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22 July 2008
Boston XNA July 23rd Meeting on 2D Role Playing Game Development
  The Boston XNA Developers Group is an open user group for anyone interested in learning about game development with the .NET-based XNA framework.  Attendance is open and everyone is welcome, including students and parents with their programming-interested Read More...
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25 June 2008
June Boston XNA Meeting Canceled
Unfortunately, tonight's (6/23) meeting for the Boston XNA Developers Group will have to be canceled.  A last-minute scheduling problem has come up, so we're going to punt on this month's meeting. We'll continue as usual with the July meeting. If Read More...
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23 June 2008
Northeast XNA Game Developer Featured on CNN
[Thanks to Lindsay for the heads-up!] Currently featured as the lead Tech story is an article featuring the Northeast's own James Silva and the story of his creation of a game called "Dishwasher: Dead Samurai" using XNA (coming later this year Read More...
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08 May 2008
XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP Released
Been waiting to try your hand at creating XNA games for the Zune? Want to use Visual Studio 2008 (express, standard, or higher) as well? Check out the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) ! The XNA Team Blog has the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-community-technical-preview-ctp.aspx Read More...
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05 May 2008
Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator
Many people have been using Silverlight to create games for the web, but until now, you've had to be a programmer to do it. Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share Read More...
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09 April 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Update
The Boston XNA Developers Group is dedicated to learning and using XNA to create games for Windows and Xbox 360 (and later on, the Zune!) No game development experience is required! Next Meeting Our next meeting will be on April 24th, 6-8 PM at the Microsoft Read More...
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13 March 2008
Learn XNA at the Next Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting
On March 26th at the next Boston XNA Developers Group meeting, we're starting the process of learning XNA . (The first meeting was a non-technical overview of the world of XNA.) Join Michael Cummings and me as we walk through creating a basic 2D game Read More...
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25 February 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting Wednesday 2/27
A reminder that the first meeting of the shiny new Boston XNA Developers Group ( http://bostonxna.org ) will be this Wednesday, February 27th, from 6-8 PM at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Road (6th Floor) in Waltham, MA. The group is open to everyone Read More...
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21 February 2008
Huge XNA News at GDC '08
The XNA team made two very big announcements at the Game Developers' Conference . Cutting right to the chase, the biggest news is that the wait will be over for community XNA games on Xbox LIVE! Coming this holiday season, people will be able to share, Read More...
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07 February 2008
Announcing the Boston XNA Developers Group
Like games? Interested in creating your own using C#? I'm excited to announce that we have a new user group in the Boston area, focused on game development with the XNA Framework ! Join the Boston XNA Developers Group 's inaugural meeting on February Read More...
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20 December 2007
World of Warcraft Meets Visual Studio 2008
In an bit of good timing for some holiday season downtime, Dan Fernandez has announced the first release of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on CodePlex. World of Wacraft supports user-generated utilities and interfaces, called AddOns. Now we can use Read More...
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29 November 2007
GameDev Day '07 Agenda and Additions
GameDev Day '07 is this Saturday at Harvard and I'm very pleased with how well the agenda has come together. We have an incredibly strong group of presenters from the gaming industry with interesting sessions throughout the day. First, a change in logistics. Read More...
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18 November 2007
GameDev Day '07 Boston - XNA, Gaming, and Game Development
Like games? Wonder how they're made? Want to know how to make them yourself? Come to GameDev Day '07 , a free event being hosted at Harvard University on December 1st, sponsored by Microsoft in association with the Harvard Interactive Media Group ( HIMG Read More...
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29 June 2007
Index of Silverlight Games (Most with Source)
In my experience, many corporate developers by day are actually gamers by night (after putting the kids in bed, of course.) So when an interesting technology like Silverlight comes along, a good way to learn what it can do is to see gaming concepts applied, Read More...
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10 April 2007
XBox 360 News
Plenty of news has been coming out recently about the XBox 360. Here's a brief summary: The XBox 360 Elite has been officially announced : "Xbox 360 Elite is the newest addition to the Xbox family that includes a huge 120GB hard drive (the largest available Read More...
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