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Congratulations to Torpex Games for shipping Schizoid on the Xbox LIVE Arcade! The game is the first game to be made commercially available on the Xbox 360 that was built entirely with the XNA Game Studio. Not only that, but the game made Penny Arcade’s PAX10 list, too. According to the XNA blog,…

Cam-Trax lets you play any PC game you want using almost any object you can find as a game controller - you just need to have a PC and a webcam to do so. The software uses the webcam to scan the object you’re holding and then the object can be used to control your game! (See it in action here).…

Anunciamos hoje o segundo deployment (disponibilidade comercial) do Surface. O primeiro cliente a receber foi a AT&T que já tem o Surface para seus clientes conhecerem os telefones celulares da rede. O segundo cliente é o Harrah's Entertainment que é o dono do Rio…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Ed cover: - Channel 9 v4 beta (0:35) - Beta of Community Games on Xbox LIVE (2:10) - Silverlight 2 beta 1 screencasts by Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond (4:35) - Innovative Pointing Device, "Place to Pee" (5:35) - Preview of Dynamix AX…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: - Brian Keller back this week (0 - 0:50) - Microsoft withdraws proposal from Yahoo (0:50 - 1:24) - Expression Studio 2 now available (1:24 - 2:40) - XNA Game Studio CTP now available so you can build Zune game (2:40 - 4:00) -  Windows…

Nem deu tempo de postar as notícias do CTP de XNA 3.0 e o Jalf da Sharp Games já postou o primeiro jogo brasileiro, e possivelmente do mundo, para Zune no site da comunidade. Parabéns ao Jalf pelo belo feito! Confira o vídeo aqui: Video: My First Zune Game

Já está no ar o Community Technical Preview do XNA Game Studio 3.0. O XNA GS é o kit para desenvolvimento de vídeo games que a Microsoft disponibiliza. Ele roda em cima de Visual C# Express Edition e Visual Studio 2005 e 2008. Ou seja, ele é totalmente gratuito e permite o desenvolvimento…

XNA Game Studio really does give you all you need. Not only do they give you the tools to make the games that you want, but they also give you the training and tutorials to give you the skills to do it. I ran across one of their many game design challenges to see exactly how it…

Krishna Kumar delivers the final Open Space session at MIX with some great information about Programming your Xbox 360. With XNA, any developer can create games for the PC or Xbox 360 (and eventually the Zune). Krishna demonstrates a game that XNA developers can use as a reference example, including…

Think you have what it takes to be a video game designer? Well XNA is offering you the opportunity and the tools. Meet me at GDC next year...