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Much like they did for the PS4, NVIDIA has announced they will be supporting the Xbox One with their PhysX and Apex SDKs. Used to create realistic physic effects (corrosive ammo effects in Borderlands 2 or Batman’s cape in Arkham City for example), these technologies are among the most popular for designing real time effects; both have been present in PC gaming for some time, and it shows some of the new ways that console gaming is catching up to their desktop brethren.

For more info, check out the full release after the jump.

It’s now 20 minutes since the Microsft Xbox Reveal event has ended, and we now have solid details on what we now know to be the Xbox One. Announcing the new console from a specially-built marquee at their campus in Redmond, Microsoft has hailed the Xbox One as the future of entertainment. Join us after the jump as we go through the presentation to give you the lowdown on Microsoft’s newest black box.

In case you’ve missed the news plastered all over the internet, Microsoft is revealing the next generation of the Xbox line today from their campus in Redmond, WA at 10am PT (1pm ET/6pm BST). You can watch the event as it happens on Xbox Live, Xbox.com and, in the US & Canada, broadcast on Spike TV. Also, if you have a Windows Phone 8 you can download the free Live Event Player app to watch the reveal.

Join us back here after the event for our round-up of all the details on Microsoft’s latest console.

Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb (aka Major Nelson) has just announced that the new Xbox will be revealed on May 21st at 10am PDT at a special press event on the Xbox campus. The event will be streamed live on xbox.com and Xbox Live, and will also be broadcast on Spike TV; then at E3 this year, MIcrosoft will detail the game lineup for the new system.

You can find Major Nelson’s post about the announcement on his blog, and we’ll keep you informed as more news become available in the coming weeks.

After a pretty well known spat between Microsoft and Apple over in-app subscriptions, Microsoft’s SkyDrive 3.0 is now available in the Apple App Store. Now, accessing and managing your SkyDrive-stored files is available to iOS users, and includes iPhone 5 and iPad Mini support, downloading of full resolution photos to your device, improved support for opening SkyDrive files in other iOS apps, updated app icons and UI elements, as well as other bug fixes. Could this be a sign that peace is at hand…and perhaps a version of Office may actually make its way onto iOS soon?

The King is (almost) dead.

Talk about a great run. If you’re one of those folks still rocking XP, it’ll be time to move on soon. At least you’ve been given a year’s lead time to examine your options.

Windows XP support will officially end in 364 days. Thinking about it, it’s somewhat surprising that Microsoft has continued to support XP as long as it has. When MS pulls the plug, the OS will be almost 13 years old.

Of course the OS will continue to function, but without hotfixes and security updates XP will become increasingly more vulnerable to malware and attack. A personal user might be willing to engage in a little risk, but businesses should really start looking now at potential solutions for their employees.

The Windows Blog has more info, including links for data migration to Windows 7 or Windows 8.

It’s the beginning of the end of an era. Time to start letting it go…

Not to mention some games too!

Ahead of the “Blue” update, Microsoft is polishing up some of their built-in apps for Windows 8. Mail, People, and Calendar are all getting a once over.

Mail is getting the most polish, and it arguably needed it. Now you can manage folders better, while also being able to filter only unread emails (my favorite feature from Windows Phone). Also improved are editing, hyper-linking and copy+pasting. Writing out an email is a far less painful experience now. Lastly, while the mail app will sync a specified amount of time (2 weeks, one month, etc), the app can now perform a search on the server side to allow you to search emails farther back than the app is set to sync.

The latest edition to Halo 4′s Infinity Multiplayer will drop April 4th in the form of the Castle Map Pack. Containing 3 new maps that place an emphasis on vehicle carnage and team objective gameplay, the Castle Map Pack is the final piece of content contained in the War Games Map Pass; so if you’ve been holding out on picking that up, now’s the time. The three maps run from the idyllic Daybreak, to the tunnels of Outcast and the urban sprawl of Perdition–and come with 9 new achievements.

The Castle Map Pack is out April 8 and will cost 800 MSP; or you can save 15% on the price of all three map packs by buying the War Games Map Pass for 2000 MSP. Click past the jump for the full PR.

We’re BIG fans of Hidden Path here at YTR. They’re responsible for one of my all time favorite tower defense games with their amazing Defense Grid series, and now I find out they’re developing the updated HD re-release of ‘Age of Empires II.’ It’s almost not fair. One of my fave Tower Defense games and now one of my all time fave Real Time Strategy games as well?

I was SUCH an AoE2 junky, I even had a version which I could play on Windows Mobile PDAs. So I win the “nerdiest gamer of the minute” award for the thirty seconds or so that you’re reading this blog post.

Expect the game to drop in April, where at that time Steam will manage to take even more of my money. Gamespot has the official trailer. Watch it. Learn it. Live it.

Sure we already had a Hangout earlier this week–but why stop at just one??

In this edition of YourTechReport Hangout, Juan and I get a bit feisty and chat about the tech companies that have rubbed us the wrong way this week. But fear not: we yell because we care.

Enjoy!