
Avid Technology’s subsidiary, Softimage, has entered into a strategic agreement with Microsoft to design and deliver tools for authoring Microsoft Windows CE-based games for the Sega Dreamcast console. Softimage will provide game developers with an ASCII-based file format called .XSI. The .XSI file format is based on Microsoft’s popular .x file format which is already used extensively in conjunction with the Softimage GDK (game development kit) game core module.