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We've mentioned the SunBurn engine before, Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework. Now that the free SunBurn Framework Edition v2 is now available, it seems like a good time to revisit it... SunBurn 2.0 goes Gold! And FREE Framework Edition Ships!Hot off the press, SunBurn 2.0 is now fully…

From the Microsoft Research Labs in Redmond, Washington, there comes a new online game whose goal is to improve the algorithms powering Microsoft’s search engine Bing. The game, called Page Hunt, shows you various pages from around the web and then asks you to guess what queries would make Bing…

After receiving some developer tokens at PDC, Bill Reiss has been playing around developing apps using the Live Services framework. One of his first applications is “Dr. Popper,” a Live Mesh-enabled Silverlight game which he’s tweaking to store high scores in the Mesh. He said it only took him a…

As promised, the Bing “entertainment experience” is getting into gear with updates for music, tv, movies, and now more games, too. According to this post on the Bing blog, those searching for free games on Bing have several new options, including Belle's Beauty Boutique, Carniball,Fishdom Spooky…

Game developers attending GDC this week will get a first look at the latest version of the XNA toolkit – XNA Game Studio 4.0 – which provides the technology to create games for Xbox 360, Windows, and now, the Windows Phone 7 Series. Shawn Hargreaves posted on his blog about what’s new with this…

At the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft has been giving attendees a deeper look at the Windows Phone 7 Series platform, specifically as it relates to gaming. Already we’ve seen how games can be developed using Visual Studio to run on Windows PCs, the Xbox 360, and Windows Phones.   Now,…

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game, has just been updated to a new version. In the latest build, you have the opportunity to score more Quick Points by using the features found in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can also score points by…

Ribbon Hero, the Office add-in that makes learning to use Microsoft Office software a game complete with points, achievements and even Facebook integration, is now supporting OneNote. Users of either OneNote 2007 or OneNote 2010 can play Ribbon Hero to learn how to use OneNote by competing in the…

Microsoft’s classic game Flight Simulator is returning 28 years after its debut, then called “Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0.” Today, it will just be known as “Microsoft Flight.” In the new vision, Flight will reinvent itself for the era of modern PC gaming, inviting both long-time fans and new…

Have you heard of Line Rider? This game, or “toy” as it’s often called, was originally created back in 2006 as a fun little time-waster that simulated physics through the simple act of of drawing a line with your mouse on the screen. The object of the game is to draw one or more lines on the screen…