News from Game Developers Conference 2005

News continues to pour in from this year's Game Developers Conference, which is taking place this week in San Francisco. 

Here are some Microsoft tidbits:

J Allard announced details about the Next-Gen XBox.

The XNA Studio game development suite, an extension of Visual Studio that is tailored for video game development, is in the pipe.

Microsoft Game Studios will be using the Unreal 3 engine - which lives up to its name.