Please fill in the field below to receive your profile link.
ADVERTISEMENT
Microsoft opens Xbox 360 to developers
Move aims to bring more than 1,000 new games to Xbox Live this year
Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com21 Feb 2008
ADVERTISEMENT
Microsoft
has announced plans to open its
Xbox
Live service to all third-party developers.
The move will allow any developer, amateur or professional, to distribute an
Xbox 360 game without having to print or distribute discs for the console.
Microsoft hopes that the initiative will bring more than 1,000 new games to
Xbox Live by the end of the year.
"The time has come for the games industry to open its doors to all game
creators, enabling anyone to share their creations with the world," said John
Schappert, corporate vice president of Live software and services at Microsoft.
"Our goal is to drive a creative and social revolution in games with the same
transformative power that we have seen in digital music and video sharing."
Developers will be able to create games via Microsoft's
XNA
Game Studio development tool.
The developer will be required to buy a subscription to the
XNA
Creators Club at $49 for four months or $99 for one year in order to upload
the games.
Games are then reviewed by other users, who can approve the game for
distribution on
Xbox
Live Marketplace.
Junior Systems Administrator, Leeds As part of a new, national initiative, you'll help our Systems Administrators provide our Co-ordinating Centre with the best possible support. Whether it's the network, servers, local workstations or desktop support, ... more >
Posts of IT Assistants, Strasbourg, France The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, is a political organisation founded in 1949 to promote greater unity among its member States. Today its membership numbers 47 States ... more >
Colindale (C1905), United Kingdom | NHS Blood and Transplant
Operations Engineer, £28,313 - £37,326 pa plus High Cost Area Supplement, Colindale (C1905) About us The National Blood Service is an integral and vital part of the NHS. Our two million volunteer donors contribute 1.6 ... more >
South West, Darlington, United Kingdom | University College Falmouth
Web Sharepoint Development Manager, £23,692-£26,665 (£29,138) per annum (Grade 5) The creation of a new University for the Arts in the South West has taken a major step forward with the merger of University ... more >More job opportunities
Print
Discuss
Send to friend
RSS feeds
Daily news podcast
Sequel 'more badass' than previous offering, says Microsoft 21 Feb 2008
Gadget allows gamers to interact with the virtual world 20 Feb 2008
del.icio.us
Digg this
reddit!
