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You can control the Xbox One by shouting, waving your arms or—if you must—using a controller. But a leaked pre-order page suggests that a conventional remote is on the way, too.

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When we conducted our hands-on review of the Xbox One, we found that the Xbox One’s controller was an improvement over the Xbox 360’s, but that being said, it seems that there are still some improvements that could be made, namely in its analog sticks where Titanfall’s design lead, Justin Hendry, found them to be a little too twitchy. The good news is that if you felt the same way about the analog sticks on the Xbox One’s controller, Microsoft will soon be issuing an update that will fix that and offer up more precise controls, and all because of the upcoming Titanfall game.

As it stands Microsoft is set to issue updates to iron out more of the Xbox One’s kinks and apparently it is because of Titanfall, a game which many are very excited about. To that extent they even fixed the Xbox One’s “twitchy” controls at the request of the developers behind the game. According to Hendry who revealed to The Verge that they worked with Microsoft on the changes, “It’s just fixing the controller input, really. It wasn’t really where we felt it should be; it was a little overly twitchy with the current controls. Now it’s fixed. We’re happy with it.” Titanfall is currently in beta and is set for a release on the 11th of March.

Xbox One Controller Will Be Updated To Be Less Twitchy original content from Ubergizmo.

It is well known that the main weakness of Windows Phone is not the OS code, or even the last-gen hardware – it is in fact the relative lack of apps. And to be fair, the situation is not so bad in an absolute sense, but nearly every Windows Phone users that I know bump into this at some point: there is always an app that you really want, which is not available on Windows Phone.

I think that Microsoft understands that well, and they are doing quite a bit of work to address the situation, but new rumors suggest that Microsoft is considering the unthinkable: run Android apps in Windows Phone. (more…)

Android Apps On Windows Phone? A Curious Possibility original content from Ubergizmo.

It would appear that Microsoft is either unaware of the existence of BlueStacks, or they’ve decided it might be time to take the technology mainstream. In a chat with the … Continue reading

It is not news that over in China, the government is pretty heavy-handed when it comes to censoring information. To that extent social media networks like Facebook and Twitter are banned. However it seems that due to a technical error, Microsoft’s Bing search has accidentally censored search results for Chinese-language users in the US, the same way it would have been censored in mainland China. At least that’s what Microsoft claims. This is based on a report from The Guardian who were the ones of reported on the alleged censorship.

According to censorship blog, Greatfire who initially discovered the censorship, it was found that certain websites and topics that could be found on Google could not be found on Bing when attempting to search using the Chinese language. Website author Charlie Smith claimed that the results were “radically different results in the US for English and Chinese language searches.” Microsoft has since denied claims that they were actively censoring search results and have attributed it to a technical error. According to Stefan Weitz, the senior director of Bing, he claimed that this was due to errors in Bing’s system and that Bing does not apply China’s legal requirements. However according to sources of The Verge, they state that Microsoft would have to adhere to China’s censorship laws if the IP address were to originate from China itself.

Microsoft Denies Censoring Bing Search Results In Chinese original content from Ubergizmo.