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Xbox Game Creator Software Now Out, Available For Download
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft’s “Kodu Game Lab” – often labelled the “LittleBigPlanet of the Xbox 360″ – is now available for download via Xbox Live Community Games. More »
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Gorgeous Grapple Buggy Looks Like Bionic Car-mando
10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Meet Grapple Buggy, an upcoming Xbox Live Community Games title that reaches deep within the psyche to reference fondly remembered games like Bionic Commando and Blaster Master, with a little Contra-esque alien design. More »
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Binary Tweed Launches Politically-Charged Clover
1:40AM Mike Fahey | Independent developer Binary Tweed has finally released the politically-pointed watercolour platforming adventure Clover via the Xbox Live Community Games Program. More »
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12:00PM David Wildgoose | We know that the Xbox 360’s Community Games don’t sell and don’t make any money. Aussie developer Halfbrick has a solution.
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Aussie Dev Calls For Community Games Ratings System
12:00PM David Wildgoose | We know that the Xbox 360’s Community Games don’t sell and don’t make any money. Aussie developer Halfbrick has a solution.
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XNA Games Don’t Sell, Don’t Make Money
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Much was made of Microsoft’s attempt at gestating a user-created gaming platform on the 360 with their Community Games service. But six months on from launch, how well is it faring? More »
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Your Xbox 360 Massages You Gently
6:20AM Mike Fahey | The XNA Community Games program continues to be a wealth of innovation on the Xbox 360, as a new program available for download (in North America, at least) turns your 360 controller into a “portable massager”.
When’s All This Xbox 360 Stuff Coming to Australia?
1:00PM David Wildgoose | Microsoft’s CES announcement of Kodu, its LittleBigPlanet rip-off take on the whole user-generated content craze, looks really cool. (Almost as cool as two hot chicks playing Xbox together.) Thing is, Kodu is part of the XNA Community Games Channel, which isn’t actually available in Australia. Also at CES, Microsoft revealed a launch date for Primetime, the Xbox Live game show channel where players compete with each other for real prizes in formats like 1 vs 100.
Will we be getting any of these features in Australia? I put this question to Microsoft… More » 
XNA User Creates Ultimate 360 Fireplace
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Now owners of Xbox 360 consoles with temperature control issues can finally put that extra heat to practical use with the innovative Xbox Live Community game, Fireplace. More »
Microsoft Responds To Community Games Quality Concerns
9:20AM Leigh Alexander | When former XNA community manager David Weller expressed concerns about crowding and quality standards when the new Community Games launch on Xbox Live, it resembled some of the discussions that have been had in the past regarding Xbox Live Arcade. However, a Microsoft representative was quick to respond to Weller’s concern that the company has a quality control problem, highlighting a few key ways that it plans to ensure its users get the best experience.
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