This week brought an announcement of a next-gen enhanced version of ESO on consoles, some new Teams features, and a serious Azure outage affecting multiple services. Catch up via our handy overview.
An enhanced version of ESO for next-gen (now current-gen) consoles, a smattering of optional Windows updates, and some new features for Teams all showed up in the news this week. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of March 28 – April 3. We begin the column with some gaming news, as ZeniMax Online has announced that a next-gen variant of Elder Scrolls Online is headed for the PS5 and Xbox Series X| S consoles on June 8, 2021. This is a mere week after the MMORPG is set to get its new chapter dubbed Blackwood. The update will allow folks to run the game at 60FPS, with increased draw distance, unlocked textures, updated aliasing, as well as improved reflections, ambient occlusion and Screen Space Global Illumination, shadows, depth of field, and perhaps most importantly, loading times. There’s still quite a bit of time to wait until then, so in the meantime you can claim Vikings: Wolves of Midgard and Dark Void right now for free, if you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, with Truck Racing Championship and Hard Corps: Uprising landing later in the month as part of the April wave of Games with Gold. Speaking of Gold, there are also Deals with Gold to peruse, featuring Panzer Dragoon: Remake, Watch Dogs: Legion, Call of Cthulhu, Mars: War Logs, and much more. Lastly, if you have a set of backwards compatible games, you can rejoice knowing that a number of them have now gained cloud play support. Among supported titles there’s Fable II, Fallout: New Vegas, Perfect Dark, Gears of War 2, and a bunch of others.
