Dax Hawkins XNA Community Games Lead We’re thrilled about the responses we’ve been getting about our community games announcement! I know many of you have more questions. We’re investigating getting a video done that covers our GDC session talk...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller XNA Evangelist Due to overwhelming response, we've decided to extend the time window where people can download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher and play the games during the trial of Xbox LIVE Community Games - the...

Charles Cox XNA Developer Educator We’d like to invite you to test your skill with XNA Game Studio and win fabulous prizes at the 2008 Game Developers Conference! Join one of eight exciting sessions of the XNA Game Studio AI Challenge ...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller XNA Evangelist The XNA team is delighted to announce the Xbox LIVE community games, scheduled for launch in the holiday 2008 season. This is the stuff we know you’ve all been waiting for, and we can finally say ...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller XNA Evangelist We could have rested on our laurels by just announcing the new Xbox LIVE community games and XNA Creators Club Online features, but we’re a driven bunch of people here, and we’re passionate about gaming...

David “LetsKillDave” Weller XNA Community Evangelist We’d like to offer a reminder that the 2008 Game Developers Conference is only a week away. For those of you that might still be on the fence about attending, here’s 4 exciting reasons why...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform Now that many of you have gotten a chance to use XNA Game Studio 2.0 we'd like to hear your feedback on using the product. We have created a survey which can be accessed through our Microsoft...

Dave Mitchell Director | XNA We’re looking for a few 2D and 3D games created using XNA Game Studio for an upcoming opportunity to showcase the great work our community has been doing since we released the tools over a year ago.  This could...

Michael Klucher Program Manager – XNA Community Game Platform On behalf of the XNA team, I am pleased to announce the availability of XNA Game Studio 2.0 beginning early morning Dec 13 th , 2007 PST. To get your own copy of XNA Game Studio 2.0,...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform This Friday, December 7 th , will be your final chance to download the beta of XNA Game Studio 2.0. We are ending the beta program in preparation for our final release. Additionally, the Games...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform If you own an Xbox 360 console, hopefully you've caught news of the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update from Major Nelson . I wanted to give XNA Creators Club members a look at how you'll work with...

Dave Mitchell Director | Microsoft XNA Just a quick heads up while on the road in Europe.  My good friend Andy Sithers in the UK just let me know of a very cool event taking place on Dec 4 th in Bristol.  It is being hosted by the .NET Developer...

Dave Mitchell Director | XNA I'm pleased to share details on an exciting European tour that will be commencing in just a few days and featuring XNA Game Studio 2.0!  Charles Cox and I will be blazing through 7 countries in roughly 10 days as we bring...

The XNA team is pleased to announce the Beta release of XNA Game Studio 2.0! This Beta release is your chance to try out the new features available in XNA Game Studio 2.0, including support for Visual Studio 2005, multiplayer support over System Link...

Michael Klucher Program Manger - XNA Community Game Platform In continuing our look at XNA Game Studio 2.0, you’ll notice we've made quite a few changes to streamline the workflow on the Xbox 360 console and make it a better experience overall....

Michael Klucher Program Manger - XNA Community Game Platform One of the biggest features in the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio is the ability to create networked games over Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows® - LIVE. We thought we'd take some time...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform It's been a while since we posted on the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 release. The good news is that there will be a XNA Game Studio 2.0 beta available for you to download very soon! This beta...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform While we're still hard at work on XNA Game Studio 2.0 we've managed to also bring you a new round of content on http://creators.xna.com for the month of September! Samples Collision with a...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform If you're looking to read up on XNA Game Studio Express, CoDe Magazine has the new September/October issue of the print version of the Magazine available on their website http://www.code-magazine...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform Whew! Gamefest 2007 has come and gone but beyond the announcement of XNA Game Studio 2.0 there was still a lot of news worth circling back on! Dream Build Play Winners Hopefully, you didn’t...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform Wow! It's hard to believe that a year ago on this blog we announced the first release of XNA Game Studio Express. Now, here we are again at Gamefest 2007 and, on behalf of the XNA Community...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform You may have caught this earlier on http://creators.xna.com but if not, here's some great news for those of you unable to make to Gamefest this year: We are delighted to announce that we will...

Dave Mitchell Director | XNA On behalf of everyone here in the XNA organization at Microsoft, I’m pleased to announce that the top 20 finalists in the Dream-Build-Play competition have been announced on our main contest website . Back in March we challenged...

Michael Klucher Program Manager – XNA Community Game Platform Another new Mini game, Vector Rumble has been released on http://creators.xna.com . Vector Rumble is a two-dimensional shooter, pitting up to four players against one another in a death match...

Earlier this year at GDC we announced a series of partnerships with several companies that will provide premium benefits to our 4 month and annual members of the XNA Creators Club. Today we are pleased to announce that Torque X and Torque X Builder (...