Michael Klucher Program Manager – XNA Game Studio I hope this past week following our announcement went by fairly quickly for you. The XNA Game Studio team is pleased to announce that you can now download XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2 from the XNA Developer...

Michael Klucher Program Manager – XNA Game Studio Our first beta of XNA Game Studio Express has been a tremendous success. The number of downloads, activity in online communities and especially the level of excitement out there in general has been nothing...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Game Studio Like testing software? Want to help make XNA Game Studio Express as great as it can be? The Visual Studio team recently announced the availability of Visual C# Express SP1 Beta, designed to add stability...

Joe Nalewabau XNA Shaman - XNA Team Two recurring questions on the XNA Game Studio Express forums are: Why is XNA Game Studio Express only for C# developers (since .NET supports multiple programming languages)? Why is XNA Game Studio Express only available...

Christina Storm Group Program Manager - XNA Team Frank Savage, development manager of the XNA Game Studio team, presented a webcast on September 26, during which he introduced the XNA Game Studio Express starter kit “Spacewar”. The webcast is almost one...

Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Team Hello, everyone, our blog has slowed down a bit as much of our team is really pushing to get the final features into the product. We’ve seen that you have a lot of questions about XNA Game Studio , and as such...

Scott Miller XNA Documentation We've had a number of questions in the XNA forums about the missing Load Resources How To, so I thought I'd try to clear up the issue. The Load Resources How To was merged with the Simple Game Loop How To because...

Now that you have all had a chance to try out our XNA Game Studio Express Beta , had some fun with it, submitted useful feedback to us (I hope!), it's time to get serious about XNA. We are still hiring and have a key position on the XNA Program Management...

Debugging visualizers are a cool feature of Visual Studio 2005 available to C# developers. I’d like to show you how to add some simple debugger visualizers to the Beta version of the XNA Framework. You can find general information about debugger visualizers...

During my Creating Games with the XNA Framework session at Gamefest, I did a demo about the component model of the XNA Framework. I thought some of you who didn’t get a chance to attend Gamefest might find it interesting so I made a recording of the demo...

The day has come! You can download XNA Game Studio Express (Beta) from the following location on the XNA Developer Center http://msdn.com/directx/xna/gse . One reason we release beta software is to put it in the hands of the community and start getting...

So we've talked about XNA Game Studio Express, and just the other day Mitch posted all about the XNA Framework that XNA Game Studio Express uses. Let's talk about another piece of the XNA Game Studio Express product—namely, the XNA Framework Content Pipeline...

Last week we announced XNA Game Studio Express, which is a product that enables students and hobbyist game programmers to create games using C# that will run on both Windows and their Xbox 360. The XNA Framework is the set of .NET libraries that developers...

Hello again, I can’t tell you all how great it is to finally talk about what we’ve really been building in the XNA team. At GDC this year we showed off managed code running on an Xbox 360. We positioned it as a tool to help the professional industry,...

Hello everybody and welcome to the XNA Team Blog. This is an exciting time for myself and everyone else on the team as we finally get to go public tomorrow morning at Gamefest with the “Big Thing” we’ve been working on. I’m pleasantly surprised that it...