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MIX10 officially begins tomorrow in Las Vegas. MIX is an annual event we put on for designers and developers to learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools. Essentially we’re bringing a bunch of designers and developers together to talk about bringing together the clients, servers and cloud services to create great rich web applications.

What an exciting week this week will be! I won’t be attending MIX10 myself this year, so I will be joining the many who could not attend by watching MIX10 unfold online – and live.

The Day 1 keynote and Day 2 keynote will begin at 9am PDT on Monday and Tuesday and will be delivered by Scott Guthrie, Joe Belfiore, Dean Hachamovitch, Doug Purdy, and Bill Buxton. These keynotes will be streamed live at the MIX10 website.

Immediately following each keynote (10:30am PDT), Channel 9 Live will begin streaming with a ton of live content throughout the day and a lot of special guests. You can check out the full Channel 9 Live schedule here and who will be stopping by! They have a lot of great people coming by – from Scott Hanselman to Dean Hachamovitch to Loic Le Meur from Seesmic! Again, all of this will take place on the MIX10 website. You can submit questions through @c9live to be answered on Channel 9 Live throughout each day. Go ahead and send your questions, tell them Brandon sent you

There is also a MIX10 Virtual Press Room set up on the Microsoft News Center for all kinds of press materials and links to MIX10 content from around the web. You can follow @MIXEvent for the latest on MIX10 on Twitter as well.

And of course we’ll have some blog posts coming this week around MIX10 too! I will also be doing some tweeting from @windowsblog as well.

Like I said, this week is shaping up to be very exciting!

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The Games on Demand “Spring Sale” continues this week with BioShock 2. BioShock 2 is available at 25% off ($37.49 USD) now through tomorrow March 15th 5pm Redmond time (Pacific). If you purchase both BioShock 2 AND the Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack add-on pack through Games on Demand, you will receive a free gift of 800 Microsoft Points!

Remember, to take advantage of these deals and Games on Demand, you need to be running the Games for Windows – LIVE client which can be downloaded here.

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Are you ready to drop some major bucks for an Xbox 360 faceplate? Say, US$ 200? Someone up on eBay apparently is, after bidding for an “extremely rare” Need for Speed ProStreet faceplate.
 
 
 

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We’ve read all the available info about the new Modern Warfare 2 map collection “Stimulus Package,” but we still didn’t have an answer to the big question on everyone’s mind: “Is that the game with a bunch of guys or the one with the beards?” That, we still don’t know. However, we’ve gotten an answer to the second biggest question from Xbox Live’s Major Nelson: The five maps (three new, two remakes) will run you 1200 MS points or $15.

As a basis for comparison, the “Variety” map pack for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ran 800 points ($10) for four new maps. Whether or not the new offering is a stimulating enough value is a decision you’ll have to make for yourself when it arrives on March 30.

Modern Warfare 2 ‘Stimulus Package’ costs $15 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Major Nelson’s weekly podcast this week had Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling up in the hotseat. On top of his discussion list were more information on the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 DLC.
 
 
 

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Could there finally be an official release window for Gran Turismo 5? Here we go, we’d rather not get our little hearts disappointed yet again, but a Sony representative allegedly told an Italian gaming site at the

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There’s only one thing that Hideo Kojima intends to promise for his PSP offering, Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker: it’s going to be handheld marvel.
 
 
 

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They’ve said it before, and they don’t seem to have a problem saying it over and over again. Halo: Reach is the best Halo game ever made, and it’s most probably the most powerful title Bungie’s ever

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Worried that Valve might be “stealing” creative talents from Naughty Dog? Not so fast. The news pinpointed three devs namely, Vitaliy Genkin, Elan Ruskin, and Alex Vlachos. All three of them have worked for Valve some couple

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Here’s definitely something to look forward to, if in case it does push through. God of War III director, Stig Asmussen, revealed in a podcast that if the GoW III ending does come back as DLC, it’s

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