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Forbidden from purchasing or renting a movie this weekend on your Xbox One, Xbox 360 or Windows device? Fret not humble device owner. Windows & Xbox Free Movie Weekend has returned to save you from your weekend stint of boredom. The company is allowing anyone with a Microsoft Account to rent Forbidden Empire free of charge.
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Windows & Xbox Free Movie Weekend is back with free ‘Forbidden Empire’
We’re back in the lab again. I should be more specific, I’m back in the lab again, taking your questions about Microsoft’s entertainment ecosystem in general. Last we talked, I served up answers to some of your questions about Xbox Live and Microsoft’s Xbox One consoles. Today, we’re balancing everything out and taking a look at Groove Music only.
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Microsoft's Xbox Live Deals with Gold for January 26th offers major discounts on some of the Xbox One's most popular online titles. Also, there's some savings to be had on one of last year's biggest Xbox One exclusives, Rise of the Tomb Raider.
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Xbox Live Deals with Gold for January 26th: Rise of the Tomb Raider & more
Lately, the key to creating a successful television shows has been authenticity. It’s not enough for programs to show us some glitzy shots of locales we’ve never been to and throw in a couple movie stars. We need immersion, we crave authenticity. In its first year I praised the ABC sit-com Black-ish for its authentic writing. It’d have been easy to create a show with black-jokes and side-eye humor. Instead, for 30 minutes every watcher of that show gets treated to a half-hour of what we really think, but don’t say and how other cultures continue to baffle us. Authenticity is something that Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle tries to achieve and succeeds at.
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The US Story Trailer for Ubisoft's Far Cry Primal, coming to the Xbox One on February 23rd.
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Microsoft may have added only a single major game to its Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Program for the month of January, but it's making up for that by giving away that game to everyone. This morning the company revealed a new slate of Xbox 360 games coming to the Xbox One at no additional charge on its Xbox Wire news blog.
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Free Witcher 2, More Games Arrive for Xbox One Backwards Compatibility
Just when you thought it was safe to return to traditional cable operators, Netflix shares plans for dominating what little free time you have left this year. This week the company announced the release dates and other details for most of its comedies and dramas. We now know when new episodes of Daredevil, House of Cards, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Grace & Frankie and Orange is the New Black will arrive.
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See it Soon: Orange is the New Black & Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix
Microsoft has provided small tweaks, features and enhancements to the Xbox One since launch. All of that work culminated in last year's New Xbox One Experience. With that update available, the company is back to monthly releases and updates that contain good-to-have improvements. Members of the Xbox One Preview Program can expect a Xbox One update to arrive on their system over the next few days that brings with it a ton of improvements to the social experience on the console.
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Social is the big focus of the first Xbox One update in 2016
Right about now, every sports fan is prepping for the NBA Playoffs. They're looking over game time schedules, reevaluating their decision to ditch cable television and likely burning all of the Lebron James gear they can get their hands on. Rest assured playoff fans, a select few of you will be able to watch the NBA Playoffs on Xbox Live using a mix of apps and services.
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Today, there are way too many Xbox One bundles to choose from, with their own games and select upgrades. Even still, Microsoft is adding to that roster a bit with some new Xbox One bundles that it announced last week. Of these new bundles, the Rainbow Six Siege Xbox One bundle is pretty exciting.
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