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Microsoft may have renamed its Xbox Video service to Microsoft Movies & TV, but it's keeping Xbox Video Free Movie Weekends around, it seems. Throughout the weekend Xbox One, Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Windows PC owners can watch Batman: Under The Red Hood absolutely free on their devices.
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Microsoft Movies & TV free rentals return with ‘Batman: Under the Red Hood
The opening scene from the second mission of Halo 5: Guardians, coming to the Xbox One on October 27th.
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An audio show hyping a video game? I'm not entirely sure who had the bright idea to produce a documentary podcast that fills in the gaps between what happened with Doctor Halsey at the beginning of Halo 4 and what we're going to experience this fall with Halo 5: Guardians. Doesn't matter though, I started listening this week and its positively brilliant. 343 Industries, the game's developer, has terrific news for listeners of Hunt The Truth. The second season of the podcast kicks off today.
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When you're building a music collection in Microsoft's Groove subscription service you need to craft your playlists by hand or use its seriously limited Radio feature. If a picture on the company's Groove Music website is any indication that'll change soon enough. Some kind of automatically created playlists outside of the Radio feature is included in a screenshot posted to the Groove Music website.
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The Descent into Legend trailer for Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360 on November 10th.
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Lucky members of Microsoft's Xbox Preview Program began getting early access to the New Xbox One Experience this past weekend. Slow down, you don't want to all go running for those controllers at the same time. There's no way to manually trigger the update on-demand.
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Have Microsoft's Xbox 360 entertainment consoles? Good news, you've now got 2GB of cloud storage at your disposal and an Activity Feed to fill with your musings. That's provided you've got an internet connection to download day's Xbox 360 software update.
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The Jack The Ripper trailer for Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jack The Ripper Add-on, coming to Xbox One on October 23rd and Windows PCs on November 19th
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As purveyors of all Microsoft-related entertainment news some days we have to deliver bad news to good, loyal people. If you've been one of the many hanging on to your Zune Music Pass subscription and a compatible device now might be the time to let go. Microsoft has officially set a kill date for Zune Marketplace and the Zune Music Pass.
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Until today none of Microsoft's music services, Zune, Xbox Music or Groove could connect to a set of Sonos speakers for wireless playback. This morning the Groove Music team finally put an end to that streak. As of right now, owners of Sonos speaker systems can finally use their wireless network to listen to their songs.
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