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Steve Wright
Steve s the owner of this very site and an active games journalist for the past ten years. He s a Canadian-Australian gay gaming geek, ice hockey player and fan. Husband to Matt and cat dad to Wally and Quinn.
Stevivor is an independent video games outlet that has serviced Australia, New Zealand and the world since 2009.
We’ve been featured on Google News since 2014, and Apple News, OpenCritic and Metacritic since 2016. We were added to The Game Awards’ jury in 2017 and the Game Critics Awards E3 panel in 2018.
Stevivor was named as Highly Commended in the category of Best Independent Media Outlet at the Australian IT Journalism Awards in 2016 and in 2019. In 2018, Stevivor won Best Esports Coverage at the Esports Pro Oceania Awards.
Microsoft has announced a new feature called FPS Boost for backward compatibility games on Xbox Series X|S, letting players enjoy games in higher frame rates, up to 120 frames per second.
Microsoft has detailed its new Xbox FPS Boost feature for Series X|S consoles. What games would you like to see utilise Xbox FPS Boost? Let us know by voting in this week s TA poll.
Feb 21, 2021 09:54 EST with 1 comment
An FPS boost for Backwards Compatible titles on console, an acknowledgement of 21H1, and even some Edge updates at the forefront. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of February 14 – 20.
Trying Edge
Unlike previous columns, in which Edge news was relegated to the final section, this time we’re switching things around a little.
We’ll start with the Canary channel, which now allows testers to open Office files directly in the browser – similar to how you would open PDFs -, as well as introducing a Kids Mode (perhaps not too dissimilar to Kid’s Corner from the Windows Phone 8 days). The latter is aimed at children between the ages of 5-8 and 9-12, and allows the browser to make sure the little ones receive “friendly content” via Bing SafeSearch, among other protections that are put in place.