Microsoft Announces XNA Studio

simoniker writes "Microsoft has announced XNA Studio at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Based on Visual Studio 2005 Team System, XNA Studio is an integrated, team-based development environment tailored specifically for video game development, and will likely launch as a PC retail product early in 2006. Gamasutra has an interview with XNA's Chris Satchell with more details on what Microsoft sees as a solution for ever-expanding cost and complexity in game development."

Comments

Re:Go Away...

[iced_773]

Wait a minute - didn't they make Halo?

Quite an interesting development

[Capt'n Hector]

However, we are still anxiously awaiting a deathmatch-based development environment. Teams are great and all, but one "TKer" can spoil the entire experience. As a programmer, I prefer to work alone. Some idiot will always mess up the plan, be it with bad warthog driving or malformed code.

Re:XNA

[ZephyrXero]

"As long as the console business is based on the blockbuster concept borrowed from Hollywood we're going to continue to get more of the same."

This is very very true. This is also why I see PC games making a big comeback as it becomes easier and easier for small teams to put together high quality indy games with open source tools. As big game companies grow larger, they will continue to get worse.

Re:So... Alienbrain?

[Winterblink]

Yeah and guess what -- those things alone would probably make it a worthwhile investment for gaming companies today. Nowadays everyone's releasing their games across as many platforms as they can. If this can make it easier for a company to develop games for two of those (arguably two of the most popular), don't you think that makes it worth at least a look?