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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
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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.
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