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Microsoft Closes Game Development Program

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft have been getting into user-created gaming in a big way of late. First Xbox LIVE Community Games, then Kodu. Which means they have little use for their original games creator, Popfly. More »
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Xbox 360 Game Creation Tool Kodu Now Live – Got Any Ideas?

7:59AM Stephen Totilo | During the Game Developers Conference, I had a chance to try Kodu, a programming tool created by Microsoft to help give children the experience of writing programming code and seeing that code make things happen. More »
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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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Microsoft’s Create-A-Game Game Out This Month

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Despite it’s simple appearance, it’s clear Microsoft are dipping their toes in the LittleBigPlanet sea with Kodu. While the game was a no-show at E3, it’ll be a show-show on 360s later this month. More »

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 »

Microsoft Inch Further Up The LittleBigPlanet Bandwagon With Kodu

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Remember last year, we brought word of “Buko”, an XNA title that Microsoft were quietly showing off which sounded suspiciously like LittleBigPlanet? Well it’s not quiet anymore, they just showed it during the CES keynote. More »