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Looks like the new Sales stats are in for Xbox LIVE.

Looks like MajorNelson has released the newest games sales statistics for Xbox LIVE (August 31, 2009). Congratulations to everyone especially James SIlva for keeping the top sales spot for Xbox LIVE Indie Games. Here is the link to the MajorNelson post. XBLIG developers keep up the hardwork!...

DreamBuildPlay 2009 - Winners Announced

Seems that the XNA Team has announced this years winners of the Dream Build Play Competition. ( Click here to go the official post ) First I would like to congratulate all the winners this year. It is good to see some awesome looking games make the cut. First Place! ($40,000 USD + potential XBLA Contact...

Knowledge Defense Force @ World Skills 2009

I headed down to the World Skills Competition today to have a look around and get a couple pictures of the KDF game up on the big screen. Here are the few pictures I could take before almost melting to death from all the heat (I am going back tomorrow and will be dressed a touch lighter). Of course here...

SAIT/World Skills CD Rom Edition gone GOLD!

As the topicx describes the SAIT/World Skills CD Rom Edition game has gone into replication. \o/ Having an initial replication request of 30,000 copies makes this one of the biggest potential distributions of a game I developed to-date. I would like to thank SAIT Polytechnic and the World Skills Group...

Connection troubles - Server moved.

Sorry for the inconvienience it seems over the last four or five days the XNAinspired website has been down and unresponsive. I believe I have the issue fixed but only time will tell. Cheers No Comments

"XBLCG Best Practices with Andy Dunn"

Tonight the XNA Calgary Users Group was treated with a great first year birthday surprise. Thanks to the hard work of the Ineta group having Andy present to the group was a great present and culminated the year of operation just perfectly. Thank you! Tonight Andy presented the group with the topic of...

"An Intro to XNA with Andy Dunn"

Andy was in Calgary doing a presentation to the Calgary .NET User Group , "An Introduction to XNA Game Studio and Xbox live community games" on June 23rd 2009. This was the first Calgary .NET Users Group I had attended and will most likely attend other discussions and presentations presented...

Bumps - Update II

With great support from some of you Bumps is going well in the 2BeeGames competition however there is one last round of voting left to go. If I could get those of you that have been playing and helping to spread the word of Bumps to vote one last time it would be awesome. Just head over to 2BeeGames...

\o/ XNA Game Studio 3.1 has shipped.

I am a little late in the news but it has finally happened. Little off the May release date, oh well. I have not gotten into the new things going on with 3.1 yet but certainly will and get back to you all on what I find and some new tutorials demonstrating some of the new features. Here is the link to...

Bumps - Update!

For those of you that have not been following along, Bumps is a game developed by UK based developer Utopian Games . I have been given the porting job of Bumps from a PC to a XBLCG game. With that said, Bumps has been entered into a little contest at http://www.2beegames.com and needs our help. For anyone...