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 ...

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 ...

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- ...

Microsoft offers multiple game ‘starter kits’ to download, with full, transparent source code – this means you can see exactly how key mechanics such as combat, exploration and inventories are handled ...

UK - 11th December - 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 on the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24, 2004 — Microsoft Corp. today announced XNA (TM) , a powerful next-generation software development platform. XNA empowers developers to deliver breakthrough games while ...

Craig Beridon, IGN Insider: Making the tools of the trade in any artistic medium affordable and readily available to the general public benefits everyone from its casual observers to hardcore ...

Alright, we're going to be straight with you: you're not going to like this. See, Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Recently, GameSpot sat down with Windows Graphics and Gaming general manager Dean Lester to discuss the current status of Longhorn, Microsoft's next ...

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 ...

The XNA runtime environment is being retired by Microsoft, the company has revealed. The goal of XNA was to enable easier development of games on Microsoft platforms, such as Xbox 360 and PC. XNA Game ...