Game Development Resources Library

We're a bit light on the content this week but with the 4th of July around the corner, I've had to cut short the usual length of time this feature covers. Seeing as that tomorrow is a holiday for us in the US of A, here's your weekend wrap-up a day early. Enjoy the three-day weekend fellow Americans!

The June CTP 2008 version of Karvonite has been released. Karvonite is a FREE persistence framework for the .NET Platform including XNA and the compact framework that let you easily serialize/deserialize objects.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/karvonite

This is the week of the United States' Independence Day so, in light of that, I'm presenting entertaining stories (even though the fourth isn't until Friday).

SWEngine is a powerful and free 2D Game Engine. It has simple and flexible API to easily develop 2D games. It uses OpenGL, Glew, GLSL, FMod, Box2D and DirectInput in it's framework.
It also has a good API doc and lots of tutorials (nearly 40). You can access SWEngine and other SWWorkshop products at http://www.skywar.org

Obsidian Entertainment was born in 2003 out of the ashes of legendary RPG developer Black Isle Entertainment, of Fallout and Planescape: Torment fame.

Following rumors that the studio was to be shuttered, publisher Take-Two has announced that while no decisions have yet been made, it is indeed considering "possible redundancies" at its UK Prizefighter and Rocky developer Venom Games.

Microsoft has announced that July 7th will see the release of a new Halo 3 multiplayer map, as well as a number of other gamer pics and themes and a drop in price for the last DLC set, in honor of the so-called 'Bungie Day.' The new multiplayer map, called Cold Storage, is similar to the Chi

According to a new report, Sony is to introduce a new, slimmer PlayStation 2 hardware model to India and Europe by October 2008 - and is also nearing the launch of a localized version of its PlayStation Network for the Indian region.

Australia-based middleware developer BigWorld Technology has upgraded its MMO technology suite, which includes BigWorld Server Software, Content Creation Pipeline, 3D Client Engine Package, and Live Management Tools & Instrumentation, to version 1.9.

Publisher 2K Games has announced that Dark Sector developer Digital Extremes is the 'mystery' fourth developer chosen to help optimize the forthcoming PlayStation 3 version of BioShock alongside 2K Marin, 2K Boston, and 2K Australia.