30
Aug
2006
XNA Studio Express Beta Released
Microsoft has just posted the first beta for XNA Studio Express, the free version of their XNA Studio development tool (which, at some point, should allow community creation of games for the Xbox 360). I have yet to install this myself, but take care with the prerequisites. It appears to require Visual C# Express. Not a problem, but I see no mention of whether or not a full version of Visual Studio will suffice. I assume that it will, but there's always a chance that MS did something silly here. You'll also need to grab the August 2006 DirectX SDK if you want the audio tools.