SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 20, 2006 — In the face of escalating game development costs, expanding teams and ever more complex hardware technologies, Microsoft Corp. today delivered a pre-release version ...

Microsoft has released the first public version of its XNA game development platform today at the Game Developers Conference 2006 in San Jose, California. The company has also made this "Microsoft XNA ...

Update: Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be producing further versions of XNA. Microsoft is phasing out its XNA development framework, according to an e-mail allegedly sent to a number of ...

XNA Studio represents a set of tools and technologies Microsoft is building to help streamline and optimise the game development process. "Developers need a better way to make games and manage the ...