Microsoft and Sega exploring strategic alliance for Azure, next-gen game development

Microsoft and Sega announced a strategic brotherhood on Dominicus. In a press release, Sega confirmed that the partnership will allow both companies to start exploring game evolution using the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. This partnership volition too assist in the development of Sega's previously-announced "Super Game" project, which is currently years away from launch.

"SEGA has played such an iconic role in the gaming industry and has been a tremendous partner over the years," said Sarah Bond, corporate vice president at Microsoft. "Nosotros look forrad to working together as they explore new ways to create unique gaming experiences for the hereafter using Microsoft deject technologies."

Sega's "Super Game" is focused on a few key pillars such as "Global", "Online", "Community" and "IP utilization," per the press release. While this partnership is in the early stages, Sega plans to use this partnership to explore future collaboration, including network infrastructure and communication.

"By considering a strategic partnership with Microsoft, nosotros seek to further advance our game evolution then that our titles can be enjoyed by fans all over the world; in this regard, nosotros aim to build an alliance that utilizes both SEGA'southward powerful game evolution capabilities and Microsoft'due south cut-edge technology and evolution environment," stated Yukio Sugino, president and COO of Sega.

Fiddling else is known correct now, but whatsoever else these games end up being, Xbox Series 10 and Xbox Series S players tin can look forward to playing them, given Microsoft'south involvement in creating this game development environment.

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android xi

After a very long await, the original Surface Duo is now eligible to receive its over-the-air OS update to Android 11. Hither is what is new and fixed with the biggest update yet for Microsoft'due south first dual-screen Android device.