XNA Game Studio Express released

Dec 12 17:56 UTC 2006

Yesterday Microsoft released v1.0 of XNA Game Studio Express, a free C# IDE
for developing apps using XNA, which is a framework that basically serves as
managed DirectX. It's aimed at hobbyists and students. The cool thing about
XNA is that it is supported in Windows XP and the XBox 360, which means you
can develop concurrently for XP and 360. Last night I had a sprite bouncing
around on my 360 after spending about 10 minutes coding and building a project
on my laptop. Very cool.  :)
To deploy to 360 requires a subsciption to the Creators Club, which kind of
sucks, but deploying to Windows is free.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/gse/