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We caught up recently with Janelle, CEO of Protege Production (a Microsoft BizSpark startup) and Robin Tan, the Creative/Technical Director, after being included among the top 20 finalists of the Dream-Build-Play 2010 Challenge for their game Armor Valley. Below is an email interview with her: “Congratulations for being among the top 20 in DBP 2010! Quite a feat indeed, besting the other games around the world! I remember you telling us before that this year would be a challenging one because you mentioned being ‘blown away’ with the other entries you saw. What are your thoughts about that now? Anything in particular that you think propelled you to Top 20?” ...

Last night at MIX10 held at Las Vegas Microsoft announced its developer story for the Windows Phone 7 Series. If you didn’t catch the keynote last night you can watch it MIX10 Keynote A quick summary: Silverlight 4 is now on RC. Final build will be out next month Silverlight on 60% of all internet connected devices Expression Blend 4 preview out. Free upgrade to Expression 3 owners. Windows Phone 7 uses Silverlight and XNA. Uses the same Silverlight you know on the web. Uses Visual Studio 2010 with free tools. Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone XNA for Windows Phone Same XNA platform for PC, Phone and Xbox Tonight will be another big night full of releases. Hope to see you there! Chris was our man on the street reporting live from Vegas. ...