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Casual game developers can look forward to earning some more bucks from Microsoft as the Big M has decided to share in-game advertising profits with the developers. This two-tier revenue program is rolled out for developers of MSN Games.
“Now, by sharing in-game advertising revenue, we’re allowing a more diversified business model that gives our partners more resources to create new, innovative titles for the 13 million people we see every month on MSN Games.”
Better money means better games.
Casual Money via DailyTech

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Current video games are getting more complex and flashier but are today’s game programmers up to the task of creating real FUN games? Doolwind shed some light on current game programming trend. Here are some points from his article:

Game programming is tough.
C++ is still a useful language.
Creativity is important!
Good game programmers are hard to come by.
If you are one of the elite programmers, please be humble.
Big Bucks are waiting for game programmers.
Game companies have to treasure talent.

No doubt that many youngsters are aspiring to be game programmers but the path to become a good programmer is definitely not easy.

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