Dual Pixels: "We're back this week with E3 out the way, We delve deeper into Microsoft and Sonys On Demand services. The Pros, The Cons, and maybe Nintendo will arise to the occasion."

Avalanche Studios upcoming action-adventure game, "Just Cause 4", is now available for digital pre-order and pre-download via the Microsoft Store on Xbox One. Just Cause 4 sees rogue hero Rico Rodriguez land in Solis to hunt down the truth about his past, at any costs. Strap into your wingsuit,...
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No, not the list of things Microsoft needs to do (that's quite long!), but another of the regular updates for Microsoft To-Do, the cross-platform, cross-device task and project manager that's becoming more and more useful as time goes on. This week we have custom themes and backgrounds now available in all views, including My Day, plus bug fixes and a feature that I couldn't get to work... Progress, eh?

Long time Windows curmudgeon Paul Thurrott has been given access to some of Microsoft's roadmap for the rest of 2018 and it's fairly exciting to have 'Andromeda'/Surface Mobile confirmed for this year after all - with Microsoft there's a certain risk of project cancellation throughout development. I'd originally predicted Surface Mobile (my best guess at the name) to be announced last month, along with the Redstone 5 branch of Windows, but clearly there's still a lot of work going on and things have slipped by six months.

Nearly 10 years after Microsoft introduced avatars to Xbox Live on the 360, the company has pushed a big update to the virtual gamer creation system that makes it more diverse than ever.
Today, Alpha ring Xbox Insiders can fiddle about with the new and improved avatars with the beta Xbox Avatar Editor app - this should be live by 8pm UK time.
There's a wide range of body types and gender-neutral clothing available. New categories of appearance items and accessories include fingernails, makeup, limbs, nose rings and moods.

Fresh off the back of Microsoft's announcement that even more titles are headed to the company's Netflix-like subscription platform, you can now get yourself a six-month membership of Xbox Game Pass for half its regular price, for a limited time.
At E3, Microsoft was proud to showcase some new additions to its Xbox Game Pass service, with promises of Halo: Master Chief Collection and Forza Horizon 4 later in the year and next year's Crackdown 3 available at launch.
The company also proudly announced its FastStart tech, which uses machine learning to get you playing your Game Pass games even quicker, starting with the June Xbox One update. For now, though, you can get yourself a and gain access to hundreds of existing titles including Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Spelunky, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+, Halo 5, Fable 3 and many more.

Microsoft have bolstered their lineup of first party studios, but what can we expect those studios to put out?

Microsoft have bolstered their lineup of first party studios, but what can we expect those studios to put out?