Project Spark enters global beta

For Windows 8.1 gamers, Microsoft and Team Dakota have a treat for you today. The highly customizable Project Spark is now ready to accept beta players. It will be available first with Windows 8.1 users (Xbox One players will gain access early 2014) and will be in beta until the game officially launches next year.

What can you expect from Project Spark? You can customize the game and play what other players have created. Mold and shape the world with paints and biomes and use the brain system to add behaviors to anything in the game and bring them to life.

Microsoft's CLICK program connects patients and parents at SickKids Hospital

By Sonya Davidson 

I volunteered at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto a few years back. My responsibility was to keep the kids entertained post operation. The children were there for more than a few days and sometimes their parents couldn't be with them. They had to either return to work, had other kids to take care of, or they had to run errands. It was an eye opening experience that still leaves me humbled. 

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Microsoft updates SkyDrive for iOS with photo auto-upload

Microsoft just released an update for its SkyDrive iOS app to add automatic uploading for photos on the iOS platform. This was previously just available for Windows Phone users but now you can do so with your iOS device. It won’t be automatically available but you will be prompted when the update is installed. You can choose to turn on video backup as well. The Verge reported that the app will upload all photos in your camera roll once you enable the feature for the first time.

Xbox One focuses on more than games

By Sonya Davidson

The lead up to the release of the new Xbox One last week was exciting gamers got into party mode on the eve of the launch. Literally. As midnight approached, I ventured to Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronton where a line up was already in place just after work hours. At the head of the line was a group of dancing Zombies and everyone was in good spirits. With DJ "Doctor G" playing with the crowd, and throngs of media hovering, you just knew that this was a going to be a fun event! Yes, he did play Thriller! 

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