Today at the lunch table I discovered that I was the only person there not to have done any programming whilst in bed. I'm not sure what to make of this. For a minute I considered this as meaning I wasn't as "hardcode" as the rest of them, but then...

In the time it took me to post about XNA Game Studio 3.0, I was able to download and install it, and create this amazing smash-hit title: Goat Attack. Yes, it really is that easy to make games from the 1980s in about an hour. This one has a scrolling...

I told you more good things were coming: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta has gone live. This is a huge update to the XNA development system, and delightfully includes support for writing games for the Zune media player. Yup, don't let those fruit-themed phone...

It's a great time to be an Xbox fan: the price is coming down this Friday to 180 Euro, or 160 UK quid for the Arcade version - that's quite a deal. You can also get versions with 60Gb and 120Gb hard drives, which are probably a better deal in the long...

This weekend was the first weekend I’ve been in Dublin and left to my own devices. It was also the first weekend I’ve had transport other than my bicycle, as I have ironed out the issues relating to importing my motorcycle from Seattle and got it legal...

Recently I was trying to debug some code, and getting nowhere. So I went for a walk, and within about thirty seconds of being away from the problem realized I had to be looking outside the bounds of an array. When I got back to my desk, voila - that was...

As pointed out by Shawn Hargreaves on his excellent blog , the content from the GameFest 2008 conference is now available online. You'll find all the details here . You'll find useful information and previews of Game Studio 3.0.