Hey kids!
Wakey wakey! It’s ime to shine, and yank open those curtains to your penthouse…. wait! did I say penthouse?!
That’s right kids, a new competition hosted by Microsoft is giving you and 5 mates a chance to win a penthouse of your choice (whichever city) FREE for 7 MONTHS! (Rent up to $1500 per week) [...]

Just a reminder to everyone who registered for the XNA Game Camp in Wollongong this Friday.
Registration is open from 10:30 to 11am, but trains take ~2hrs to get there, so be sure you know what train you need.
Let me know if you are going to the camp!
 
-Michael

Hey everyone! 
It’s been a while since I made my last post, so it’s about time I got back up to date with UTSMSP.
Microsoft is holding career presentations to broadcast their Internship and Full Time positions in Microsoft for students in Business (for marketing, sales and services), and Engineering/IT (software). 
These presentations will be held in UNSW (as if not [...]

To coincide with the opening of the Windows Mobile Application Marketplace, Microsoft AU is running a competition for students that includes some pretty nice prizes.
The idea is simple, think up an idea for a Windows Mobile app, make a prototype, and submit it!
You could win one of two developer mentorships, and a share in over [...]

The ODSTs will be dropping into Cockatoo Island, Sydney next Thursday (6/8/09) and they will be bringing the famous WETA Warthog, as well as a bungie staffer along with them to show off the game to a select group of people.
Microsoft Australia is offering students an extra chance to attend, by providing two VIP tickets [...]

Microsoft’s annual student competition that seeks to solve the worlds problems is on again, and this time finalists will be heading to Poland to compete.
The theme this year is the same as last year, the UN Millennium goals. So you can either continue the project that you started last year, or choose from one of [...]

This Friday (19th June) Microsoft is running a competition where anyone in Australia could win $10,000! The premise is that the first person to find the treasure on a specific webpage (using the provided clues) will win the $10,000, however you will only find it using the new Internet Explorer 8.
To get started, head [...]

We’ve seen the US laptop hunter ads, and now the Windows team have brought them to Australia, and made them even better. If you listen to Nova 969 (or for our Melbourne readers, Nova 100) in the mornings from 8:30am, you will get clues to find the “Laptop Hunter” in the city. (more clues on [...]

As I announced recently, the annual Dream Build Play XNA game development competition is running again this year, with up to $75,000 in cash prizes to grab. As of writing the competition has been open to registrations for a little over a week, so I hope everyone has gone and registered, and started developing [...]

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 [...]