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August 14, 2006
WSJ: Microsoft to Offer Software To Make Game Creation Easier
Wall Street Journal Online: Microsoft to Offer Software To Make Game Creation Easier
"Making console videogames has long been the turf of sophisticated professional game developers. Now Microsoft Corp., in a nod to YouTube, MySpace and other popular sources of user-generated content, says it wants to turn ordinary players into console game makers.
Later this month, Microsoft plans to introduce a test version of software that it says will dramatically simplify the creation of basic games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console. The novice game makers that are the intended audience for the software, called XNA Game Studio Express, aren't likely to create games of the caliber of Halo and Madden football, both blockbuster game franchises that took millions of dollars to make. But there's also a growing following among Xbox 360 users for simpler games that can be downloaded from Microsoft's Xbox Live online-gaming service, including a hit space shooting game called Geometry Wars."
Source: Wall Street Journal
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