Saturday 18 October 2008

XNA 3.0 to be released, support for mobile device and Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft has revealed that XNA Game Studio 3.0 will be released on October 30th. The latest version chiefly adds Microsoft's Zune music player as a development target, as well as supporting the new Xbox Live Community Games initiative - itself planned to launch as part of the New Xbox Experience hitting Xbox 360s worldwide on November 19th.

More importantly for most, it's the first release of XNA to properly support Visual Studio 2008. In preparation for the Community Games launch, the XNA team has also penned the first draft of what it calls the Community Games Best Practices - a set of guidelines geared towards providing the best experience for players and converting them into buyers.

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