Let it be known that Microsoft is no longer actively developing XNA game development framework. Games like A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda and Rocket Riot were in fact made using XNA in the past. Support for XNA on the Windows Phone 7 OS was the last major announcement for the engine, that later was removed in Windows Phone 8. XNA/DirectX MVPs were sent the email ...
HeartBit Interactive, creators of the greatly successful Doom & Destiny RPG has finally come clean with the details surrounding the fantastic game. They recently sat down for an exclusive interview that gives us all insight on the porting process, future updates and future ambitions with the Windows Phone OS. MBGW: Hey guys! Fancy meeting you here again ...
Talks of Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) getting a Windows 8 kernel is a rumor that more and more is beginning to look like its true. Eldar Murtazin however has taken it one step further and has began the rumor that current Windows Phone apps would be incompatible with the next version of Windows Phone (Windows ...
There is already a tremendous amount of information that is available online on how to create Windows Phone 7 applications. Before WP7 even was out we heard the screams coming out of Redmond – developers, developers, developers!!! So if you want to create WP7 apps there is no shortage of the amount of tutorials and ...
With Microsoft hosting MIX11 soon, they have been teasing that a few important announcements will be made regarding Windows Phone 7. Well now there is a mysterious list going around that supposedly is every bullet point that Microsoft will make regarding WP7. The list is as follows… Interoperability: devs can now use both Silverlight and ...
One developer request I heard over and over again from the community was that they wanted XNA on Visual Basic. It is finally going to happen after soon. ‘Tonight at DevConnections, Senior Director Dave Mendlen announced that XNA support will be coming to Visual Basic. This is part of Microsoft’s co-evolution strategy, whereby we are ...
Microsoft has just released their newly updated Windows Phone training kit. It comes with a few new labs and a bug fix. The 2 new labs are ‘Accessing Windows Phone Devices’ and Multi-touch Game Development XNA Framework”. Accessing Windows Phone 7 Devices is a lab that lets you work with the phone’s camera and location ...
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