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- ...

UK - 11th December - 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 on the ...

While Microsoft’s small-developer XNA tools have been available for awhile, it was only recently that the software giant revealed plans to allow creators to get paid for their efforts. Called Xbox ...

This week, Microsoft released XNA Game Studio Express, a free-to-use set of game-design tools for Windows, aimed at getting students and hobbyists fired up about making games. Chris Satchell, the ...

Those in the know have seen this day approaching for quite some time, but Microsoft has made it official. XNA Game Studio is effectively done. A leaked internal email revealed the company is prepared ...

Emails allegedly sent to XNA developers suggest Microsoft may be phasing out the development environment behind Xbox Live Indie Games. "Presently the XNA Game Studio is not in active development and ...

Microsoft released a new set of developer tools Monday meant to ease the creation of games for the next version of the company's Xbox video game console. XNA Studio is one of the first major products ...

Over at IGN they have an interview with MS about their new XNA initiative. Most of it basically smoke and mirrors with a bunch of promises, but the themes and ideas that keep coming up are interesting ...

Microsoft and Enterbrain, the company that publishes Famitsu, are holding a contest for XNA developers where 3,600,000 yen ($40,000) in cash prizes will be awarded. One winner in each category, Xbox ...

At this year’s Game Developers’ Conference, Microsoft unveiled not only their new ‘XNA’ platform, designed to aid game developers in porting their software between the Xbox 2, PCs, and mobile devices, ...