Tag: microsoft

  • Like watching a trainwreck with a truck full of puppies plunging off a cliff

    Jon Blow’s recent blog post grabs excerpts Jeff Roberts and Casey Muratori (of Molly Rocket and the appropriately named Jeff and Casey Show) ripping into Microsoft on Visual Studio 2010 and the new Direct2D API. Both of these rants are worth a listen if for nothing else because Jeff and Casey are often times very,…

  • The amazing generic avatar

    Yesterday, Microsoft’s big Xbox 360 update, dubbed the New Xbox Experience (or informally the NXE) was released to the wide public after being hyped up for the better part of the second half of the year. It brings a host of improvements and new features that don’t need to be discussed here. One of the…

  • Unpacking the game

    As a kid I was incredibly anal about handling the packaging my games came in. Growing up before there were CD/DVD cases most games — in particular anything for a Nintendo system — were packaged in relatively flimsy cardboard boxes. I took great pains to carefully remove the tape sealing the box; making sure to…