LONDON, 12th December, 2007 - Microsoft Corp. today marked the next step in its initiative to democratise game development and unleash the creativity of the community with the release of the XNA Game ...

Microsoft has released the second major iteration of its XNA Game Studio Express beta, upgraded with full functionality for Windows and third party toolset support, allowing hobbyists, academics and ...

XNA Game Studio Express is a new offering, targeted at students and hobbyists for game development. XNA Game Studio Express is based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers target both Windows ...

Microsoft releases developer tools for creating Xbox games as part of a push to create a YouTube-equivalent for video gamers. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts.

XNA Game Studio 3.1 has been released, and with it Xbox LIVE Community Games has been renamed to Xbox LIVE Indie Games. The new version of the XNA package contains plenty of new features, including ...

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 plans free tools for enthusiasts to make own games, but at first only other hard-core gamers will be able to share the creations. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats ...

So, I've got a C# / XNA game (Visual Studio 2008 express, .Net 3 and XNA 3.0 if it matters) that we're planning on distributing to a large (hopefully thousands) audience in a couple of weeks' time.