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Microsoft Announces XNA Game Development Platform
Thanks to GameSpot for its story revealing that Microsoft is unveiling its XNA game software development platform later this morning at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose. XNA is "designed for use with future iterations of all Microsoft game platforms, including Windows, Xbox, and Windows Mobile-based devices" to make simultaneous platform development easier and cheaper, and the company is also expected to announce "Xbox Live-style functionality for billing, security, and matchmaking being made available to Windows developers... [and] the introduction of controllers that are compatible with all Windows and Xbox game players" as part of this move. IGN Xbox has an interview with Microsoft's Jay Allard and Dean Lester which explains XNA as being a cross-platform, evolving toolset that will ensure backwards compatibility, giving the example: "...[if] Adobe was writing an application for Win95, and then WinNT came out there were special features they could take advantages of -- they didn't have to throw it all away and start again." Update: 03/25 00:46 GMT by S : Microsoft has made the official XNA site public, including streaming video from unspecified next-generation games.
Anyone remembers DirectX? Oh wait...
I was eagerly awaiting the day Microsoft would become frustrated on their losses with the Xbox, and just try to gobble up the entire industry from the inside instead! Yes!
Let me guess: Microsoft, Microsoft and... hmmm more Microsoft?
Stéphane "Alias" Gallay
Now, where did I put this witty quote?..
Well, that particular team wanted to put in 'more advanced features' in the game; better A.I., 3D graphics, surround sound, you name it. Unfortunately, when upper management saw what that team had created thusfar, they simply dismantled the development team and took what they had and put that into Windows. Nowadays that game is known as minesweeper.
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
Except I am guessing this would be next round of antitrust lawsuits against microsoft in the next 3-4 years.
billing, security, and matchmaking being made available to Windows developers...
Money, secure computing, and chicks - man, I want to be a windows developer! MS sure does take good care of their employees.
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
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I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Serious yet funny 28 year old male Microsoft DirectX developer looking for cute and timid Microsoft Windows software engineer, between the ages of 25 and 30 with shoulder-length dark hair and pale blue eyes. Looking for a serious and caring yet professional relationship to share experiences and get yelled at by Balmer together. Must be willing to enjoy coding, Pepsi Blue, anchovis pizza, good thrillers and a little bit of DirectXXX, preferably in combination with any of the former. Serious inquiries only. Respond to article nr. 123456
Hate me!
So id can compile Doom 3 for a P4/DX9/512MBDDR target, press a button, and it'll compile for a Nokia phone! I bet that'll work GREAT.
Sounds like the old CHIP8 games.
http://members.aol.com/autismuk/chip8/
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
MATCHMAKING?!?!
For the love of all that's holy, who entrusts their love life to the same firm that brought us Clippy and Bob?!?!
If you guessed XNA you would be wrong.
What you actualy get is cancer.
With the moo and the cow and the fish. Minesweeper Record: 7 sec
Why oh why does every new product have to have the letter X in it? I find myself longing for the days of iEverything or eEverything.
Except for XML and Mac OS X, the X doesn't make any sense to me in any of the 48,000 "cool" products starting with X. Other letters are cool, too! How about M, B, or W?
C'mon! Innovate a little!
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
We've got both platforms, 95 and XP!
Any real developer who hasn't drunk the Micro$oft kool-aid knows damn well that DirectXXX is just a thinly-disguised ripoff of fu-fme with a thin wrapper of vendor lock-in!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"Being able to write a game once, and with little modification have it running on both a PC and a console, is a Good Thing for developers and users. " My god, martha stewart has found slashdot. and she's an MS fan.
Next thing you know, we'll have emacs users getting modded up. It's chaos I tell you! Anarchy!
WWJD? JWRTFA!
Blackmail's such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool.
The way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher value them who think alike than those who think differently
No other letter can compete with X, certainly not a VOWEL. Innovate all you want, but let me X-PLAIN...
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Sex - it's almost all X, except for the curvey S parts, and that voyeurist silent e. uh huh, huh huh
eXciting, eXploding, eXterminating - Like ninja's who have real ultimate power.
Letter X - Once you get to this letter there you can relax because your almost done with the alphabet. It's a letter that even looks like a throwing star! If you dis the letter X again ninja's will apear and chop your damn head off!
XXX - Porn or alchohol? It's up to you!
xXx - A little different, but he's like this buff snow board, uzi totin, snow boarding bald dude that really cares deep down about cars and his country and blowing shit up, but not bosses so he's cool.
Triple-X - another different big sweaty guy who pretends to kick peoples asses for a living, but doesn't blow shit up. This one's not bald, but I bet people in the front row wish he was when his long hair flips sweat on them.
XXX - super rare genetic condition where someone is all girl and then some, probably like the powder puff girls.
Chemical X - yeah that's it Powder puff girls. Bubbles, Blossum, and Buttercup. Find the Marilyn Mason Remix.
X - Sign here please, or even I'm to damn lazy to sign my own name. The all-time official winner of Tic-Tac-Toe.
Malcom X - like asterisk it's a wildcard - it can mean anything you want it to mean, or that it doesn't matter. Or that your cool and pissed off.
eXtreme [sports|games|etc|X] - extreme anything. Exterme sports, extreme sailing, extreme grocery shopping. Do something wild and crazy to get a thrill. Now even wearing helmets is cool!
Base X - roman numeral for our standard number system. Uh... The simpsons had Bart almost get eaten by a lion because of this roman numeral thing.
XXX - Roman numerals for when people become OLD. Until next year when it will be changed to XXXX
Programming - For loops always use X. It's a law or something.
Math - the whole horizontal part of the 2D co-ordiate system. Without X all graphs would be straight up and down lines. Y is nothing without X.
Generation X - Lazy good for nothing little bastards who can suddenly vote, buy cars and even video game systems. I think I may even be one of them.
XeroX - the coolest company in the freakin WORLD! I mean they START and END with X!!
eX-laX - Helps you out when you don't want to be full of shit anymore
XML - Extensable Markup Language. Could have been EML but then no one would have used it because that's just not COOL.
XBOX is the most incredible piece of hardware because they have 2 X's which implies they some how cram all that X goodness in that big ugly box.
So to summarize...
X is cool, X rocks, X MARKS THE FUCKIN SPOT!
(:D bring on the ex-lax responses)