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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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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: 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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XNA Game Studio Express RTM'd - Create Pong on your Xbox

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 8:52 AM by danielfe
Congratulations to the XNA team for getting XNA Game Studio Express out the door! You can Download Game Studio Express here Clint has a good summary on the Coding4Fun blog XNA Blog Announcement Details To get you started, Coding4Fun's ZMan has a how-to Read More...
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Halo 2 = November 9th

Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 11:03 PM by danielfe
From 1stUp , Halo 2 will be released November 9th. Mark your calendars, and prepare for a 1-2% drop in productivity. There will also be a limited-edition version pre-order version: “Microsoft also confirmed that gamers will be able to pre-order Read More...
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EA supporting Xbox live!!

Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 9:25 PM by danielfe
Wohoo!! Electronic Arts is fully supporting Xbox live!!! Gamespot has the inside scoop . “This evening at in Los Angeles, two of the biggest names in games--Microsoft and Electronic Arts--announced a new partnership that will fundamentally alter Read More...
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The easiest way to connect your Xbox wirelessly

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:23 AM by danielfe
The Microsoft Broadband Networking team just released this wireless adapter supports both 802.11b  and  802.11g (54 mb). If you're a newbie to networking, you should also definitely check out the How to Use Your Network section . The cool thing Read More...
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Rockets on Prisoner Award

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:01 AM by danielfe
/. mentions the "Academy Awards of Halo Videos," the first annual Rockets on Prisoner award , including categories like: Best Movie Best Cinematography Best Screenplay Best Musical Score Best Editing, Sounds, Visual Effects Best Documentary  Read More...
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Halo, H4x0rs, and the life of a Blogosphere story

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:22 AM by danielfe
Semi-random stream of consciousness... Halo EricGu turned me onto Red vs. Blue while we were at the speaker lounge at TechEd and I started having uncontrollable fits of laughter in what was a quiet room.  They're making 22 episodes, so make Read More...
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