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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM by danielfe
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a Technology Pipeline...at the same time Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a new, upcoming title Storyline: Darth Vader's secret apprentice, between episodes Read More...
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Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:40 PM by danielfe
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research) 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 Read More...
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Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:00 PM by danielfe
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker: Scott Austin: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Microsoft I just interviewed Scott and we'll be posting the video on Channel 9 in the next few days Games N+ - Level editor Read More...
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This Week on Channel 9: Feb 8th Episode

Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 9:52 AM by danielfe
This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Read More...
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Personal Note to Joystiq: There is no Coding4Fun Wii60 Conspiracy

Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:20 AM by danielfe
Some of you may have seen the recent Joystiq post "MS gift guide suggests Wii controller", also linked to here and here quoted below. Ever since Peter Moore made his famous statement ostensibly encouraging people to buy a Nintendo Wii , the Wii60 ideal Read More...
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XNA Open House Pictures, and the XNA Acronym

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:04 AM by danielfe
As Major Nelson mentioned in his blog post , XNA had an open house on Monday night at the Xbox campus. Here's a video of the launch event including Major Nelson interviewing Dave Weller . Unfortunately I only had my camera phone, so the pictures aren't Read More...
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XNA Game Studio Express RTM'd - Create Pong on your Xbox

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 8:52 AM by danielfe
Congratulations to the XNA team for getting XNA Game Studio Express out the door! You can Download Game Studio Express here Clint has a good summary on the Coding4Fun blog XNA Blog Announcement Details To get you started, Coding4Fun's ZMan has a how-to Read More...
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Xbox 2 and XNA Studio at GDC

Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:58 AM by danielfe
Xbox 2 will have a multicore processor and be able to perform one trillion calculations per second. Not only that, you can use XNA Studio , built on Visual Studio Team System to develop games. Sweetness . Quoted from the Microsoft press release A well-balanced Read More...
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Summer of Express Contest

Posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:27 AM by danielfe
In coordination with the launch of the Express products , I'm “Super-Excited”™ to announce the Summer of Express Contest on Channel9 !!! It's time to break out the hot dogs and belt out some code as the good folks at Channel9 our hosting Read More...
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Halo 2 = November 9th

Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 11:03 PM by danielfe
From 1stUp , Halo 2 will be released November 9th. Mark your calendars, and prepare for a 1-2% drop in productivity. There will also be a limited-edition version pre-order version: “Microsoft also confirmed that gamers will be able to pre-order Read More...
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EA supporting Xbox live!!

Posted Monday, May 10, 2004 9:25 PM by danielfe
Wohoo!! Electronic Arts is fully supporting Xbox live!!! Gamespot has the inside scoop . “This evening at in Los Angeles, two of the biggest names in games--Microsoft and Electronic Arts--announced a new partnership that will fundamentally alter Read More...
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The easiest way to connect your Xbox wirelessly

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:23 AM by danielfe
The Microsoft Broadband Networking team just released this wireless adapter supports both 802.11b  and  802.11g (54 mb). If you're a newbie to networking, you should also definitely check out the How to Use Your Network section . The cool thing Read More...
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Red vs Blue PDC Special Edition!!!

Posted Friday, September 12, 2003 8:37 PM by danielfe
[Keller and I just watched this classic] There is a special Red versus Blue  advertisement on GDN. It's an absolute must see and even includes the timeless Steve Ballmer "Developers, Developers, developers..." clip (he says it 35 times).   Read More...
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Rockets on Prisoner Award

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:01 AM by danielfe
/. mentions the "Academy Awards of Halo Videos," the first annual Rockets on Prisoner award , including categories like: Best Movie Best Cinematography Best Screenplay Best Musical Score Best Editing, Sounds, Visual Effects Best Documentary  Read More...
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