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Publish An App In The Windows Store: Win A Trip To TechEd Australia

FINAL ROUND! Good news developers: you still have 7 days (and a whole weekend) to chase your dream. Simply submit your new app to the Windows Store (even if it’s an Android or iOS port) and you could win the chance to present your app to thouseands of industry-types at Microsoft’s TechEd 2013 on the Gold Coast. Then there’s the HP laptops, Xbox bundles and Microsoft peripherals that we’re also giving away…


Report: Xbox Staff Working On Microsoft ‘Smartwatch’

According to a report on The Verge, former Xbox and Kinect staffers have for a year been working on a “wrist-worn device” for Microsoft. The watch, which the report says began life as an Xbox accessory for fitness games, has a 1.5-inch display.


TegraZone Looks So Much Sexier In Windows RT

I’m so used to writing about Tegra-powered Android devices that I’d completely overlooked Windows tablets and laptops powered by NVIDIA’s game-enhancing mobile processor. The blocky Windows RT TegraZone app is here to remind me.


Windows 8′s Store Now Supports Adult Video Games

When the platform first launched, Windows 8 inexplicably shut out games rated PEGI 18, meaning that, if/when the day came that developers began releasing games with Windows 8 features, Europeans wouldn’t be able to get them from Microsoft’s store.


I’m Not Quite Sure What To Make Of ‘Oton’, A Console That Promises To ‘Self-Create’ Games

The Ouya is happily ticking along, with $US8.5 million in the kitty and development kits going out this month. It’s hard not to be inspired by the interest — and dollars — the project has drawn; we shouldn’t be surprised by others trying to get in on its success. Enter EnGeniux with its “Oton” console that will apparently create its own games. Yeah, I’m having trouble buying it too.


You Can Now Play Windows’ Famous Solitaire Anywhere

And you don’t even need a Windows tablet, phone or laptop to do it. Designer Evan Roth has made this deck of cards called Solitaire.exe, which recreate the famous Windows 98 deck of cards for use in the real world.


Newest DirectX Upgrade Only For Windows 8 Systems

And so the inevitable march of Windows moves onward: DirectX, the software that Windows computers rely on to make games run, is getting an upgrade — but only for Windows 8.


Why Did I Become A PC Gamer? Because It’s The Cheapest Way To Play

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “PC? Oh hell no. That’s way to expensive and complicated. I like my 360 just fine.” There’s something to be said for that. We’ve reviewed many a high powered, high-priced machine here at Kotaku, and even the peripherals can add up. $400 for an Xbox 360, with a network that all of your friends are already on, as compared to $1500 or more for a PC, seems like a no-brainer to most players. And in a way, it is.


Long Distance Sex? There’s An App For That.

Next January, Taiwan’s LovePalz will be launching its long distance lovin’ pleasuring gadgets. The devices, which seem to be designed for straight couples, have gotten Western news coverage — and more recently, Japanese.


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