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Minecraft Now Offers Free Educational Tools To Keep Kids Engaged During Social Distancing

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Xbox head Phil Spencer has outlined ways that Microsoft hopes to help people through their social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak, starting with special educational content to be distributed through Minecraft. In a blog post, Spencer cited "unprecedented demand for gaming."Part of that includes more kids going online to spend time with friends since they aren't in schools. Spencer says that families are trying to strike a balance between socializing and fun, and continuing education through distance learning. To that end, Minecraft has opened a new Education category to the

A Message to the Gaming Community on What We’re Doing to Help Today

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We are living in unprecedented times. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of people around the world and changed the way we go about our daily lives. Here at Microsoft, we’re constantly asking ourselves what we can do to support people during this challenging time. To me, the most important thing to remember is that we’re all living and learning through this together.  I have previously stated that I believe gaming has a unique power to bring people together, to entertain, to inspire and connect us, and I believe

Half-Life: Alyx Easter Eggs, References, And Details You Might Have Missed

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Half-Life: Alyx is set between the first Half-Life and Half-Life 2. In the grand scheme of the Half-Life universe, spanning two major games, two episodes, and the Portal series, a lot has happened before Half-Life: Alyx's adventure takes place and a lot happens after. You'd expect the latest installation of a game that hasn't seen a new entry in 12 years to have a lot of fanservice, but in keeping with typical Valve fashion, the writing is tight, original, and faithful to what came before.That means there aren't exactly a

Butterscotch Shenanigans Launching Level Creation Platformer ‘Levelhead’ on April 30th

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It was nearly two years ago to the day that we sat down with the fellas from Butterscotch Shenanigans during GDC 2018 to take a look at what they had cooking to follow up their previous release Crashlands, which was our Game of the Year back in 2016. The new game was called Levelhead and it was a precision platformer based heavily around the ability to create and share your own levels, similar to something like Super Mario Maker. The following May we got some new details and a new

You Can Help Create A Coronavirus Vaccine By Playing This Game

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COVID-19, otherwise known as the novel coronavirus, is an ongoing global outbreak that has affected over 97 countries and territories. Declared as a public health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO), there is currently no vaccine to completely stop this global epidemic. However, a team of researchers at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle have come up with an unusual technique to combat the COVID-19 virus outbreak: video games, providing a glimmer of hope in this gloom and doom time.  Foldit, the crowdsourcing online puzzle video game that was launched

Meet the New Xbox MVPs

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We are proud to welcome three new Xbox most valuable professionals (MVPs) awardees: Dhayana Sena, Courtney Craven, and Matt Armstrong. Everything from creating a welcoming community to creating awareness of game accessibility, these leaders go above and beyond in the gaming community. Read on to find out more about them and how they impact the gaming community. Feeling alone and cast aside due to her love for pop culture and geekdom, Dhayana created her own, community hub, a website called Attack On Geek. After adding game reviews and content to