Title: GDC2007: Fantastic XNA news
Slug: gdc2007-fantastic-xna-news
Date: 2007-03-08 15:34:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Game Dev, XNA
Description: GDC 2007 brought exciting XNA news.

<p>Today's been the "XNA day" at the <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/">GDC 2007</a>, and as expected there are a lot of fantastic news:</p>
<ul>
<li>Next revision of XNA will feature things like <b>Windows Vista Support</b> (at last!), XACT 3D (3D audio!), bitmap fonts, volume textures, icons for the games and many other bugfixes and improvements. Schedule is April.</li>
<li>They are investigating ways to allow making XBox Live Arcade Games</li>
<li>Networking (including Live, but with restrictions as any other XBLA game)</li>
<li>Video</li>
<li>Sharing games with non-XNAGSE users</li>
<li>Making money with XNA games</li></ul>
<p>Oh, and the slides from the speeches have been released too <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/aa937787.aspx">here</a>. Seems that I won't be sleeping too much in some weeks ;)</p>