Xbox 360

Today's hardware Friday project by Joel Ivory Johnson is one that I thought interesting in a number of ways. One, that it shows how we can use the XBox controller without XNA, yet still using managed languages and also as a non-trivial example of how to translate native calls for use in a managed…

At the recent Mix10 in Las Vegas, I was able to sit down with Christopher Bennage of Silver Arcade to talk to him about Silverlight games, XNA, Windows Phone, and about the future of their gaming platform. You can visit Silver Arcade, play some games, and even publish your own…

Microsoft Lync is the next generation of Office Communications Server, and brings together video and voice communications, presence, file transfer, instant messaging  and more into one cohesive package for the workplace. The latest release of the platform was launched in New York yesterday,…

Want a more realistic feeling (and looking) drum kit controller for your garage Rockband,.. err band? Check out Ion Audio's custom Rockband drum kit controller featuring four toms, three symbols and a kick drum pedal.The symbols are colour coded in parallel with the toms so you can mix and…

This Holiday season is certain to be merry considering all the great new products being offered to you from Microsoft Hardware, Vista powered machines and Games for Windows. Check out some of the sexy new Dell laptops,  BlueTrack mice and of course...some great games for Windows…

We’re only a month away from the launch of Xbox Kinect, and whilst a huge amount has been written about some of the kick ass, motion-controlled games that are coming down the line (Kinect Adventures is definitely my favourite), there’s another really cool feature that hasn’t has as much limelight –…

There has been much discussion among HD DVD and BD enthusiast sites like AVS Forum about whether banding seen in some titles is due to the encoding process or the source. I can't speak for other codecs, but for VC-1, our codec does a great job of being accurate to the source, and so banding seen in…

If you haven't had a chance to check out the Trailor for "Fracture" yet...it's coming out this October on the Xbox 360 and looks well...I'll let you decide.  We're starting to see a lot more visuals for upcoming titles thanks to the pending E3 Convention.    Here's…

Happy Holidays!  I take you into the future with a plethora of products that Microsoft will be releasing this Holiday Season.  These are considered our Platinum gifts like the Xbox 360 Elite, The 120 G Zune Player, SONY VAIO TZ, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Dual, Samsung HDTV with…

Turn your XNA projects into cash with Xbox Live Community Games.Coming holiday 2008, Xbox Live Community Games will give XNA game developers (that's YOU!) the opportunity to publish and sell their projects to millions of gamers worldwide via the Xbox Live…