XNA Studio Express Info

Winkyboy sent along this page from Microsoft which outlines the latest beta of XNA Studio Express. Amongst the tidbits include the lack of "retail" game development as well as support for the content pipeline. Towards the bottom they point you to the "X" edition of the Torque game platform, which I can mostly recommend is worthy trying to giving a go.

Apparently Game Informer gave a full page spread on this and included the following links as resources:

www.thezbuffer.com
www.learnxna.com
www.xnaspot.com
www.xbox360homebrew.com
www.exdream.no-ip.info/blog
www.ziggyware.com
www.xnadevelopment.com
www.xnatutorial.com
www.thehazymind.com/XNAEngine.htm
http://pilot.vector4.com/xnainfo/

It really feels like XNA Studio Express is still finding its stride, but I still think its great that Microsoft is putting this out there. I'm pretty content with Mac development right now, but there's a decent chance it won't pan out as I like. Hopefully while I'm goofing around with iTunes more people can put this concept to the test.

Thanks again to Dan for sending this along.


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