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Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

Turns out, Microsoft can't seem to wait until tomorrow.  The press releases are all out, and woah, we made an announcement!

Xna Game Studio Express?  The ability to make your own games for the Xbox 360 console?  Anyone and everyone?  Game programming on the console taught in a number of colleges?

Read more about things on these links:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/aug06/08-13XNAGameStudioPR.mspx
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6155590.html?tag=latestnews;title;1
http://editorials.teamxbox.com/xbox/1688/XNA-Game-Studio-Express-Power-to-the-Gamers/p1/
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/281098_software14.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400002.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/technology/14game.html?ref=business

 
 
 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/13/national/a210122D44.DTL

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/15267974.htm

 

And sign up for the Windows beta here.

Shh.. We can't tell anyone this yet.

Published Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:07 PM by tmiller

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Monday, August 14, 2006 4:14 AM by Binary Jam » XNA Announcement

# Binary Jam » XNA Announcement

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Monday, August 14, 2006 4:21 AM by Dan Fernandez's Blog

# Create your own Xbox 360 games with XNA Game Studio Express

Big news, the XNA team today announced a new product, XNA Game Studio Express, designed to enable...
Monday, August 14, 2006 4:31 AM by TrackBack

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Monday, August 14, 2006 4:38 AM by Promit

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

Awesome stuff. At first I thought it was leaked -- I guess you guys just have a psychotic sense of time ;)

I will really be looking forward to Aug 30, that much is sure. I am, however, kind of vague on what exactly the $99 buys. I assume that will be cleared up soon, after the actual announcements happen and the beta release comes out?
Monday, August 14, 2006 9:12 AM by Tom

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

One small question - if you want to make a game for 360 - do you have to spend the $99 at the point where you're only testing it out on your own console? Or do you only have to spend the money when you're making the game available to others?

This is important as it'll probably make the difference between me getting a 360 or not.
Monday, August 14, 2006 10:06 AM by Shinji On TheSpoke

# A hora de criar games é agora!

Pessoal, como eu venho dizendo sempre no blog a iniciativa XNA é o futuro do mercado de jogos e como...
Monday, August 14, 2006 10:54 AM by Jay

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

I could not help but laugh a little when reading "You have 30 minutes to complete this survey.", checking Student, and then being finished.

This sounds very exciting.
Monday, August 14, 2006 11:16 AM by Judah

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

Awesome. Finally, some news on XNA, and awesome news it is. Looking forward to the beta in 2 weeks.
Monday, August 14, 2006 5:16 PM by Decompiled

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

I hope Microsoft has some good documentation to go with the Beta.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:33 AM by BinaryJam

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

As for good documentation thats always nice but a really good source would be Tom's book, at least for all the managed DirectX.

I would recommend that.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:51 AM by Extrakun

# re: Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?

Wait, wait...

Is the XNA Game Studio same as the XNA Framework?
Will the XNA Framework be free too?
Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:03 PM by gamblor

# XNA beta 2 (Game Development)

Since the 1st of November the Beta 2 of the XNA Framework and XNA Game Studio Express have been released....

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