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Are you a student, developer, or hobbyist interested in developing or learning to develop an Xbox 360 XNA game and are 16+ years old? If Yes, sign up for this amazing competition. It includes a free 1 year XNA creator club trial membership. Teams have
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The final instalment of the Dreamspark website is now live. The site has undergone an upgrade in design and UX making it even easier to access the software you want for free. If you are not familiar with Dreamspark - The program offers Microsoft’s Developer
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What a fantastic event, Student Day (SD) attracted over 1200 students both from Universities and High Schools around NSW and some interstate. Student Day was the platform for the official launch of Microsoft Dreamspark and StudentstoBusiness (S2B) in
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The ground swell of interest in XNA Games Studio never ceases to amaze me - it's truly an underground phenomenon! Accordingly, there's never a shortage of materials produced by members of the community teaching you how to do things with XNA. A while back
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Gamefest is probably the biggest game technology event on the Microsoft calendar. The 2007 conference hapened earlier this year (in the U.S, of course), and the presentations and some of the audio from speaker sessions have now been posted online for
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OK, as many of you will know, 'Mix On Campus' is going down in Melbourne tomorrow from 10am to 4pm. Why would you know this? Because it's all that I've been harping on about of late (you can get more details here ). Anyway, amongst our esteemed guest
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Long time readers of this blog will know that 'Mix On Campus' has been talked about for quite some time now - if you haven't already registered, you can do so at http://mixoncampus.spaces.live.com . Well the speaker schedule for all 3 cities is finally
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I run Imagine Cup each year in Australia. It's (primarily) a software design competition, and is open to university students worldwide. The prizes are great, students get treated like rockstars and it's all a cracking good time. The following is from
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Luke Drumm's a great guy. And he's also a senior consultant for Readify , who just so happen to be one of the top .NET consultancies and training firms in Australia. Luke's also a game developer hobbyist, and has presented at Tech.Ed and Australian Code
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Nick Hodge , Microsoft's Professional Geek (yes, that is his actual job title), recently interviewed Ross Brown and Penny Drennan from QUT about lessons learnt from the first ever semester of teaching the Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment
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