Adventures in XNA 5: The Sharing of Games is About to Begin

An imminent update to the XNA Framework will allow for sharing of packaged XNA Game Studio Express Games.

Developers will be able to package their binary games into a single file to share with other users of XNA Game Studio Express.  These files can be emailed or hosted on websites like any other files.  To run a game, you just double click a file and it will unpack to your Windows-based PC or Xbox 360 console.

Now XNA can really enable the "YouTube of Games."

Check out the other announced features in the upcoming XNA update in the XNA Team blog.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 20, 2007
  But YouTube runs on Macs, Linux, and the wii.  Granted, I threw in the last two in desperation, there's no big draw there yet.  But ignoring the alpha-geek Mac crowd seems like a mistake.

• Anonymous
  March 20, 2007
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• Anonymous
  March 20, 2007
  Hopefully we will start seeing more games being published with the new delivery system :)