Last week I posted news about the Windows XP Professional for Embedded Systems Event at TVP on 21st October. Following on from that post, I’d also like to tell you about a series of online seminars relating to specific aspects of Windows Embedded technology. While not perhaps for those of you already teaching embedded technologies, the seminars may prove useful if you are considering future curriculum developments.   Windows Embedded and Gaming 16th September 2008 9:00 - 10:00 Windows Embedded

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Paul Oliver is the founder of Legendary Studios and an experienced XNA developer.  His Guest blog posts will chronicle the development involved in converting a small existing Xbox 360 game to be Zune ready to coincide with the full release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 ! With the release of the CTP of XNA 3.0 and the ability to dev games for the Zune Arthur and I decided to take a break from Legendary Studios work and port a cute little XNA game we wrote back in Sept. The initial code that we will

I'm currently at Wheaton HIgh School recieving the age old "I want to make a game, but how?" question. 1. Get it installed: http://creators.xna.com/Education/newtoxna.aspx 2. Make Pong in 5 Minutes: http://blogs.msdn.com/devschool/archive/2008/02/03/pong-in-5-minutes.aspx 3. Get Rolling wtih Dan's 3D Game Development Tutorial: http://blogs.msdn.com/dawate/archive/2008/02/05/building-a-3d-game-in-xna-from-scratch-free-video-tutorial-series-now-available.aspx That's it! Any questions you know where

We are excited to announce the impending release of XNA Games Studio 3.0 this summer giving (among other things) the ability for all XNA authors to publish games to Xbox Live Marketplace and in the process, to earn reputation, fame and even income. This represents a huge opportunity for your students. You can read all about this on the XNA Team Blog and also FAQ on the XNA forums . To compliment this new development we have opened out access to the XNA Creators' Club via DreamSpark . This new programme

The UK has a well deserved reputation in the field of Games Development and yet so far is not well represented at this world-class conference aboard the luxury Celebrity Century cruise ship, . It promises to be a very informative and fun event and will provide an excellent opportunity for networking too. If you have any questions then please let me know. Claire General session and tech talk speakers include: Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists John Cash, Technical Director,

Ed Dunhill is on the case again and today blogged about the XNA v2 beta which is now ready to download. His post gives all the detail you need to get started and you will be pleased to read that it is free and no uninstalling of v1 is required. Let us know what you think! Claire Technorati Tags: XNA , Beta , Teaching. Academic , Games

For those of you that have been following the tidal wave of interest in XNA Game development , there's a conference coming up soon that you might find interesting.  This year's Indie MMO Game Developers Conference is happening at the Minneapolis Convention Center on March 29th & 30th, 2008. For more information, check out Steve Loethen's blog post from earlier today: Steve Loethen's Blog:  Get your game on.... Technorati Tags: codetolive , xbox , games

This is a heads-up that the current release of XNA Extras requires some changes before it will work with the newly released XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2 . I'm hoping to find some time later this week (yes, I know it's already late in the week) and get an updated version up this weekend. Sorry about the delay!