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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:11:00 GMT

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XNA - Building XNA 2.0 Games: A Practical Guide for Independent Game D

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:44:50 GMT

James Silva, author of the infamous XNA Game: Dishwasher: Dead Samurai has partnered with John Sedlak to create a cutting edge book focusing on the creation of the Dishwasher game. In this book James talks about how you too could create your own 2D side-scroller hack em up with emphasis on game design, game play elements, audio, special effects and networking.

Real-Time Collision Detection review

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:34:34 GMT

Maciej has posted a review of Real-Time Collision Detection. While reading it, he believes that this is a book that every game programmer should read. The title does say it focuses on collision detection, but that subject is so broad that it touches multiple other vital areas like linear algebra, spatial partitioning, ray tracing, bounding volumes and more.

The Cg Tutorial - Now Readable Online

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:04:02 GMT

10 chapters of the Cg Tutorial are now available online for free. The Cg Tutorial teaches you more than just the Cg Shading Language. It serves as a lucid introduction to all the basic concepts of the modern graphics pipeline - from vertices and polygons, and the building blocks of shader programming, to more advanced topics like bump mapping and toon shading.

XNA 2.0 book sample chapters online

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:22:22 GMT

Rob Miles has released a couple chapters of his book: Learn Programming Now XNA Game Studio 2.0. The table of contents and chapters one and two are available for viewing online. Rob's book is scheduled to be released on February 13'th 2008.

XNA 2.0 Book Now Available For Pre-order

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:49:43 GMT

Machaira (Jim Perry) is finishing up his book: Essential XNA Game Programming. This book focuses on XNA 2.0 and covers a wide variety of techniques and implementations to empower your inner code monkey :)