Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He works with the Applied Games Group. He and his team are doing quite a lot of interesting work as you will see in his talk, titled "Learning to Race." He talks about all of this, as well as a showcase of an internship there. Enjoy! Technorati Tags: XNA Game Studio , XNA , Microsoft

Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He works with the Applied Games Group. He and his team are doing quite a lot of interesting work as you will see in his talk, titled "Learning to Race." He talks about all of this, as well as a showcase of an internship there. Enjoy! Technorati Tags: XNA Game Studio , XNA , Microsoft Cross posted from Martha's Blog

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

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!