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New free Farm Life content now available for Minecraft for Windows 10 Starter Collection If you’ve got the Minecraft for Windows 10 Starter Collection and want to get some virtual dirt under your very real fingernails, check out the new free content waiting for you from the Pixel Heads team. Farm Life, this week’s Bedrock Community Celebration gift, is now available in the Minecraft Marketplace. Head over to Minecraft.net to check it out. Source: New free Farm Life content now available for Minecraft for Windows 10 Starter Collection

Start the new year with 3 ways to better organize your life Want to find out how much more time you’d have for the things you want to do if you were more organized? A good way to find out is with three tech tips from the Windows team. For instance if you’re a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you can use Money in Excel to track your spending. If you’re not a subscriber, you can use free templates to do much the same thing. If you want to make sure all your computer files are backed up for protection and available wherever you want to access them, try OneDrive. And if you want to organize your thoughts while online – so you can easily follow up on them later – check out the Collections feature in Microsoft Edge, which uses pictures [ more… ]

Play video games with family to develop team skills and create new memories It’s that time of year when 4 p.m. starts to feel like midnight. The days of being able to go outside and exercise or play are waning as it gets colder, wetter and darker. But families looking for ways to find some relief indoors can turn to video games as a way to take a communal break, creating new memories and developing some surprising skills. The Entertainment Software Association, which conducted research in the U.S., shows “Parents are using video games to connect with their kids…In fact, more than half of parents (55%) say they play games with their children at least once a week, and 92% pay attention to the games their child plays.” “We advocate gaming as part of a balanced lifestyle,” says Dave McCarthy, [ more… ]

‘Xbox: Beyond Generations’ shows how playing video games together builds new family connections Loneliness among the older generation is a growing problem world-wide. Gaming in virtual worlds can provide a vital connection between older and younger family members. “Xbox: Beyond Generations” aims to bridge that generational divide in families. The initiative launches with a short documentary film, which follows the story of a family on their journey towards re-connecting with each other via gaming. Howard and his grandson Dhillon, who live nearly three hours’ driving distance apart, used to have a close relationship. But they drifted apart.    Over four weeks, the filmed experiment documents their rekindled relationship. Their ability to go on virtual road trips in Forza or sail on virtual ships together in Sea of Thieves—shared activities that are no longer possible for them to do in real life—becomes the catalyst for opening up to each other about their lives and forming a deeper bond.  Find out more on Xbox Wire. Source: ‘Xbox: Beyond [ more… ]

Get Gears 5: Hivebusters with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Gears 5 PC gaming fans, you can now enjoy the Hivebusters DLC, available through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This DLC focuses on the origin of Scorpio Squad, who were first introduced in Gears 5’s Escape mode and whose story was expanded in the Hivebusters comic book series. This ragtag group of soldiers has been recruited for an unorthodox mission to take out the Swarm and maybe even change the war forever. Find out more at Gears5.com. Source: Get Gears 5: Hivebusters with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate