SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 20, 2006 — In the face of escalating game development costs, expanding teams and ever more complex hardware technologies, Microsoft Corp. today delivered a pre-release version ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 11, 2006 — Your World. Your Game. With today’s release of Microsoft® XNA™ Game Studio Express and the launch of the XNA Creators Club, this phrase has never been more true. Based ...

Microsoft has announced the release of XNA Game Studio Express, a new platform which will allow Windows XP users to create, build and play games for Xbox 360. Based on the Visual C# 2005 Express ...

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 ...

Last year, Microsoft outlined a vision of a "YouTube for games" that would allow countless games created by students, hobbyist, and independent developers to be ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Late in 2006, Microsoft introduced XNA Game Studio, a suite of tools designed to make it easier for ...

Looming over the game industry are big problems, Microsoft warns. Stressed game developers are burning out, universities are graduating fewer programmers and game designers, and small-game developers- ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Microsoft is slated to begin explaining part of its Windows Phone 7 tooling story -- specifically how it plans to get more games developed for its ...

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 ...