GDC ‘08: XNA and Xbox Live Merge
- Scribbled on February 20th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Casual Gaming, GDC, Industry News, Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Xbox Live Arcade
Microsoft has opened up XNA games to the public, in that anyone on Xbox Live may test out XNA-developed games on Xbox Live.
This new service will be rolled out “soon” and will allow Live members to access, rate, review and play new community created XNA Arcade games which will greatly increase the XBLA’s current library. And, as a sampling of what’s to come when the service debuts, Microsoft will be placing seven beta versions of XNA created games onto the XBLA so that the developers can get important feedback about their projects. Games including seven games including JellyCar, Little Gamers, TriLinea, RocketBall, ProximityHD, Culture and our personal love, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.
Even though this is basically unpaid beta-testing, it’s still free, and allows you to play games before they’re released.
(Thanks, X3F.)
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