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Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats

markjo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:49:35 GMT

On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day.

The videos are now all online in glorious Silverlight. And I've embedded the big man here, he was on fire that day:

The videos:

There is embed code on the site for you to put the videos on your blog/site/etc - Student Technology Day

Enjoy!

Xbox 360 + Students + Paul Smith = Freeplay lounge and GamesCity event

markjo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:40 GMT

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend but it looked like a cracking event (pulled together mainly by Claire on our team!). A great event hosted by Nottingham council and Nottingham Trent University.

We hosted a bunch of academics and students at two venues - a Paul Smith cinema and bar called Bluu to show them what's hot about the games industry and the Microsoft developer platform, particularly looking at XNA.

For any students that attended, I hope you signed up to the Imagine Cup and are thinking of entering the Game Development or Project Hoshimi competitions!!

You can see more photos on Andy's Flickr set here. Kudos to the guys at Rare, Ginger and the Xbox team for their support. Also to the Fragdolls who came to the event.

(Now what was my XBL gamertag again so I can play Sithers at Halo 3?!)

XNA Studio 2.0 announced

markjo — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:37:06 GMT

Michael Klucher has just announced XNA Studio 2.0 detailing some of the enhancements coming in the XNA Framework and XNA Studio. Coming in the late part of 2007 according to the blog post.

If you are a student interested in making your mark in the games industry then head on over to the Imagine Cup 2008 as you might be pleasantly surprised with the addition of an XNA competition.