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  • Win, Place or Show: Does it Really Matter?

    Fall is finally here and most of the news is out about what we can expect from the video game systems. The launch of new consoles always generates a great deal of excitement and buzz for the industry. Unfortunately this is often followed by a sense of disappointment with the realization that the world has not suddenly been turned on its axis. The console hardware battle is a marathon, not a sprint, and will be played out over the next three years. It is unlikely that this holiday season will reveal any major surprises that would cause us to make a major market reassessment.

  • Creating 2D Action Games with the Game API

    GameCanvas is a Canvas with additional capabilities; it provides methods for immediate painting and for examining the state of the device keys. These new methods make it possible to enclose all of a game's functionality in a single loop, under control of a single thread. To see why this is attractive, think about how you would implement a typical game using Canvas:

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