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The contest will culminate in the extraordinary grand prize that includes an opportunity for the winner to receive an Xbox LIVE Arcade publishing contract, providing a chance to showcase the winner’s game on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Dream-Build-Play is open to any user of XNA Game Studio Express, including the GarageGames Torque X platform. No purchase is necessary to compete. The contest ends July 2, 2007, and winners will be announced Aug. 13 at Microsoft Gamefest 2007 in Seattle. Additional contest details, including detailed eligibility and entry requirements, are available at http://www.dreambuildplay.com.
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Published by Microsoft Game Studios and developed by Bungie Studios, Halo 3 is the third installment of the legendary story. The war has come to a climax; the Flood continues to grow in numbers and strength, the armies of Earth are scattered and decimated, and the Covenant threatens to activate the Halo. Master Chief's mission is to stop the Covenant, destroy the impending Flood threat and, ultimately save mankind.
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Since 1984, Kemco has produced over 100 titles, including the popular Top Gear racing games and the Crazy Castle series for a wide variety of video game platforms. An original Nintendo licensee, Kemco works closely with DC Comics, Warner Bros. and Universal Studios on ongoing video game projects. Currently, Kemco's development teams are creating games for Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance as well as Sony PlayStation®2 and Microsoft's Xbox™.
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September 1 in Denver, CO is the kick off to the highly-anticipated 5th annual EA SPORTS™ Madden Challenge, played exclusively this year on the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, with a $100,000 grand prize check for the Finals winner. Void where prohibited. Eligibility Restrictions Apply. Tournament runs on published dates in each city. For additional details and Tournament Official Rules see www.maddenchallenge.com.
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With 'MechAssault' launching this holiday season, players will find a brilliantly designed single-player game and the rush of nonstop action," said Ed Fries, vice president of Xbox Game Content at Microsoft. "'MechAssault' ... launches as one of the premier titles on Xbox Live. Gamers can enjoy an onslaught of high-intensity multiplayer action, with enough downloadable content to keep the destruction fresh for a long time to come."
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Carmack continued, "The best thing Microsoft could do for the game community would be to release the Win95 OpenGL MCD framework to allow hardware vendors to easily build robust, full featured drivers. Without Microsoft's help, there will be several partial implementations to satisfy specific requirements, resulting in version problems and incompatibilities. The strengths of OpenGL are important enough that it is going to be used one way or another, but life would be so much better if Microsoft cooperated."
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