Microsoft's XNA Game Studio was made to allow anyone to create a game that could be released and sold digitally for its Xbox 360 console. It launched 17 years ago today on August 30, 2006. Earlier ...

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

On Monday, Microsoft celebrated the official full release of Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio for both Windows and the Xbox 360. The beta program started in March of this year, and allowed developers a ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released its XNA Game Studio Express Beta, software for aspiring game developers. The program is compatible with both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and all games developed on the ...

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 ...

Microsoft has no plans to produce future versions of its XNA development tool, a spokesman for the company confirmed with Polygon today. Earlier this morning, an email was sent to select employees and ...

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 ...

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- ...