Last Saturday, I told you about my first experience with Kinect, Microsoft’s supposedly ber console add-on. Like I said then, Dance Central on the Kinect was a blast, but there is no way this peripheral can live up to the hype it has been building, especially with the problems I have with two of its other games, Joyride and Kinect Adventures.
1980. A yellow dot with a wide mouth moves across a black screen, weaving through a colored maze of ghosts while chomping even smaller white dots. PAC-Man grew to become a cultural icon, a game that would change the face of gaming, spawning new versions for nearly every platform released during last 30 years. Now,…continue reading.
During MIX10 Microsoft announced the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE). This open source tool provides real time editing for Silverlight Smooth Streaming content. Without any re-encoding the RCE allows editing of Smooth Streaming sources, both on-demand and Live. Content publishers can use this tool to create real-time highlights, control dynamic meta-data, such as inserting ads…continue reading.
The stereotype of most programmers is a guy sitting in a dark room with nothing but the glow of a monitor screen keeping him company. However, that is certainly not the case with the participants of Super Happy Dev House (SHDH). Last weekend I attended the 36th Super Happy Dev House held at Microsoft Mountain…continue reading.
Despite holding a press conference that was more “look what we’ve done lately” than “look what we’re going to do,” Microsoft has made some cool announcements at CES regarding video games. We caught up with a Microsoft rep who took us through the Xbox Game Room which will be released this spring with more than…continue reading.
Yesterday I was hanging out at the Zune house in LA for a live ZuneChat with the All American Rejects. That was pretty cool and all but the awesome thing was during the event the new Twitter app for the ZuneHD was released and we got Matt Singley (@mattsingley) to give us a walk through…continue reading.
Guest post by Jim Alden @TechFrog Although the Internet was invented years before on the campus of UCLA, It wasn’t until Christmas day 1990 that Tim Berners-Lee, completed the first browser for the world wide web (on a NeXT computer). As the 90’s went on, the web was growing, Mosaic, Opera, Mozilla (and others) continued…continue reading.
Everyone today is talking about cloud computing and putting everything in the cloud. However, have you ever wondered what the cloud actually looks like? Have you been able to touch? Well we have thanks to the Microsoft PDC09 event, and now you get to as well (well see what it looks like, not actually touch…continue reading.
