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Got Xbox Game Pass? Start playing 20 Bethesda games from world’s most iconic franchises Earlier this week, Microsoft officially welcomed ZeniMax Media and Bethesda to the Xbox family. What does that mean to you as a gamer? For starters, it means an awesome slate of great games has arrived on Xbox Game Pass for you to discover and play with your friends. Today, 20 of Bethesda’s most iconic and award-winning games – from franchises like Dishonored, Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Wolfenstein – are available to Xbox Game Pass members. Additionally, 16 of those titles will be available everywhere you play, whether it’s PC, console or mobile devices through the cloud for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. Head over to Xbox Wire for more, and to Microsoft Store on Windows to see the full list of games, some of [ more… ]

Build Cross-Platform applications with WinUI and Uno Platform Uno Platform is a free and open-source platform aiming to take WinUI applications built with C# and XAML everywhere.   If you are not familiar with WinUI, it is the native UX platform for building Windows applications – you can learn more about it on the WinUI website. With Uno Platform you can bring your WinUI applications everywhere that WinUI does not natively run – Web/WebAssembly, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. Uno Platform is Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub.  This tutorial will walk through both setting up your Visual Studio environment for WinUI and Uno Platform development as well as building a simple same-codebase application which uses WinUI InfoBar control and runs on Windows, WebAssembly and Android. Upon completion of this 5-minute tutorial your sample application will look like this in both “light” and “dark” modes:  Prerequisites If you have not prepared your dev environment for Uno Platform app development yet, the Setting up the Environment page in the Uno Platform docs will guide you through installing all the prerequisites.  Tutorial: WinUI InfoBar running Cross-Platform  Open Visual Studio and click on Create a new project. Search for the Uno templates, select the Cross-Platform App (Uno Platform) then click Next. Name your app ‘UnoLovesWinUI’ then click Next.  Once the [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21332 Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21332 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 21332 An update on the roll out of news and interests Over the last two months, we’ve been trying out several variations of the news and interests experience on the Windows taskbar. We have received a lot of great feedback from Windows Insiders and as a result, have landed on what we believe to be the best experience for customers. The news and interests flyout experience will now show two columns of content, making it easy to quickly glance over your feed of weather, headlines, money, and more. By default, it will open via hover or click. Based on your feedback, we will also be introducing an option [ more… ]

Minecraft x UNIQLO Skins Vol. 2 now available The new Minecraft x Uniqlo Collaboration will start rolling out on March 15 (March 12 in China). To celebrate the new collection, the Minecraft team is releasing Minecraft x UNIQLO Skins Vol. 2. Wear your favorite Uniqlo x Minecraft apparel as you mine, craft, explore or virtually hang out with friends. There are 15 skins in the free pack, so you can avoid the chagrin of finding yourself wearing the same outfit as someone else in your group. Head over to Minecraft.net to find out about it all. Source: Minecraft x UNIQLO Skins Vol. 2 now available