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Hoping you’d get to do some casual game building on the Xbox One? Microsoft Game Studios’ newly revealed Project Spark may be for you. It’ll allow users to craft their own digital spaces using Kinect Voice controls to add topographical features like mountains, plains and rivers, while fine tuning things with fingers through SmartGlass. Of course, the look of the world isn’t all you can manipulate, as Project Spark also lets you create logic and rules for the objects and characters in your personal digital utopia. Oh, and if you aren’t planning on grabbing a One right away, the game looks to be coming to PCs running Windows 8 as well.

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Microsoft is laying off staff at its Vancouver studio after it halted development on Flight and “Project Columbia,” a Kinect-based virtual storybook for children. A representative speaking to Joystiq said that the 35 people affected would receive help to find new roles within the company, and that it remains invested in the city’s industry. In a statement to Kotaku, included after the break, it added that it would continue to support the free title, which was itself a revival of the doomed MS Flight Simulator, and that it would remain available for download.

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