Hot on the heels of me praising the Xbox Live Community Marketplace comes this opinion piece on Gamasutra that’s actually fairly angry at Microsoft’s practices in this regard. I definitely see his problems with the promotion thing, but almost everyone did. That was the single most asked question at GameFest, so I’m sure [...]

So, if you haven’t heard, Microsoft announced at GameFest that they’d be deploying a new community market place this fall on the Xbox 360, and that developers will be able to keep (up to) 70% of the revenue generated from games on the community marketplace. While not unexpected, this is pretty huge news.
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Hot on the heals of the web release of my Game Career Guide article on game engines, the paper / published version is now out, though the whole thing is available online for free. I’m almost always really happy with the print version of Game Career Guide. It has some great articles to [...]

I’m not one to disagree with Joel, but I actually think I will disagree (sort-of) with this post.
Personally, I have no problem with disabling menu items (graying them out), and I have no problem with showing / hiding items in context sensitive areas of your UI (be they right click menus or elsewhere). I [...]