The beta for XNA Game Studio 2.0 is out now and ready to be downloaded. The most notable improvement over XNA Game Studio Express is the ability to bring your PC and/or Xbox 360 games online via Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live.
That's right, now your little XNA experiment can include cross-platform multiplayer, should you decide to go that route. All of the new features included with the latest version of Microsoft's popular development platform are detailed here.
Continuing in the tradition of this year's Dream-Build-Play contest, registration for Dream-Build-Play 2008 will start on December 14 with the Silicon Minds Warm-Up Challenge. In order to win, you must create a finished game using XNA that is not only fun to play, but features brilliant artificial intelligence.
The prize? An opportunity to meet with either Microsoft Research's Machine Learning Group, Rare, or Lionhead Studios for an internship in addition to GDC 08 expo passes and some cold hard cash. Not to shabby, eh? The winners for the 2007 Dream-Build-Play competition were shockingly good, so I can't wait to see what aspiring game devs have in store for us.
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I couldnt figure out how to use it..
but uh.
goodluck to the others!
Woohoo!
Survival CRisis Z is my absolute favorite zombie game, bar none, and a fantastic RPG and action game in general, and I really want Silva to continue it.
Now:
WHERE THE FUCK CAN YOU DOWNLOAD THEM?
Seems silly to give awards to games I've not even PLAYED...
But an internship? That's the best Lionhead studios could offer? A fucking internship?
I couldn't think of a better way to be congratulated than to be an entire office complex coffee and errand bitch for a month...
I got a better idea, if you win, you can be the CEO and lead game designer at Lionhead for life.
XNA will keep opening up and expanding and one day we will be able to get these games on XBLA if the dev gives us that option.
It does suck. Survival Crisis Z2 is not the only one he's pushed to the side in favor the Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. There was also apparently some sort of plans for Blood Zero 2 and Zombie Smashers X4: Guitarpocalypse which were kind of put off. ZS4 even had some screenshots, but I don't know what the hell he did with the game.