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Now you can play Minecraft Dungeons with friends on different platforms When you download the free cross-platform play update for Minecraft Dungeons, you and your friends will be able to engage with each other no matter what platform or console you or they are on, including Windows, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation. In related cross-platform news, cloud saves are coming soon to Minecraft Dungeons, which means you’ll be able to play on one platform, use the new cloud save feature, then pick up the game and your progress on another platform. Find out more on Minecraft.net. Source: Now you can play Minecraft Dungeons with friends on different platforms

Halo 4 now available for PC gamers Halo 4, the final installment of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, is now available through the Microsoft Store, Xbox Game Pass and Steam. Humanity’s threat of extinction at the hands of the Covenant has been avoided, but an ancient evil awakens. Stranded and shipwrecked on an alien world, the Master Chief must find a path back home while unravelling a sinister plot hatched by the Forerunners. Halo 4 also features 25 multiplayer maps, as well as an updated armor customization system that allows you to change more pieces than ever before. Find out more over at Xbox Wire. Source: Halo 4 now available for PC gamers

Announcing WinUI 3: Preview 3 If you tuned in to this morning’s App Development Community Standup, you know that today we released WinUI 3 Preview 3. If you want to skip the summary and head straight to the release notes and installation instructions, you can find those here. New Features The team has been hard at work on Preview 3 since the release of Preview 2 back in July. Countless bug fixes, exciting new capabilities, and improvements on existing capabilities will hopefully make this a great Preview for you all to try out. Here are some highlights from Preview 3 that are new since Preview 2: ARM64 Support Drag and drop inside and outside of apps RenderTargetBitmap (only XAML content for now – SwapChainPanel content will be captured later) Improvements to our tooling/developer experience: Live Visual Tree, Hot Reload, Live [ more… ]

Gears 5: Multiplayer suite relaunches with biggest post-launch update ever Gears 5 is relaunching its multiplayer suite with its largest post-launch update ever, “Operation 5: Hollow Storm.” The game now has twice the multiplayer content since launch and significant feature updates that give players more freedom to play as they want. A themed update, “Operation 5” takes fans back to the battles in Gears of War 2 and Gears of War 3 and adds seven characters, five maps, 13 new achievements and one returning weapon – the Scorcher. Find out more on Xbox Wire. Source: Gears 5: Multiplayer suite relaunches with biggest post-launch update ever