The “Break it Down” Blog

Make Your Own Game with Game Kodu

At CES yesterday during the Microsoft Keynote Robbie Bach  showed off the new game building engine that will be released for The XNA Community Games later in 2009. It’s called Kodu and it allows anyone to pick up a 360 controller and make their own game.  It reminds me how the described LittleBigPlanet before it [...]

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New Xbox Live Marketplace Releases

This week brought quite a few new games to the Xbox Live Marketplace. On Xbox Live Arcade PowerUp Forever and Meteos Wars both released Wednesday for $10 (800 Microsoft Points).  Bomber Boing and Retro One released on Xbox Live’s Community Games for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) and Couples Sudoku released for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points).   Additionally, [...]

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XNA Community Games Off to a Huge Start

On Wednesday this week, November 19th, XNA Community Games launched on the Xbox 360 with the new dashboard updated – The New Xbox Experience. Just three days after launch there are already 45 games available in Xbox Live’s XNA Community Games (ranging in price from $2.50 to $10), and that number continues to grow daily. Sure, [...]

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