As many of you might have known now, Microsoft is going big into the digital media industry with Expressions, XNA, Silverlight and the list just goes on. Recently, with the release of DirectX 10 and Windows Vista, trends have indicated that improved visuals are simply romancing developers as well as gamers! As we know today, game story & game play is important, however, user experience is going to be one of the factors that gamers look out for too! Figure1: The lastest version of flight simulator leaveraging on DirectX 10 Improvements could pass consoles The latest improvements, many believe, far surpass even the very best of what the consoles are capable of. Case in point: the upcoming PC shooter "Crysis," where players take the role of a battle-savvy soldier who has to uncover the secrets behind an asteroid that has smashed into Earth. Beams of light glimmer through a jungle overgrown with swaying palm trees, and the thick underbrush gets more detailed with a closer look. Gaze into...