I took my first MCTS exam (application foundation) last Thursday. It was actually a lot tougher than I expected but what was interesting was that in many of the questions, you could eliminate 2 of the 4 choices almost immediately. Given that you only...

Very interesting video clip on brutes in Halo 3: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/duncan/halo-3-video-documentary-et-tu-brute/ If you're an avid Halo fan, this should get you quite excited about Halo 3.

Rocket commander on XNA including source code: http://exdream.no-ip.info/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=442152d0-a014-47de-b9b1-4e8aed1d9bd3

Or rather, why the official Playstation magazine editor will get an XBox rather than a PS3: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=7344653&publicUserId=5380375

Here are the slides from the session by the National University of Singapore (NUS) describing the start-up environment in NUS.

Slightly late for all of us here in Asia, but I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Greetings from Microsoft Singapore: http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/xmas/default.mspx

All hard core Halo fans, check this out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLt5_ME_2_M

Here are the slides for the XNA talk during the last Walk the Success Lane Seminar.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-12-14T234613Z_01_N14429511_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIDEOGAMES-NPD.xml&WTmodLoc=TechNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-6 And more news on GoW selling some 2 million copies (some very interesting...

Thank you to all who attended the Walk the Success Lane Seminar last December 9 in the Microsoft auditorium. As promised, I'm posting Chewy's slides on Open XML development. Darren - if you're reading this, please send me your slides on XNA so that...

Need I say more? Check out the official announcement on the XNA Team's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/12/11/xna-game-studio-express-has-been-released.aspx

Thank you to all the students who attended the architecture sharing session today in SMU. It's great to see you all attend despite it already being a school holiday (well, at least for some of you). I've attached the slides shared by Linda and Chewy....

I don't own a PS3, so I can't really say for myself, but these two guys are not impressed. But I can say that Gears of War on an XBox 360 is absolutely amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJ8nwG___k

It's finally official. Today the Ecma General Assembly voted almost unanimously to approve the Office Open XML formats as an official Ecma standard. They also voted to submit the standard to ISO for fast track certification. The official press release...

WSJ asks this question to Winer and Scoble. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116490323676636989-HnHPKLzkyy9xKy2wnokbd2bc_bE_20071130.html