Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy, just announced in his blog (from the OSCON conference in Portland, Oregon) that we are stepping up our participation and contribution to Open Source. First of all we are going to provide monetary sponsorship...

Yes, yes, yes, yes!!! I was hoping for this since we acquired Caligari some time ago. We just announced that Caligari trueSpace 7.6 is available for all and for free!!! ( click here to register and download ). Moreover it is now fully integrated with...

It has been rumored for a while and finally it happened!! The XNA team just announced that starting Holiday 08 XNA games developers will be able to publish their games on http://creators.xna.com and be paid for playing it!!! Here is how it is going to...

As I wrote in my previous post , I saw the Twitter Fail Whale several times this morning and then I bumped in this post at ReadWriteWeb . It tells the story of the Fail Whale image and how this work of art from an unknown artist ( Yiying Lu ) became one...

This morning I keep getting this notice from Twitter: And then saw this comic and realised this is how I feel!!!! I am getting addicted!!!!

I just received this update from the Mesh product team about the extension of the Mesh Technical Preview I referred to in my earlier post : Live Mesh still in Tech Preview, but ready for more users Our forum announcement from yesterday got a lot of people...

The Live Mesh product team just announced that it is available for everyone in the US (without the need for an invite as it was until yesterday)… What about us non Americans? Well… Live Mesh checks for your OS language settings and if it is set to EN...

Torpex Games have just released Schizoid on the the Xbox LIVE Arcade! The cool thing about this is that it is the very first commercial game (at least that we know of) completely developed in XNA. I played with a beta of it some time ago and… it is simply...

I am sitting now in the staff room at the Imagine Cup finals venue and thinking about the last few days. Most of the people left already and this is a good time to try to write down what I feel the Imagine Cup is all about. As I mentioned in my previous...

I attended the presentations delivered by the 6 Embedded, 3 Games Design and 6 Software Design finalists at the Imagine Cup Finals in Paris today (and by the way check out the event blog and the official site for more info). On top of the high quality...

As we progress toward launch of Silverlight 2, we see more and more sites adopting it to create extremely cool apps. Here are a few examples: http://linerider.com/ Line Rider is a casual game developed by Boštjan Čadež (also known as fšk on the internet...