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Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:52 PM

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Monday, August 27, 2007 8:47 PM

Wired article on Halo 3

Today I've been reading an interesting Wired article about Halo 3 . I strongly recommend to you, because it's very interesting how Microsoft has setup a "gamers lab" to test their responses to playing games. They use in-game data (hot...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 1:37 PM

[Humour] Gears of War A-Team

The A-Team intro, Gears of War style :)
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:33 PM

XNA & XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh

Yesterday I finally installed XNA Game Studio under Vista... and today comes the 1.0 Refresh. Someone did it on purpose :D Anyway, here it is (at last), Windows Vista fully supported, 3D Audio and sharing of binaries (currently just between developers...
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Monday, April 16, 2007 9:50 PM

Playstation Home and thoughts

Some weeks after the official announcement of the Playstation Home "virtual world", now I've seen (at last) the official video/trailer: I think that it is a fantastic idea to improve the social relations of gamers, who sometimes are a bit anti-social...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:34 AM

GDC2007: Fantastic XNA news!

Today's been the "XNA day" at the GDC 2007 , and as expected there are a lot of fantastic news: Next revision of XNA will feature things like Windows Vista Support (at last!), XACT 3D (3D audio!), bitmap fonts, volume textures, icons for the games and...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 9:26 AM

XNA Creators Club Online

The online community site for XNA Creators Club is finally online ! Apart from the content that will be available for the premium club members, the website contains this for everyone who registers: Tutorials and video tutorials Some samples, like skinning...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 5:53 AM

Videogame Charts

People (including myself) usually just post about things they read about with a small description and a hyperlink to the mentioned website. Taking advantage of the ease of communication that the www brings, I've started to make some use of it to post...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:25 AM

MSN Spaces hacks: Custom HTML component

While playing with my XBox 360 gamercard , I found a cool hack for MSN Spaces: Login into your Space to get into Edit Mode Add " &powertoy=sandbox " to the end of the url, and click Go/press enter to surf to the new url Click on the Customize tab...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:21 AM

XBox 360 and Firewall troubleshooting

Few weeks ago, Miguel and I were preparing to kick some ass at Gears of War together, when we discovered we couldn't chat or play along... Something was clearly wrong. I've played through XBox Live but sometimes I couldn't connect or was thrown off by...
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Monday, February 26, 2007 7:50 AM

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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Friday, January 05, 2007 10:01 PM

What do these two pictures mean?

Yeah, with a small (and of course free) Live Marketplace Update, I can play my iPod music from my Xbox 360! I might like or dislike other Microsoft products, but each day I like more and more the new XBox... It's awesome :) The music keeps playing...
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Monday, October 09, 2006 10:30 PM

Spanish videogames market is strange...

There are things I can't understand of the spanish videogame market. One of them is the "European fool conversion" which means that if a console costs xxx dolars, in Europe we will pay the same xxx but changing dolars to euros. Hopefuly...
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:27 PM

Bought an XBox 360

Although I don't have too much spare time, I've finally decided to buy an XBox 360, mostly after I found there's an official VGA cable (so I could plug it directly to my TFT monitor and enjoy it at 1280x1024) and that the game Dead Rising...
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