Regardless of whether you are developing for PC, Xbox 360, or Windows Phone, your game will most likely be viewed on some kind of LCD screen. An important characteristic of LCD technology is the response time , which measures how long pixels take to change...

The simple answer is that the file you are trying to load must not actually exist in the location you are trying to load it from! And yet people sometimes get stuck on this error, unable to open their file and with no idea how to figure out why this is...

I have no idea how they managed to find time to do this at the same time as finishing up XNA Game Studio 4.0, but my colleagues Tom and Dean have written a most excellent book with the pithy title XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows...

You want to implement save games. You’ve decided to do this using isolated storage   (perhaps because you are targeting Windows Phone, or because you want something simpler than the Xbox StorageContainer APIs) . But since XNA is so awesomely portable...

The XNA Framework provides no less than three different APIs for reading data out of files. This table attempts to explain the differences, and thus help you understand which to choose: Title Container Isolated Storage Storage Container Purpose Read content...

WinForms and XNA have quite different ideas about how a program should run. XNA assumes that games are always in motion, moving and animating. It constantly cycles around the game loop, calling your Update and Draw methods. This is convenient for most...