the numbers still don’t reflect the introduction of...

A brand new Windows Phone device has just been announced for AT&T. Those supposed leaked images last week of a white Windows Phone device was actually this new Samsung phone named Focus 2. The new phone is almost a direct port of the original Focus, but with a sleeker design and few bits...

UPDATE: It’s rumor no more. The new bundle will go on sale through Microsoft stores. You will have to fork out the $99 initial purchase for the 4GB Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle, and thereafter do a monthly Xbox Live subscription of $14.99. Just like any cellphone plan with carriers,...

This is a new feature where we have guest writers contribute their insight on not-so-familiar stories. It’s an open mic where they can express ideas and thoughts about living in a Microsoft world. Sit back and enjoy some of their stories with us. The following article was written by Nathan...

When I was a little kid, one of the most memorable gaming experiences I ever had was with a game called Blaster Master. For the pitiful uninitiated (meaning too young to know), the game gave you a tank that could scale walls, fly in the air and shoot things. Yet, its most appealing foundation...

We reported a few days ago that Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak wanted a Lumia 900 Windows Phone. Well, in an interview with anewdomain, Wozniak gave huge praises to the Windows Phone OS. True to his word Wozniak was carrying with him a Lumia 900, and a couple of iPhones and a Motorola Droid...

Microsoft promised a few years ago on a new Bing design. One complete with html transitions and the new Metro style that is currently found throughout most other Microsoft products. Although we are not currently looking at the complete design change the new search results page looks a lot...

Nokia Saudi Arabia has just released a major leak that Microsoft would not be too happy about. WMPoweruser has discovered a response tweet from Nokia Saudi Arabia mentioning that the Lumia 900 and Windows Phone 8 in the same sentence. Take a look below at the translation provided from the...

First there was the black and cyan models. Then came the ‘Storm Trooper’ White Lumia 900. Now we have magenta. A Finnish site, Verkkokauppa.com, will be selling the new vibrant color for €589.90 (roughly US$780). All those leaked pictures, and the curious store merchandizing...

The Beta The Ghost Recon Future Soldier Beta has started and has left us impressed with the game. Having played the beta multiplayer for about a week, I got a feeling that Ubisoft has another hit in their hands with the third-person-shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. In the...

Out of left field, Microsoft has taken off app support from the Zune desktop software. You will no longer be able to purchase and download apps pertaining to the Windows Phone ecosystem, although anyone still holding on to their Zune HD can still download the available apps for that device....

After just two days of Skype’s release and the subsequent news of its functionality on low-end Windows Phone devices, Nokia has confirmed that their Lumia 610 will in fact have the Skype app working on it. From Nokia: Skype is available for the Lumia 610 in Marketplace and actually...

There has been a huge debate lately on the possibility of current generation devices for Windows Phone receiving and updating to the Windows Phone 8 OS, aka Apollo. Without a peep from Microsoft about this issue, speculation has run rampant after Paul Thurrott vehemently stated via a...

Recently, Microsoft has made a number of changes to its SkyDrive service. These changes were obviously made to compete with other cloud storage devices. One apparent change is SkyDrive storage space. New SkyDrive members will be given seven gigabytes of storage space, which is more space...

All the good news of the Skype app finally reaching a 1.0 makeover has been sullied by a bummer of a caveat. If you happen to purchase one of those low-end Windows Phone devices, the “Tango” sporting kind, you’ll be left out of the voice/video chat party that is Skype. The...

Concept of Windows Phone 8, by j. Dahnert; the Nokia Lumia 920 under Windows Phone with Pureview technology! Fan made concepts of Microsoft products have been quite popular lately and today we get to see a new concept model for Nokia model simply called Lumia 920. The Lumia 920 is showing off...

Recently, there have been two updates for two of the most important apps that Microsoft has in its arsenal of goodies. Both the Skype and Skydrive apps have an update available to them. The Skydrive app now allows for moving and deleting files within your Skydrive storage, a valuable...

It seems some AT&T stores are jumping the gun, or being rather festive. There have been reports, and pictures as shown above, that some lucky customers have been able to purchase the fabled white Nokia Lumia 900 earlier than the anticipated release date. Scheduled to be available to the...

I hate math. So do a lot of you out there as well. One of the most annoying subjects ever created (speaking personally here, no disrespect to physicists out there) has been made fun by tilebitstudio. The game is a simple multiplying game. No thrills here, just plain ol’ multiplying. It...

The Windows Phone marketplace has just received an app similar to Draw Something. Although some of you might be excited to see this app on the marketplace, keep in mind this app has just released and is not as nearly polished as other apps. A quick look at the reviews might turn you away, but...

Halo and Call of Duty may be heading for the biggest first person shooter showdown this holiday season, as it will be the first time the two series release new installments within the same month. Are you looking for more details on this year’s Call of Duty game? Well, it will be made by...

One heck of a release date, Microsoft has confirmed that Halo 4 will be available in stores on November 6th, 2012. The release date was revealed with help of Conan O’Brien. Conan O’Brien may be joking when he says he will be in Halo 4, but we can only hope he makes it in...

There are a lot of rumors about the next generation Xbox console. Some say it will ship with an ARM processor, others say it won’t play used games. Some of these will end up being true while others will go down in gaming infamy as being silly speculation. One of the latest rumors is...