Looking at Silverlight – for a long time considered writing simple games for the web but the only viable option being flash. When I tried this with multi bitmaps onscreen at the same time, flash just keeled over. So spent some time looking at games written in Silverlight 2. At the moment all I can find are very basic, the best being a helicopter mashup with Google maps – the helicopter flying over a maps landscape shooting spaceships that crop up here and there. Books on Silverlight 2 are still being written, and Silverlight 1 requires the use of Javascript rather than C#/VB. Microsoft are obviously trying to get the games ball rolling by sponsoring a games competition and I will wait to see what comes out of this, to assess whether it can be used as a games platform for doing 8 bit games rewrites. A further gripe is the restriction of Silverlight requiring newer processors – it wont run on a 800Mhz PC – why?