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The Xbox 360 Arcade has now launched, making the popular gaming console a more family-friendly and affordable system. The new system features a wireless controller, an HDMI connection for high-def output, 256 MB of memory for storing games, and 5 games. The included games are: "PAC-MAN…

Since the early era of video games, "Tron" has been synonymous as both a landmark CGI film and the engaging arcade games inspired by that film. In honor of the 25th anniversary of "Tron," Disney Interactive Studios announced the classic arcade games Tron and Discs of Tron will be…

You may not have heard of them, but Chair Entertainment has been bringing you great games for years now. Perhaps you've played Undertow on XBOX Live arcade? If not, you should- especially since it was just named XBLA Game of the Year by Official Xbox Magazine.  And…

Have you ever played a first person shooter? Then you've probably played against computer controlled players known as "bots" which are computer programs designed with artificial intelligence. Up until now the only way to do create your own bot for a game like Unreal Tournament 3 was to…

Nick Gravelyn - http://www.nickgravelyn.com/ Download: http://codeplex.com/sammythesnake Software: Visual C# Express Editions, XNA Game Studios 3.0 Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 8 hours Cost: Free Artwork courtesy of George Clingerman of XNADevelopment.com Side note: XNA is…

In this article I'll take you along for the ride as I attack the learning curve required to create a fun, interactive application using both the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Afterwards, you'll have a flexible trivia…

In this article, I will discuss how I have built a 2 player 8-Ball game in Silverlight (play here). I will explain how I used the Expression tools to design the graphics and various .NET techniques to enable user control and game animation. Justin Petersen Coding4Fun at…

  In this article I'll review the steps to creating a WPF-based touch-screen scoreboard application that we use in our Clarity Cricket recreational dart league. In doing so, I'll show some examples of how to create custom animations in Visual Studio .NET and wire them up to StoryBoards in…

In this article, The ZMan walks through the final steps required to get TinyTennis, a Pong clone, running on your Xbox 360. The ZMan (Andy Dunn) TheZBuffer.com Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free (Creators Club membership required to deploy to Xbox, additional cost…

Have you ever played a first person shooter? Then you've probably played against computer controlled players known as "bots" which are computer programs designed with artificial intelligence. Up until now the only way to do create your own bot for a game like Unreal Tournament was to…