Thursday, August 16, 2007

XNA 2.0 is out and has networking

Well its finally happened, actually it happened when I was out on vacation and I just found out about it but Microsoft has release version 2.0 of their XNA framework. For those unfamiliar with the story the XNA framework is a managed support library that Microsoft has released that is optimized for game development. The idea is to create a nice base platform that allow third party home brew developers to write games that can run on the Windows operating system environment or the XBOX 360 environment.
The latest release finally supports integration with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just the C# Express edition. The other big feature includes networking support that will work over XBOX Live, this will definitely make for some interesting games. In any case I'm pretty excited about the new versions features. I just now need some spare time to start developing with it and probably put up a few more tutorials. Check out the link here. (Thanks to Gizmodo for the link)

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