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Beta Release of Microsoft’s Game Development Tool

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Tags: Video games, Xbox, Microsoft

In an ever increasingly competitive console market, Microsoft has finally let loose it’s first sexy salvo into the future faces of Sony’s pricey PS3 and Nintendo’s tiny Wii. The recently released beta of its XNA Studio now puts tips and tools in the hands of those itching to create games for PCs and the Xbox 360.



XNA Game Studio Express will enable you to create Windows and now Xbox 360 console games much more easily. These games are limited to non-commercial scenarios for 360 titles created with XNA Game Studio Express. However, XNA Game Studio Express may be used to create commercial games which target Windows. We will be releasing XNA Game Studio Professional next spring which will allow developers to create commercial games for Xbox addition to Windows.



Indie game developers, video game enthusiasts, and eager students now have one hell of a community and set of tools with which to begin creating their very own games. Thankfully, the price of said tools is reasonable to anyone with a job or those proficient in the dark arts of thievery and light mugging.

The XNA Game Studio Express tools and runtime environment for Windows is completely free. To develop, debug and/or play games on the Xbox 360 you will be required to purchase a XNA “Creator’s Club” subscription on the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Marketplace. The subscription is available in 2 options, $99 a year or $49 for 4 months.



The continued growth and popularity of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade content coupled with hilariously high development costs for mainstream games, has created an enormous market for low budget indie titles easily and cheaply delivered to gamers. We can only hope that the slight cost of entry will keep such horrifying titles as “Bangkok Suck Slaves in Space” and “Fashion Force Five: Assault on Tragicstan” as ever being created.

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Sexdwarf

Sexdwarf

Hermosa Beach, CA
February 2003

AUG 31, 2006 05:54 PM

Damn it, ok, now I'll be willing to say PS3 is vulture foder.
Allowing/Giving a venue for creating your own games, sooo . . . good games, is easilly the smartest marketing move. imo

metal_halo

metal_halo

Hermitage, TN
October 2004

AUG 31, 2006 06:15 PM

holy shit.

awesome it's in C#, been using it for a year or so, good stuff.



rawr

DaGhost

DaGhost

USA
December 2003

AUG 31, 2006 08:03 PM

360 Hentai sexventure game here we come.

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