Microsoft's been talking this one up for some time now, but XNA Game Studio Express, the so-called "YouTube for games," has finally hit the big 1.0 and is now available for would-be game designers ...

Craig Beridon, IGN Insider: Making the tools of the trade in any artistic medium affordable and readily available to the general public benefits everyone from its casual observers to hardcore ...

Code your own 360 titles! New project lets anyone develop. The Net Yaroze walked the same road. Will Microsoft succeed? Gamefest, Microsoft's yearly show for game developers, kicks off today. The ...

Now that a number of testers have downloaded a leaked version of the Windows Phone 8 software development kit (SDK), one would think it would be clear whether and how Microsoft is going to allow ...

The XNA Game Studio Express, a developer pack that will allow you to make home-brew games for the Xbox 360 and the PC, is available for Beta download. Unfortunately this version only supports Windows ...

Read on to hear what we thought of J Allard's recent surprisingly candid interview, and then either read the full transcript yourself, or download a movie of the interview direct from Eurofiles. For ...

Microsoft has this morning announced that it will be unveiling its new XNA software development platform at the Game Developers Conference later today. XNA is described as a powerful next-generation ...

All three current-gen consoles now offer original downloadable content, but the user-created offerings of XNA will make the difference in the long run, says Microsoft. Microsoft's XNA is a toolset ...

At Microsoft's Gamefest 2007, the company announced that its XNA Game Studio applications will be merged into one product-XNA 2.0. Microsoft had originally planned to split XNA into professional and ...

Though you might envision a "creator's club" to be some sort of blunt object used to beat beautiful games out of misshapen code, it's actually the next step in Microsoft's ongoing XNA initiative. The ...

The XNA runtime environment is being retired by Microsoft, the company has revealed. The goal of XNA was to enable easier development of games on Microsoft platforms, such as Xbox 360 and PC. XNA Game ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Recently, GameSpot sat down with Windows Graphics and Gaming general manager Dean Lester to discuss the current status of Longhorn, Microsoft's next ...