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Dust: An Elysian Tail Is XNA’s Best Looking Game
11:40AM Michael McWhertor
Dust: An Elysian Tail, an entry in Microsoft’s XNA Dream Build Play competition, is not only the best looking video game we’ve seen from the contest, it might be the best looking downloadable Xbox 360 title ever. More »
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Microsoft Closes Game Development Program
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft have been getting into user-created gaming in a big way of late. First Xbox LIVE Community Games, then Kodu. Which means they have little use for their original games creator, Popfly. More »
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Kodu Game Lab Micro-Review: Baby’s First Game Development Kit
10:00AM AJ Glasser | Who says you have to go to college for an expensive game developer’s education? Microsoft Research’s Kodu puts the power of a dev kit right in your hand for a mere $US5. More »
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12:00PM David Wildgoose | We know that the Xbox 360’s Community Games don’t sell and don’t make any money. Aussie developer Halfbrick has a solution.
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Aussie Dev Calls For Community Games Ratings System
12:00PM David Wildgoose | We know that the Xbox 360’s Community Games don’t sell and don’t make any money. Aussie developer Halfbrick has a solution.
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XNA Games Don’t Sell, Don’t Make Money
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Much was made of Microsoft’s attempt at gestating a user-created gaming platform on the 360 with their Community Games service. But six months on from launch, how well is it faring? More »
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Xbox Live Arcade Finally Gets A Dishwasher
3:35AM Mike Fahey | A year and a half of drooling comes to fruition this Wednesday, as The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai rides a blood-soaked guitar riff onto Xbox Live Arcade. More »
When’s All This Xbox 360 Stuff Coming to Australia?
1:00PM David Wildgoose | Microsoft’s CES announcement of Kodu, its LittleBigPlanet rip-off take on the whole user-generated content craze, looks really cool. (Almost as cool as two hot chicks playing Xbox together.) Thing is, Kodu is part of the XNA Community Games Channel, which isn’t actually available in Australia. Also at CES, Microsoft revealed a launch date for Primetime, the Xbox Live game show channel where players compete with each other for real prizes in formats like 1 vs 100.
Will we be getting any of these features in Australia? I put this question to Microsoft… More » Kodu CES Presentation Clip
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Kodu is Microsoft’s crack at this whole user-generated content thing. Technically, it looks promising! But my Lord, XNA title or not, those visuals need some work. More »
Microsoft Lets New Territories In To XNA Gang
9:20AM Stuart Houghton | Now that Microsoft has got the New Xbox Experience launch out of the way and we have had a few days to dig into the Community Games channel, Redmond has decided to open up the service to more developers. More »
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