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Posted By: Tina Wood | Jun 9th @ 4:12 PM
Some of you may have recently gotten your hands on Sega's new "The Incredible Hulk" game.  And may be asking who are the voices behind the green giant and his fair lady?  Never fear, the behind-the-scenes making of video is here.  

This celebrity-filled video is focused on the stars behind the characters in the game, all being voiced by the actors who played them in the upcoming movie - including Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, and William Hurt. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the recording sessions as well as interviews with key members of the cast, this video goes into the studio to see first-hand the elements that brings this multi-platform game to life.
Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 8th @ 8:12 PM
Our home town of Seattle was fortunate enough to host a friendly soccer (futbol) game between Brasil's national team and Canada's national team. With David Beckham inspiring a new passion for Soccer in America, this was huge. Not only that, but apparently Microsoft has a HUGE Brasilian community. I decided to invade it....watch.
Posted By: Tina Wood | May 27th @ 2:47 PM

Softkinetic is the leading provider of natural interfaces that transform the way people interact with the digital world.

They enable fully immersive, transparent and intuitive user experiences by providing a 3D real-time gesture recognition middleware to Interactive Digital Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Industrial Applications and Fitness Equipment manufacturers.

Softkinetic operates with a single depth sensing camera, requires no marker (no gamepad, no wiimote, no special gloves or clothing, no headset - nothing), and works under all lighting conditions and scene settings (at home, in a fitness center, an amusement park, a classroom, a game cafe, an industrial simulation room - anywhere.)

Posted By: Tina Wood | May 5th @ 9:59 PM

Gapless playback

Zune users will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and the Zune software. Now play the album and the feature is automatically turned on. This is especially important for the continuity of live or electronic music albums.

Improved Sync

Sync multiple Zune players at once – convenient for households with multiple Zune owners. Drag and drop to queue up content ready for syncing with an unconnected Zune. Once that Zune is connected or comes into range of a trusted Wi-Fi network, the content will automatically update to your Zune.

When your Zune is close to full, you’ll be able to manage the content to sync or remove with an easy to understand display, which highlights items taking up the most memory.

Organize Your Collection

In addition to sorting your music collection by artist or album, you cannow sort by genre. While browsing by genre, you can further sort your music by artist, album, or release year.

Editing Album and Trac k Information

Want to change the artist name on a song? Drag and drop the song to the artist. Want to change the genre of an album? Drag and drop the album into the new genre – the Zune software will update to reflect your changes.

The advanced metadata editing features make it easy to edit multiple tracks or survey album and artist information. Display info about any album in your collection; right click and select ‘find album info’ and quickly find the song names, the release year, the genre and more. You can quickly and universally apply these changes.If you have an image saved to your clipbook, you can paste that image toreplace the album art on any album in your music collection. You can click multiple albums and edit them all at the same time – just select them and the software will guide you through it. By right-clicking on any given song, you can quickly edit the artist, album, song title, genre and more.

Sync Groups

Sync groups allow you to have the benefits of automatic sync, for specific sets of content. When you drag and drop an album, artist, a Zune Card, or playlist from your Zune software to your Zune, a sync group is created. Your Zune can always have the latest versions of the media you love, because now you can create sync groups to control the content that syncs with your Zune. These are based upon rules that you specify (much like auto playlists) so that when you connect your Zune, any content that matches one of these rules will be added or removed from your Zune automatically.

Sync groups allow you to have the benefits of automatic sync, for specific sets of content. When you drag and drop an album, artist, a Zune Card, or playlist from your Zune software to your Zune, a sync group is created. Your Zune can always have the latest versions of the media you love, because now you can create sync groups to control the content that syncs with your Zune. These are based upon rules that you specify (much like auto playlists) so that when you connect your Zune, any content that matches one of these rules will be added or removed from your Zune automatically.

Gapless playback

Zune users will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and the Zune software. Now play the album and the feature is automatically turned on. This is especially important for the continuity of live or electronic music albums.

Zune users will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and the Zune software. Now play the album and the feature is automatically turned on. This is especially important for the continuity of live or electronic music albums.

Improved Sync

Sync multiple Zune players at once – convenient for households with multiple Zune owners.Drag and drop to queue up content ready for syncing with an unconnected Zune. Once that Zune is connected or comes into range of a trusted Wi-Fi network, the content will automatically update to your Zune. When your Zune is close to full, you’ll be able to manage the content to sync or remove with an easy to understand display, which highlights items taking up the most memory.

Sync multiple Zune players at once – convenient for households with multiple Zune owners.Drag and drop to queue up content ready for syncing with an unconnected Zune. Once that Zune is connected or comes into range of a trusted Wi-Fi network, the content will automatically update to your Zune. When your Zune is close to full, you’ll be able to manage the content to sync or remove with an easy to understand display, which highlights items taking up the most memory.

Organize Your Collection

In addition to sorting your music collection by artist or album, you can now sort by genre. While browsing by genre, you can further sort your music by artist, album, or release year.

In addition to sorting your music collection by artist or album, you can now sort by genre. While browsing by genre, you can further sort your music by artist, album, or release year.
Posted By: Tina Wood | May 2nd @ 11:02 AM
The Popfly Game Creator offers a fun and easy way to create and share personalized games.  Creating a game with Popfly is as simple as selecting actors, specifying a scene, and then defining behaviors that bring the game to life.  With just a few clicks and some creativity  you can author your first game- all without writing any code!

But wait!  What was life like before Popfly Game Creator?  We have all heard horror stories about what these legendary game characters were like to work with....but is it true?  Was creating games before Popfly really as hard as people say.  See for yourself. 

Links to individual popfly pieces:
Frogger
Pong
Punchout Auditions
Mario
Tetris
Gangsta
Halo

Check out some more popfly videos over at popfly. 

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