Home Is Where The Heart Is

I've been back home for a few days now and I love it. It's a little weird hearing English all the time and generally not being in South America, but Sydney is absolutely beautiful at the moment and it's impossible not to fall, or re-fall, in love with it.

I consoled (boom-tsk) myself with being back here by buying an Xbox 360 within 3 hours of touching down. Gears of War is simply amazing; the hype around this game is spot on. I also grabbed Viva Pinata (sorry about the spelling, no "enya" on this keyboard), which is also awesome. There are a couple of things that I think are a little sloppy and load times are too long for a 2nd gen "next gen" game, but those little pinatas are just so cute!

Not too much else to report at the moment. I've started catching up with people and working on Elevation again, so I'm keeping busy.

I finally had a look at the latest beta of XNA and the Content Pipeline in particular is great. Being able to add a 3D model, texture or sound file to your Visual Studio project, reference and load it directly is just amazing. Hats off to the XNA team for some truly great work has concrete benefits to game developers. I'm going to do my next game project in XNA for Xbox 360, so I'm very interested in and excited by it.