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Amid the ongoing 14 Days of Summer event, Fortnite's Season 9, Week 8 challenges have gone live across PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile. Given that it's an even-numbered week, this would normally mean that a new Fortbyte is also available to collect in the game, but if you're hoping to find it, you likely aren't having much success. Here's what's going on.
Fortbyte #97 should have arrived in the game alongside Week 8's challenges. Unlike the secret Battle Stars you can collect when you complete this season's Utopia challenges, you don't need to clear any challenges in order to find the Fortbyte; you simply need to have a Season 9 Battle Pass and know where to look. However, while many have already pinpointed the Fortbyte's location, it appears the collectible isn't actually live in the game yet, so it won't show up when you go looking for it.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened; Week 4's Fortbyte similarly didn't go live alongside that week's challenges, instead arriving a few days later. That will presumably be the case with Fortbyte #97 as well, so we'll continue to monitor the game and have a Fortbyte guide up once the item goes live. In the meantime, you can still complete Week 8's challenges if you haven't already. The trickiest of the bunch is to visit three different clocks. If you don't know where those are, be sure to check out our clock location guide.
Nintendo has issued its first update for Super Mario Maker 2. Version 1.0.1 provides a more pleasant game experience. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of the official support page:
Issues have been fixed to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.
It’s unknown at this point in time if this patch will resolve the recently discovered game-breaking bug.
Tell us in the comments if you’ve had the chance to make a course or two in the Super Mario Maker sequel yet.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 06-28-2019, 10:33 PM - Forum: Windows
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‘Crackdown 3’ Free Flying High Campaign update available now
Welcome back, Agents!
Last month, we gave you Crackdown 3’sKeys to the City, providing a deep menu of Campaign tools and cheats to unleash unprecedented havoc, alongside a new vanity progression system for Wrecking Zone. Today, we’re excited to announce the free Flying High Campaign update, available with Xbox Game Pass and on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC.
With Flying High you have new gadgets to collect, new Achievements to earn—and a whole new way to explore the expansive, vertical world of New Providence.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s you soaring above the city with the Agency Wingsuit! Reach new heights, attack enemies from above, and test your flying skills in one of seven Wingsuit races.
Eager to bring even more boom? Try the Clusterduck grenade and its chain-reaction explosions. If that doesn’t fit the duckbill, make it rain with the Hellstorm Flare to call in air-strikes from the Island Defense Turrets or deploy the Agency Peacekeeper Beacon to summon Civilian Militia backup.
But that’s not all! Unearth the Elemental Forge gadget to summon four over-the-top melee weapons, each with its own unique environmental damage effects. Light up your foes with the Flaming Sword, give them a shocking send-off with the Electric Hammer, keep it cool with the Ice Mace, or be the toxin of the town with the Chimera Axe. Swing, smash and throw each weapon to unleash chaotic fun.
We can’t thank you enough for your continued support of Crackdown 3. With a total of 14 new Achievements and 500 Gamerscore, the free Flying High update is yours for the taking, so get to it Agents!
Crackdown 3 is available now with Xbox Game Pass and on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC. For the latest on Crackdown 3 and all things Xbox stay tuned to Xbox Wire.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 06-28-2019, 10:33 PM - Forum: Windows
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Meet Azure Resource Graph, latest Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame inductee
For the 2017 company-wide Hackathon, Chirag Gupta and Gaurav Kapila saw an opportunity to bring visibility to and alignment behind an improved and more in-depth analysis of resource allocation for large enterprise customers on Azure. At the time, the two were working on log analytics and Azure Governance for their day jobs. They were gathering evidence on what were the gaps for enterprise adoption of Azure, and what could help the experience for customers with Azure subscriptions at scale. With their 2017 Hackathon project, Cloud Map, Chirag and Gaurav recruited a team to create a solution that provided Azure Resource exploration through a graphical interface as well as advanced query language for searching across Azure resource properties. When showing their hack project to various groups in the company, they found that everyone was dealing with one problem – helping large-scale, enterprise customers better understand their own Azure environments by bringing better visibility to existing issues or potential problems.
“Hackathon helped us really get these internal teams together. Our project has a lot of dependencies and partners inside Microsoft.” Gaurav explained. “We needed to get these teams in the same room and ask, ‘would something like Cloud Map be helpful to you? Does this solve your problems?’” Chirag added.
Their project resonated with teams and especially Group Manager of Azure portal, Leon Welicki, who not only joined their project but became the sponsor, key in guiding the project towards public preview and general availability as Azure Resource Graph. Alex Zakonov, who was the Director of Application Insights in 2017, also sponsored the project with engineers from his team contributing to the project early on. The amount of validation the project received was so powerful that the portal team adopted Azure Resource Graph completely, with the top search bar in Azure portal pulling data solely from Azure Resource Graph.
“We coded like crazy in 3-4 days during Hackathon, we were elbow to elbow, sitting together, so we developed a really close relationship. Fantastic full stack collaboration between everybody involved, which set a very solid foundation of two teams that worked like one.” Leon recalled his team working side by side with the Graph team during the Hackathon and how each member of the hack project worked across disciplines to achieve a compelling demo that showed their vision for the project. “We continue to have a fantastic partnership going on driving two parts of the product – front-end and back-end.”
In 2018, Chirag again participated in the Hackathon to experiment with what their team had built. Their 2018 Hackathon project, Microsoft Graph for Azure, investigated ways Azure Resource Graph’s reach could be extended by integrating Microsoft Graph to allow exploration using Microsoft Graph API’s.
In September of 2018 at Microsoft Ignite, Azure Resource Graph was officially released as part of Azure Governance, a set of services for customers that help build and scale applications quickly while making sure their environments are secure, compliant, and cost effective. Customers are able to access Azure Resource Graph by directly searching in the Azure portal search bar, querying and filtering on multiple resource properties, and seeing an in-depth and even visual representation of their resources across Azure subscriptions. All to ensure customers have a clearer picture of their activity and environments across Azure for smarter and more efficient management to save time and money.
At Build 2019, the team released the Azure Resource Graph explorer view in Azure portal. In addition to allowing customers to create custom queries, they could now also create dashboards based on the Graph. The experience was also made available on the Azure mobile application, expanding Azure Resource Graph’s footprint.
Even after public preview and general availability release, expect the team to continue improving and extending Azure Resource Graph. The team is collaborating closely with Azure portal to provide robust data visualizations and build improved Azure management experiences that are critical for IT admins, cloud admins, DevOps, and enterprise businesses everywhere.
While Cyberpunk 2077 won't arrive until April 2020, players may need to start making preparations for the massive first-person shooter. Quite literally, as the game's install size allegedly hovers around 80 GB.
The European PlayStation Store reveals the 80 GB minimum required to install the game. It's possible the install size is an inaccurate placeholder, as Reddit user PhoOhThree allegedly confirmed in the Cyberpunk Discord that CD Projekt Red isn't "done with the game" and that the install size "can be more or less at the end."
CD Projekt Red's 2015 action-RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with all its free and paid DLC, requires at least 50 GB minimum to install. The Polish developer has made no official announcement on the size of the game.
Luigi’s Mansion 3 Wins Best Family / Social Game At E3 2019
Following on from the news about the ‘best of E3’ nominees, we’ve now got the full list of winners selected by 64 global media and influencer outlets. In the end, the Nintendo and Next Level Switch title Luigi’s Mansion 3 won the award for best family/social game.
This was the only first-party Nintendo title to win an award and Final Fantasy VII Remake won best of the show. Apart from this, the recently released Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled won the best racing game, Doom Eternal won best action game and the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller beat the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Mini to win the best hardware/peripheral award.
Best of Show Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix for PS4)
Best Original Game The Outer Worlds (Obsidian/Private Division for PC, PS4, Xbox)
Best Console Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix for PS4)
Best VR/AR Game Phantom: Covert Ops (nDreams/Oculus Studios for Oculus Quest, PC)
Best PC Game Doom Eternal (id Software/Bethesda for PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox)
Best Hardware/Peripheral Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 (Microsoft)
Best Action Game Doom Eternal (id Software/Bethesda for PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox)
Best Action/Adventure Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft for PC, PS4, Stadia, Xbox)
Best RPG Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix for PS4)
Best Racing Game Crash Team Racing (Beenox/Activision for PS4, Xbox)
Best Sports Game EFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 (Konami for PS4, Xbox)
Best Strategy Game John Wick Hex (Bithell Games/Good Sheperd for Mac, PC)
Best Family/Social Game Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Next Level Games/Nintendo for Switch)
Best Online Multiplayer Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision for PC, PS4, Xbox)
Best Independent Game 12 Minutes (Luis Antonio/Annapurna for PC, Xbox)
Best Ongoing Game Destiny 2 (Bungie for PC, PS4, Stadia, Xbox)
Special Commendations for Graphics Cyberpunk 2077 (CD PROJEKT RED for PC, PS4, Xbox)
If you would like to see what other games were nominated, check out our previous post.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 06-28-2019, 03:08 PM - Forum: Windows
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New tracking solution aims to keep skies safe as drones proliferate
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expects the number of drones in our airspace to increase as much as threefold by 2023, as commercial drone operations become more common. But with more drones in the air, mishaps become more likely. In 2017, the FAA reported an average of 250 safety incidents per month, in some cases halting operations at major international airports.
Israeli startup Vorpal specializes in tracking and, ideally, preventing those near misses. Their drone detection and tracking solution, VigilAir, uses a geographically distributed network of sensors that scan relevant frequencies to identify drone transmissions, allowing them to identify and track drones and their operators in near-real time.
Each of Vorpal’s sensors is equipped with computing hardware that processes their location-tracking software. The more drones in the sky, the more compute power needed to handle all that data. To ensure that VigilAir can seamlessly maintain those capabilities, Vorpal is looking to the cloud, working with AT&T and Microsoft to test how edge computing could allow them to track thousands of drones at any given time.
The AT&T Foundry, a network of innovation spaces dedicated to rapid prototyping, is testing how to bring network edge compute (NEC) capabilities into AT&T’s network with Microsoft’s intelligent edge offerings, including Azure’s IoT and AI services, and Azure Stack hybrid technology. By deploying Microsoft’s advanced cloud services closer to the edge of the network, NEC could allow businesses to access low-latency network compute at a fraction of the cost of traditional, embedded processing.
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