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...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller Program Manager - XNA Community Today, we are delivering the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of XNA Game Studio 3.0, giving you the ability to build games for the entire family of Zune media devices. This...

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...

Michael Klucher Program Manager – XNA Community Game Platform Team In April of this year you’ll be able to download an update to XNA Game Studio Express, this release mainly focuses fixing your requests and issues that you’ve filed through the Microsoft...

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,...

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...

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 Game Studio It's a bit early in the morning for all of us, but we wanted to be one of the first to tell you that XNA Game Studio Express has been released! To download the released product for Windows, head over to...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller Program Manager - XNA Community Next week, the XNA Creators Club Online site will be shut down for a short time in preparation for the launch of our new site featuring the Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta . We’re excited...

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...

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...

Dave Mitchell Director | XNA your dream game - build it today - millions may play it tomorrow Things are shaping up incredibly well on the Dream.Build.Play. front. We're finalizing a few remaining details before flipping the switch on the site over at...

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...

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...

Come join the members of the XNA team as we celebrate the launch of XNA Game Studio Express and the XNA Creators Club! You’ll see demonstrations of how you can build and run XNA Framework-based games on your Xbox 360 and Windows PC, as well as getting...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 | 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...

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...

David " LetsKillDave " Weller Program Manager - XNA Community Today, we delivered on the promise we made at GDC to democratize game development with the launch of the newly designed XNA Creators Club Online Web site and the highly anticipated...

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....