Monday, August 14, 2006

Microsoft Lets You Build Your Own Xbox games

This seems like a very shrewd move on Microsoft's part.

Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express is a new development kit, to be released
in beta form in August, that will be available for free to anyone using a
Windows XP PC. The kit is designed for game developer novices as well as
studios, Microsoft said.

That means they will be able to get some nice free content for Xbox live from the robust modding community out there. Sometimes the modding community creates far better content then even the pros can crank out. It should be interesting to see what XNA Game Studios will be able to create. The next Red Orchestra or Day of Defeat perhaps?

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