Visual Basic developers can start holding their breath for the moment they can start building their first XNA game without writing a single line of C#. Lisa Feigenbaum, a Community Program Manager for the Visual Studio Professional team offered the good news at the end of the past week. “Senior Director Dave ... |
28 March 2011
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Microsoft continues to be handing out free Windows 7 Phone devices to developers building applications that target the next generation mobile platform. The Redmond company announced a new initiative designed to fuel the interest of developers building mobile applications back in June 2010. At that time, the software ... |
10 August 2010
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As the official launch of the first Windows Phone 7 devices is getting nearer and nearer, new info on Microsoft's mobile operating system emerge into the wild. Among them, we can count some Windows Phone 7 XNA Samples that were made available on Friday, along with some demonstrations of applications for the pla... |
7 August 2010
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Mobile application developers interested in learning a little more on what XNA Game Development for Windows Phone 7 is all about have now the possibility to attend to a webcast AT&T announced for July 15. According to the wireless carrier, all developers and designers interested in the building of mobile games for W... |
12 July 2010
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XNA Community Games are promoted by Microsoft as being one of the easiest ways for indie developers and small teams to get a game out, attract attention from the public and make some money in order to finance more projects. Unfortunately, taking a look at the list of games released, downloads and sales, the numbers a... |
31 March 2009
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As part of its publicity campaign for the November 19 release, Microsoft has confirmed that the XNA Games service would launch integrating the Xbox Live Experience. There will be more information available and options related to getting games, plus an improved visual experience for the Xbox 360 user.XNA Games wi... |
20 October 2008
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This past week, Microsoft has done quite a few interesting things. First off, it sent a nice open letter to gamers, detailing how the company and its Games for Windows initiative benefited PC gaming. Then, one of the main people behind Microsoft strategy declared that they were actively promoting the Xbox 360 gaming ... |
7 July 2008
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Last week, Microsoft announced that it plans to make user-created Xbox 360 games available for download through the console's online service, but it forgot to say how much money will the users have to pay for these games. Now they have made all the info available, thanks to Shacknews: all the games created under... |
25 February 2008
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In terms of an online sharing service offering users the ability to upload and broadcast home-produced video materials, Microsoft already has a copy of YouTube set up and ready to go. In fact, taking into consideration both Soapbox on MSN Video and MSN Video, the Redmond company has a couple of YouTube competitors, a... |
14 September 2007
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An interesting report today says something about Microsoft working close with The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University in its newly formed Innovation Laboratory, to find ways in which Microsoft XNA tools and technology can help improve computing in general and game development academic programs as well to resea... |
25 July 2007
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To celebrate the initiative, the Redmond Company has announced the debut of the Dream-Build-Play game development contest at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2007 in San Francisco. Game d3evelopers will have the opportunity of winning $10,000 and also have their title published on Xbox Live Arcade. The contest is... |
6 March 2007
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