For those of you who joined us at the Royal Festival Hall on 1st October and, especially for those who were otherwise engaged, please find below the session by Thore Graepel, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Ralf Herbrich on Microsoft Research Talk on CS Inside Halo 3 True Ranking System: If you are unable to view the above clip, please do let me know. Best wishes, Allison

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Microsoft Ireland’s new team of Student Partners.  They were incredibly enthusiastic, and I’m looking forward to the great things they’re planning on doing over the next school year. I talked to the students about as much as I could cram into a little over an hour.  So we did a brief overview of Silverlight (they even got a sneak preview of the Silverlight NBC Olympics application!), talked about XNA and game development and lastly walked through

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Microsoft Ireland’s new team of Student Partners.  They were incredibly enthusiastic, and I’m looking forward to the great things they’re planning on doing over the next school year. I talked to the students about as much as I could cram into a little over an hour.  So we did a brief overview of Silverlight (they even got a sneak preview of the Silverlight NBC Olympics application!), talked about XNA and game development and lastly walked through

Dave Mitchell came all the way from Seattle during his Thanksgiving holiday to talk with students at the XNA tour. He is a director at Microsoft for XNA, and he certainly knows his stuff. Dave gave the opening keynote of the XNA European Tour, where he talked about the "Ongoing Democratization of Game Development." It's an excellent overview of how the games industry is changing and opening up. It's not a country club anymore - XNA allows anyone to play in this space, just like sites such as YouTube

Dave Mitchell came all the way from Seattle during his Thanksgiving holiday to talk with students at the XNA tour. He is a director at Microsoft for XNA, and he certainly knows his stuff. Dave gave the opening keynote of the XNA European Tour, where he talked about the "Ongoing Democratization of Game Development." It's an excellent overview of how the games industry is changing and opening up. It's not a country club anymore - XNA allows anyone to play in this space, just like sites such as YouTube

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP, and as he says in his highly entertaining talk below - it's what all Microsoft Student Partners should aspire to be. Watch as Rob tells bad jokes and demos XNA Game Studio on his MacBook Pro. I laughed out loud at his descriptions of *alternative* games like "Hide the Controller" and "Controller Racing." Enjoy! Technorati Tags: XNA Game Studio 2.0 , XNA , Microsoft , Video Game Development

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP, and as he says in his highly entertaining talk below - it's what all Microsoft Student Partners should aspire to be. Watch as Rob tells bad jokes and demos XNA Game Studio on his MacBook Pro. I laughed out loud at his descriptions of *alternative* games like "Hide the Controller" and "Controller Racing." Enjoy! Technorati Tags: XNA Game Studio 2.0 , XNA , Microsoft , Video Game Development Cross posted from Martha's Blog

Back in November, Dublin was host to an event called the XNA Game Studio Tour. It was a full day jam-packed with superb XNA experts talking about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 release, showing off features and real-life examples of XNA applications and games. Liam (pictured below in the video) was kind enough to pass along videos of the event so that we could share it with more people, as the presenters were all quite good! I took some time this week and turned them into Silverlight applications,

Yesterday in Trinity College something landed. Something big. Something new and fun. Something that might keep me up late at night... The XNA European Tour began right here in Dublin, filling two 150-person lecture halls for the entire day with 300+ students and game developers. In fact we had been expecting half of that, but as registrations came pouring in, Steve Collins, a lecturer at Trinity, was able to put together an additional room and have the speakers do morning and afternoon sessions!