RSSMicrosoft Tempts Game Developers with Prizes
By the Betanews Staff | Published March 5, 2007, 11:14 AM
Microsoft kicked off its 'Dream-Build-Play' contest at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, offering $10,000 and the opportunity to have their game published in the Xbox Live Arcade to one lucky developer. While the grand prize is the money and distribution of the game, over $40,000 worth of prizes will be given out to 20 winners in total.
Microsoft, Alienware, AMD, Autodesk, and Softimage have all offered prizes for contest winners, the company said in a statement. To participate, the developer must use either Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express, or the third-party GarageGames Torque X platform. Submissions are due by July 2, and a winner will be announced August 13 at Microsoft Gamefest 2007.
The big problem I have here is that you have to pay $99 to play XNA games. That's crap. If you want 360 to explode, let someone download a live game from the web onto a USB module, and plug that into the 360, and play it. That alone would make the 360 the utterly premiere system.
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|I prefer the term Bribes. It works well when used in conjunction with the word Microsoft...
http://slashdot.org/arti.../06/12/27/1423234.shtml
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|Yeah, so... who cares? You could say your work is bribing you to work with money. So what's your point?
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|I read the title as "Microsoft Tempts Game Developers with Pizzas".
I think that'd probably work better. :p
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