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Shoot 1UP Brings Manic Shmup Action To Xbox Live Indie Games

11:00AM December 12, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

Xbox 360 owners will get a rare opportunity to play a manic top-down shoot ‘em up next month with the release of Shoot 1UP, a shmup with all the bullet-hell trimmings mixed with a clever mechanic. More »


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Xbox Live Indie Games Open, Selling Games For $1

9:30PM July 24, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

Xbox Live’s Community Games venture has just been re-branded as “Xbox Live Indie Games”, and along with the new name comes a new pricing structure, which will see some titles sold for as little as $US1. More »


Kodu Game Lab Micro-Review: Baby’s First Game Development Kit

10:00AM July 11, 2009 | AJ Glasser

Who says you have to go to college for an expensive game developer’s education? Microsoft Research’s Kodu puts the power of a dev kit right in your hand for a mere $US5. More »


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Xbox Live Community Games Renamed

2:40AM June 12, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Buried in the official announcement of XNA Game Studio 3.1 is news that, come late July, Xbox Live Community Games would be getting a much-needed name change. More »


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XNA Creators Club Games Priced, Detailed

4:00AM July 23, 2008 | Mike Fahey

Back in February Xbox 360 gamers got a chance to try out some of the exciting homebrew games coming out of the XNA Code Creators Club, and this holiday season they’ll be able to buy them. Microsoft has dropped details about how pricing and payments will work for folks who have their games published via the new program, now called Xbox LIVE Community Games. Paying members of the Creators Club will be able to submit their games to the community for peer review, and if they deem it worthy they’ll be able to set a price and put it up for sale.

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