Archive for March, 2009

Deal of the Week – Alien Hominid HD (XBLA)

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 31st, 2009 in Deal of the Week, Xbox 360

This week is a pretty awesome week for Xbox Live Arcade, not only is Dishwasher Dead Samurai coming out (see future post), but the Deal of the Week is currently running for an arcade game, and the savings have been increased to 50% off.
This week Alien Hominid HD is available on Xbox Live Arcade [...]

Dream Build Play 2009

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 30th, 2009 in Competitions, XNA

It’s on again, the annual XNA game creation competition, Dream Build Play was announced for 2009 at GDC in San Francisco.
DBP is a competition where individuals or teams compete against each other to create the best game they possibly can for the Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio. This year the competition will open [...]

Early MIX Beta/Link Roundup

2 Comments Posted by Michael March 19th, 2009 in MIX, Microsoft, Software

Silverlight 3
Silverlight 3 Beta Runtime (Mac)
Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1
Silverlight 3 SDK
Related documentation
 
Other Dev Tools/Runtimes
.NET RIA Services March ‘09 Preview
Azure Tools for VS2008 – March 2009 CTP
 
Expression Suite
Expression Blend 3 Preview (Not up yet) (See comments for direct link)
Expression Web 3 SuperPreview (See previous post)
 
More links will be added as I find them.

Expression Web 3 – Not your everyday WYSIWYG Web Editor

1 Comment Posted by Michael March 18th, 2009 in MIX, Microsoft, Software

(via Long Zheng)
Microsoft today broke their own NDA on a subset of the features in the upcoming Expression Web 3, which is a part of the Expression set of tools (and as a result will be in Dreamspark when it is released).
One of the big features that will come with Expression Web 3 (EW3 [...]

Free Stuff from MS [2009 Edition]

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 17th, 2009 in Microsoft, Software

Recently Paul Jenkins (@aeoth), a fellow MSP at Deakin University, wrote a series of blog posts about how to get free software and services from Microsoft as a Student.
Some of you may remember that last year we ran an event on how to get Free Stuff from Microsoft, this will expand on that, and also [...]

Deal of the Week – Fable (Xbox Original)

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 17th, 2009 in Deal of the Week, Xbox 360

This week Major Nelson brings us news of the next entry in the Deal of the Week program.
For those who do not know, this is a program that runs the same as the Holiday Deal of the Week program that ran in December 2008. The idea is that each week a piece of DLC [...]

Deal of the Week – Ninja Gaiden 2

0 Comments Posted by Michael March 3rd, 2009 in Deal of the Week, Xbox 360

(Via Major Nelson)
As mentioned last week, Microsoft is running a Deal of the Week program where a piece of DLC will be on sale for a week. This week the deal is for Ninja Gaiden 2, specifically the “Mission Mode” DLC.
“Introducing Mission Mode, a brand-new gameplay expansion for the acclaimed action game Ninja Gaiden II. [...]