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February 2008 - Posts

Microspotting lands an interview with Mini-Microsoft

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:38 PM by danielfe
Kudos to Ariel Stallings , Microsoft employee and author the Microspotting blog (one of my favorite new blogs) on landing a virtual Mini-Microsoft interview . My personal opinion of Mini is a bit mixed, and I've definitely disagreed with Mini in the past Read More...
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Popfly Nominated for C|Net WebWare 100!

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:41 PM by danielfe
Kudos to the Popfly team for being nominated to C|Net's Webware 100 ! If you like Popfly, as John mentions , go out and vote for them Read More...
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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Panel: Future of MMOs

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:56 PM by danielfe
Speakers: MC of event, Jon Wood - Managing Editor MMORPG.com Jack Emmert - Founder, Cryptic Studios, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villans One other person, Mark Jacobs or "Matt" from Cryptic Ray Muzyka - General Manager of Bioware, haven't Read More...
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Keynote: The Next 20 Years of Gaming

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:52 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil [Aside: One of the best talks I've ever been to...ever] Rough notes below Acceleration of Progress Studying exponential growth of technology Games are the cutting edge, VR will be more competitive VR advantages - become someone else, Read More...
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Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM by danielfe
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a Technology Pipeline...at the same time Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a new, upcoming title Storyline: Darth Vader's secret apprentice, between episodes Read More...
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Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:40 PM by danielfe
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research) 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 Read More...
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Session: WiiFit: Creating a Brand New Interface for the Home Console

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:02 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Takao Sawano WiiFit Examples Family weighing themselves and tracking health Father doing push ups on balance board Mother doing yoga on the board Games: Kid taking headers playing soccer goalie Games: Grandfather using ski-jump Games: Mother Read More...
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Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:01 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Rob Pardo, Blizzard Entertainment Rough notes below   Game Balance - solo to max level - important role in a group, raid, and group PVP - Starcraft - Race totally different - Better players can win games fast - Offense over defense (don't Read More...
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Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:00 PM by danielfe
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker: Scott Austin: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Microsoft I just interviewed Scott and we'll be posting the video on Channel 9 in the next few days Games N+ - Level editor Read More...
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DreamSpark: Free Microsoft software for students

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 9:14 PM by danielfe
DreamSpark is a new program that launched today (Feb 18th) at Stanford Univ. with Bill Gates giving the keynote. If you're a student you get Windows Server 2003 Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Microsoft Expression Read More...
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This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Special guest Scott Hanselman

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 2:57 PM by danielfe
  We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media ) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45) - Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Read More...
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The Bill Gates Interview

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:51 AM by danielfe
I'm such a huge Bill Gates fan, not only for his technical and business brilliance, but for all of the work his foundation has done. That's why when Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre told me I was going to be interviewing Bill, I was....beside myself. Read More...
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This Week on Channel 9: Feb 8th Episode

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 9:52 AM by danielfe
This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Read More...
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Episode 1 of our Weekly Recap Show is up

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 8:27 AM by danielfe
Kudos to Brian for editing everything last night, I think he's sleeping on my couch right now, but our video is now live , check it out as we go through lots in this episode Episode #1 Recap MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg Duncan's Cool Thing Read More...
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