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Microsoft announced a new commitment to gaming on Windows PCs. Microsoft is cutting its share of game revenue from 30% to just 12%, letting devs keep more money. Microsoft also teased more "quality-of-life" improvements for PC gamers, touting "improved install reliability and faster download speeds." Microsoft has a checkered history when it comes to PC gaming. While its early work to make Windows as open as possible for game development led to the industry we know and love today, later blunde...

Plus: the return of Apogee and more supporter Q+A. Blog by Richard Leadbetter, Technology Editor, Digital Foundry 26 April 2021 Its that time again! Every Thursday morning, the Digital Foundry team convene to discuss the latest news in gaming, to talk about our most recent projects and to answer questions put to us by supporters of our Patreon! Its a fantastic way for us to break up the working week, spend...

Published on 22 Apr, 2021 Microsoft have confirmed that their upcoming DirectX tech to help eliminate game loading times, DirectStorage, will be supported by both PCIe 3.0 SSDs and the newer PCIe 4.0 drives. This is excellent news for SSD owners, as it means you wont have to shell out for an expensive PCIe 4.0 SSD like Samsungs 980 Pro or WDs Black SN850 to take advantage of this new storage tech. Microsoft confirmed the news in their Game Stack Live presentation last nigh...

Azure Speech Services are pushing the boundaries of what AI voices can sound like in apps and games, with some interesting possibilities for future Xbox and PC games.

Microsoft revealed the Xbox Velocity Architecture last July, showing off some background work and ideas that had gone into the Xbox Series X/S, to bring true next gen gaming to the masses. Some of the key aspects of this architecture are to do with storage – getting the stored data to the CPU and GPU as fast as possible, with minimum latency and sustained performance so game designers feel less restricted, especially in imagining open world games. The DirectStorage API was highlighted as one ...

Xbox Developers Now Have Full Access to AMD FidelityFX Tools Apr 20, 2021 18:42 EDT Microsoft’s Xbox consoles share most of their big games with the PC, and going forward, crossplay development is going to be just a little bit easier. Today during Microsoft’s Game Stack Live event, it was announced that AMD FidelityFX is now fully supported on Xbox Series X/S. Here’s what AMD had to say about FidelityFX entering the console space… Today, we are very happy to announce that AMD Fidel...

Back when the Xbox Series X/S consoles were announced, we knew that Microsoft went for a fully-featured RDNA 2 GPU for the system, enabling compatibility with FidelityFX features. Now, AMD’s additional graphics and performance enhancing features are officially coming to Xbox consoles, paving the way for these features to become more widely used by both …

Great news for users with PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs on April 21, 2021, 13:38 Why it matters: Microsoft during its recent Game Stack Live (GSL) 2021 event confirmed that its upcoming DirectStorage API for the PC will be compatible with PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs. Thats important considering PCIe 3.0 drives are much more plentiful than their newer counterparts and PCIe 4.0 drives are limited to just a handful of newer platforms. Up to this point, it was widely assumed that the tech would o...

Source: Windows Central Xbox Game Pass is in the news almost non-stop lately. The service provides access to dozens upon dozens of games big and small on a variety of devices including Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and Android devices. Soon, Xbox Game Pass will also include iOS and web browsers after a global beta test. Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming brings games built for Xbox to a far broader audience than would otherwise be possible. However, the bridge between a game made for the TV on your X...