Microsoft has given some of its work to gamers, exploring their skills in developing games. At the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft announced a great deal for their Xbox 360 users by inviting them to develop games with the help of the company’s XNA Game Studio software, a program that facilitates game designing, development, and management.
The upcoming creators can also share their game titles with other gamers through online Xbox Live service that has over 10 million users.
John Schappert, a VP in Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment unit, expressed “Our goal is to drive a creative and social revolution in games with the same transformative power that we’ve seen in digital music and video sharing.”
At present, Microsoft offers Xbox 360 users an opportunity to share already present homespun games such Little Gamers, a 2-D, side-scrolling action game, that is developed by a 24-year-old Belgian software programmer, as well as a puzzle game Trilinea, created by a trio of Brazilian developers, and Rocket Ball that was built by a U.S. gamer, which features a street version of dodge ball.
Microsoft targets to achieve over 1,000 games to be launched for the console, later this year.
Besides, the company has also announced the price cut of Xbox 360 in the Canadian market. The Xbox 360 regular edition now costs C$349 from C$399, whereas the premium edition price would retail for C$449, dropping from C$499 and the arcade model is slated to be priced at $279 instead of C$299.
