Halo Wars 2 is now available on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs

The much anticipated Halo Wars 2 strategy game is now available for Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs through the XBox Play Anywhere program.

"On behalf of the Strategy Games team inside 343 Industries, we’re incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work on Halo Wars 2 and for the patience of fans who waited so long to get their “ALL UNITS” on again. We want to thank our partners at Creative Assembly for their deep respect to the Halo universe and for challenging us to expand on that universe. We also couldn’t have done this without Blur Studios and their ability to see Halo even more clearly than we did at times. And we have to pay respects to the foundation laid by everyone from Ensemble Studios when they made that great first transition of both Halo and consoles to real-time strategy gaming," Dan Ayoub, Studio Head of Strategy Games Development for Microsoft said.

Apple's WWDC 2017 will take place in San Jose on June 5-9

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's yearly World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) will move to San Jose on June 5 to 9 of this year. WWDC had been held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco for decades, and while many speculated that the Apple Campus 2 would be finished in time to host this year's dev and engineer pow-wow, it seems the mothership isn't ready to accept the thousands of participants yet.

Instead, WWDC 2017 will take place at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, closer to the companys headquarters. WWDC 2017 will give developers access to more than 1,000 Apple engineers with opportunities to meet and engage with them throughout the conference.

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Review: 2016 Mazda MX-5

Text and photos by Emily Chung

I review a lot of family-friendly vehicles and the 2016 Mazda MX-5 definitely doesn’t belong in that category. This spunky roadster is what I call a ‘sanity-friendly’ ride, when you just need some peace and quiet… there’s no room for backseat passengers!

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Amazon's Chime promises frustration-free online meetings

Hoping to disrupt the online meeting video and audio space, Amazon is leveraging its dominance of cloud services with Amazon Chime for iOS, Android, Mac and PC for its AWS customers.

Amazon Chime is now available to all customers. Amazon Chime is a modern, fully-managed communications service from AWS that makes it easy for you to communicate with people inside and outside your organization using voice, video, and chat.

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