According to PC World, a new game development platform from Microsoft allows anyone to create games for its Xbox 360 gaming console.Usually, console games are designed by large game studios that must pay high prices to buy development kits in order to write games for consoles like Xbox and PlayStation. Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express is a new development kit that will be released in beta version this month. It will be available for free to anyone running Windows XP. The development kit is well-designed for novice game developers as well as those developers working in studios.
The XNA Game Studio Express development environment is based on Visual Studio Express and .NET, and allows developers to create games simultaneously for Xbox 360 console and Windows XP. Well, maybe it’s not really for everyone - you do need to have a sound programming knowledge before you try to create your own games.
Microsoft expects the final non-beta version of the development platform to become available by the end of the year – just in time for Christmas – and I hear that another version of XNA Game Studio Express (designed for professional game developers) will become available in early 2007.
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