With the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 (it is currently in Beta), one of the big features of the release is the ability to write your own games on a Zune device. This is a very exciting prospect for a lot of people as well as the XNA Game Studio dev team. When [...]
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You know… I still remember when I first joined this team back in 2005. Back then, the entire team could fit around one conference table and leave a few chairs open. Most of what we knew was that we were called the “XNA Team”. What are we going to do? Still not sure. We had [...]
So! Wanna try writing a few games on your Zune V1 and 2 device? Maybe even have it be a multiplayer game as well? Or maybe you just want to write a nifty frontend to your music library! All of that and more can be done with the newly released preview of the upcoming version [...]
Some of you may not know that Game Developers Conference is happening now, and we are super excited about it! The XNA GS team is making two very very cool announcements: Zune is a new platform for game development and the ability to publish your games online for consumption through Xbox Live marketplace! This is [...]
I am very excited to share the news about XNA Game Studio 2.0 having been released! You can grab your copy from here. Ok, fine, my post is a few days late (XNA Game Studio 2.0 was released last Thursday 13th Dec), but I have an excuse! I got on an airplane heading back home [...]
We are very proud to finally manage to get the beta bits of XNA Game Studio 2.0 in your hands! We are extremely excited with this version. Some of the new features include:
Visual Studio 2005 Pro and up support (as well as Express of course)
Networking! You can write games that use Xbox Live on Windows [...]
So…we’re nearing the time to release Beta 2 of the XNA Game Studio product. The framework has gone through some more cleanups and is much better organized than it was in beta 1. The new component for the beta 2 is the Content Pipeline. The sweetness that is the content pipeline is something that must [...]