The Game Development in Computer Science Education conference has been renamed and this year’s event is called the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games . This is the premier educational conference for faculty who use game development to teach computer science concepts and principles. In the past we have had a small number of high school computer science faculty come on the conference but I am hoping that by giving people early warning we can get more this time. A lot

Over at the XNA blog they have announced that XNA Game Studio Express version 2.0 has now been released. Full information and links to the download may be found here . Unlike the beta the released version allows PCs and Xbox 360s to communicate over the network. There are other changes and enhancements as well but the XNA team does a much better job of explaining them than I could hope to. BTW if you are using XNA GSE and have questions you will want to know about the XNA Forums . These forums are