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Microsoft Spreads the Game Development Wealth with XNA Game Studio Express
Posted Aug 13, 2006 at 5:45PM EST by QJ Staff

 Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: gaming accessories, Microsoft, Windows XP
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Microsoft has announced a program that would allow the small guy to build 360 games like the pros.

Chris Satchell, general manager of Microsoft's Game Developer Group, announced details of the program at Gamefest 2006 in Seattle. The XNA Game Studio Express, based on the XNA platform, will run off Windows-XP based PCs and provides end users with Microsoft's "next-generation platform for game development."

This budding game development community can also subscribe to a "creator's club" where (for US$99) they can test and share their prototype games, as well as access additional materials to help complete their projects. To quote the press release, "This represents the first significant opportunity for novice developers to make a console game without a significant investment in resources." The platform will also be capable of creating games for Windows XP, the press release noted.

In the same event Mr. Satchell also cited academic institutions that were interested in including XNA Game Studio Express (and the XBox 360) in their curricula, such as the University of Southern California, Georgia Tech College of Computing, and Southern Methodist University Guildhall.

Not forgetting the established game developers, an XNA toolset geared to their needs is also slated to be released in spring 2007. A beta version of XNA Game Studio Express will be available for free download on August 30.

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# Biggest News Since E3 Downsizing — Guest 2006-08-13 20:05
I hope everyone knows how much this has completely altered the next few years of all things Xbox. This is absolutely huge news... Sony and Nintendo just got owned.



Seriously, the fact that serious game sites are having to have someone write up this story at 3:00am on a Sunday tells us how important this is going to be.



Nice one Microsoft!

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# HAH! — Guest 2006-08-13 20:56
To poster #1...Sony has been doing this for the ages and ages. And getting owned? I doubt it. You have to pay for this, while Sony let you do this for FREE. If someone got owned, it's MS (or Nintendo, because they STILL aren't doing this).

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# HAHA — Guest 2006-08-13 22:16
#3: Caps suck but your right, Harblurger is a piece of *****. :D

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# . — Guest 2006-08-14 00:00
this is awesome news. true sony has done it before (and it wasnt free you had to buy this big black playstation to do it) but this time the indy devs have a whole community to release it on, not to mention its free unless you want to host it online, which you need to pay a small fee for, but if the games good you will profit.

well done ms :D

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# Guest 2006-08-14 01:55
great... now all we need is a way to play our code on the 360 :P

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# .. — Guest 2006-08-14 05:34
Wasn't Nintendo doing this for their virtual console thingy as well?

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# It's awesome! — ssj3fox 2006-08-14 06:15
It's why I love PC gaming! I thought it would never happen on a console but now it is! I hope this idea spreads like wild fire! This could mean free indy games just like the PC! This also means fresh ideas and new kinds of game play! This is just cool!

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# Homebrew? — Guest 2006-08-14 06:46
So this is to basically help out the homebrew community and at the same time trying to curb piracy since the 360 owner does not have to mod his box to play homebrew.



No?

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# #10 — ssj3fox 2006-08-14 08:21
That's what I got out of it...

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