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Rise of the Tomb Raider, the next Lara Croft adventure, is an Xbox exclusive

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by on August 12, 2014 at 1:19 pm
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Rise of the Tomb Raider, the next entry in the long-running adventure franchise featuring Lara Croft, will be an Xbox exclusive next year. The move was announced at Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference with a tentative release date of Holiday 2015. Darrell Gallagher, Head of Studios for Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, explained the move on Tumblr: “As you may have seen, we’ve just announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider, coming Holiday 2015, is exclusively on Xbox. We consider all of you to be the lifeblood of Tomb Raider and the work we do at Crystal. I’d like to give…

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Corel Painter 2015 upgrade offers new brushes, mobile focus and under-the-hood overhaul

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by on August 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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For image editing, there’s Photoshop, but for real-world art creation there’s Painter, Corel’s flagship pixel-based app for natural media drawing and painting. Corel has released Painter 2015, hosting a variety of performance and feature updates including new particle brushes, updated brush tracking, support for both Wacom and Windows stylus pens, jitter smoothing and palette improvements. Targeting mobile users, the app is introducing desktop-tablet support and a new Android app. Painter is nearly 25 years old, and despite its having been bounced among several vendors over time, a steady upgrade path has managed to keep it aligned with current technologies, modern operating systems and enhancements that its…

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Xbox One with 1TB hard drive and Call of Duty: Advanced Warface arrives November 3 for $499.99

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by on August 12, 2014 at 12:46 pm
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Microsoft today announced a new Call of Duty-themed Xbox One console bundle coming this fall. The pack includes an Xbox One with a special color scheme, split in two with black on the right and charcoal on the left. Decals and gold highlights accentuate the system. The bundle also comes with the Day One edition for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – the latest entry in the military first-person shooter franchise – a custom Xbox One controller and a standard headset. Get hold of your Call of Duty: #AdvancedWarfare Bundle from Nov 3rd #xboxgamescom €499.99/£429.99/$499 pic.twitter.com/dPakwZszNk — Xbox UK (@xboxuk) August…

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Xbox One to offer TV streaming on SmartGlass, video playback via USB and DLNA network streaming

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by on August 12, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Just before its Gamescom presentation kicked off, Microsoft announced some hefty updates for its Xbox One video game console affecting some of the core apps, SmartGlass and live TV. The upgrades, which will be distributed to users of its early access program later this month, include a new media player app. This will allow players to watch their own video and audio files through an attached USB device or through a connected home media server that supports DLNA. Microsoft stressed that the preview version of the app will only support USB drives, with DLNA functionality coming “soon” afterward. All Xbox One…

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Twitter’s new focus on DMs could mean more revenue too

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by on August 12, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Ask anyone who uses Twitter what their biggest gripe about the service is, and the answer may very well be DMs. Direct Messages (DMs, aka private messages between users) are a part of Twitter that ‘power’ users have been hooked on since before WhatsApp, WeChat, Line and other billion dollar-valued mobile messaging apps even existed. And yet, the feature was buried inside Twitter’s Web and mobile apps for so long — the company once even considered dispensing with it altogether. Times have changed. DMs have been in a state of upgrade for some time — try sending links right now, many people can’t —…

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