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Bing, Microsoft’s formerly code-named Kumo, is no longer rumor. Microsoft will be releasing it’s new wave search engine fully on June 3, at http://www.bing.com. Dubbed a “Decision Engine”, bing.com piques my curiousity more than a little, since this seems to be one of the only corners of the computer software industry that Microsoft has thus far failed to completely wrap it’s hands around. I will try it… but I probably will stick with Google.

Yosumin!, a puzzle game from Square Enix, has hit the western shorelines. Sporting cartoonish graphics and a soundtrack not unlike Nintendo’s Kirby games, this puzzle game reminds you a lot of Bejewelled, save for the gameplay. In Yosumin!, you are to connect the corners of a rectangle of matching colors in order to clear the game screen. As with most puzzle games you may have ever played, the difficulty in finding these rectangles gradually escalates as you progress in levels. There is a playable flash demo available to get a feel for the game, though apparently the Xbox and PC versions sport flashier graphics and an “adventure” mode. Check it out, you may just waste ten minutes of your life

Welcome to Tech Filter. The goal of this website is to help other game developers come together to a single site for information, tutorials, discussions, code examples, ideas, and networking. There are many sites out there with code examples and tutorials not specifically targetted towards the game dev world (with exceptions like GameDev.net), and that’s just what I plan to cure. Over the next few weeks I will be posting blogs with miniature code examples which can be used in many types of games. I will also be developing the site to have more content for you, the game dev. Check back tomorrow for the first example.