GAME OF X V.2

Contents

About This Book

Author’s Preface

Part I: The Long Path to Xbox

0. Looking Back

1. Microsoft Always Had Games

2. Microsoft Culture

3. The Developer Relations Group

4. Windows Gets Gamed

5. Windows: Path to Dominance

6. The Other Face of the DRG

7. The Disruptor

Part II: Talking to the Metal

8. The Importance of Graphics

9. The Games Division

10. Pitfalls for Christmas

11. The Manhattan Project

12. 3D Wars

13. Start Me Up!

14. Judgment Day

15. The Millionaire Club

16. Japan

17. Bunnygate

18. Judgment Day II

19. Reorgs

20. Taking On the Internet

21. DirectX Media

22. Escalating the Graphics Wars

23. The OpenGL Letters—Part 1

24. Multimedia Retreat

25. The End of Talisman

26. The OpenGL Letters—Part 2

27. Facing The Man

28. Chrome—Plan B

29. Culture Changes

Author’s Postscript