Life and work have stalled me recently, but my enthusiasm is back.  Spurred by playing bad games and most of all, by this announcement from Microsoft: Wow! It's hard to believe that a year ago on this blog we announced the first release of XNA Game Studio Express. Now, here we are again at Gamefest 2007 and, on behalf of the XNA ...

As you may or may not remember, Steve ''PlayNoEvil'' Davis and I have a small bet running at the princely sum of $1US (almost enough for a mug of coffee from the machine at work, in fact) concerning which console will sell the most by January 31st 2008.  Steve thinks Nintendo's Wii is a shoe-in.  I think the XBox 360 is far more likely ...

You have no idea how hard it is for me to write that.  No, really. There are many reasons why professional developers dislike Microsoft.  Longstanding reasons with good evidence.  But frankly, right now, i hope they end up owning the gaming market the way they own the office software market.  I'm serious. As a pro, i dislike ...