Items Tagged "xblig"

Microsoft Silent as Xbox Indies Marketplace Exploited

There have always been rumors that the game ratings on the Xbox 360 and Xbox.com website we’re being manipulated by game developers. On March 23, ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, April 11, 2011
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Anime (and Indie Game) Fans Give Back to Japan

On the afternoon of March 11 Japan was hit by a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake which triggered a massive tsunami hitting just minutes after. Over ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, March 17, 2011
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Is XNA good for Indie Games?

This post is cross posted from GameMarx.com This morning I read a blog post from an Indie game developer on The Perils of XNA and the Death of an Indie. ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, March 09, 2011
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Are gamers still rating Indie Games after the Xbox Dashboard update?

This post is cross posted from GameMarx.com Background: In August of 2009 Microsoft updated the Xbox Dashboard to allow user ratings on games. ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, February 06, 2011
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Creating the Parallax and Scrolling Background

This article is cross-posted from DracoWing.com. Draco Wing is a new XNA based game for the Xbox 360 I am working on, and I will be keeping a “diary” ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, November 26, 2010
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Xbox Indies: Come Play With Us

When I last posted on Xbox Live Indie Games, things looked pretty dire. In the weeks since, the #SaveXBLIG rally has been a success – we got Microsoft’s ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, November 19, 2010
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Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games

The title may be overly dramatic, but make no mistake, Microsoft is quietly holding a pillow over Xbox Live Indie Games, hoping to smother the service ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, November 04, 2010
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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

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