For those of you who were wondering if they had missed the Meltdown conference this year don't worry - it didn't happen. Instead Microsoft has a later summer game conference in Seattle called Gamefest. The dates are August 14th and 15th. You can't sign up yet but you can give them an email address for announcements.

Brian Keller has previously said that the next XNA Framework announcements will be at Gamefest so lets hope everything is still on schedule for that.