Announcing XNA Game Studio 2.0

Michael Klucher
Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform

Wow! It's hard to believe that a year ago on this blog we announced the first release of XNA Game Studio Express. Now, here we are again at Gamefest 2007 and, on behalf of the XNA Community Game Platform team, I am pleased to announce our next release: XNA Game Studio 2.0. Let's take a look at some of what's new in XNA Game Studio 2.0!

What’s New withXNA Game Studio?

• XNA Game Studio 2.0 works in all versions of Visual Studio 2005. This includes Standard and Professional, as well as many other specific editions.

• The new and improved interface makes it easier for you to manage your Xbox 360 console.

• You’ll find that managing and building content is easier and more consistent in XNA Game Studio.

• We’ve included project templates for content importers and processors.

• You can configure how content is processed with the new ability to set parameters on Content Processors.

What’s new in theXNA Framework? Now you can:

• Create rich multiplayer games over Xbox LIVE using the new networking APIs.

• Create Audio more effectively with the new XACT editor!

• Host XNA Framework games easily inside a Windows Form.

• Use the virtualized GraphicsDevice: no more special code to handle device reset and recreate!

• Take advantage of render targets that are more flexible, consistent, and easier to use. Xbox 360 and Windows now support multiple render targets (MRTs) as well.

• Easily nest one component inside another thanks to improvements in GameComponent.

• Enjoy many more enhancements and tweaks!

Most of our development on this version has been in response to your feedback. What you see here only scratches the surface of everything new in XNA Game Studio 2.0. As we near the release of XNA Game Studio coming late 2007, we'll have more information.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Wow, having those features will be really great. Thanks a lot!

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Under hösten/vintern är det alltså tänkt att version 2.0 av XNA Game Studio kommer att släppas, observera

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  We all knew this was coming but here's the official announcement . You can also watch a live broadcast

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Under hösten/vintern är det alltså tänkt att version 2.0 av XNA Game Studio kommer att släppas, observera

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Is there a link I can't see to the bits?

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Thanks for listening to all of the input! Finally we will have support for Visual Studio! Can't wait to see what features are in store.

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Yeah! looking forward to using it with orcas :-)

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Yeah! looking forward to using it with Visual Studio :-)

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  slash that last comment :-P I didn't mean orcas, meant 2k5 ... am just playing around with orcas now in the day job

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  como mucha gente ya va ha hablar sobre xna 2.0 (kartones y morpheo seguro) pues yo paso y os cuento algo

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Will multiplayer apis be free for Xbox 360?? :)

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Michael Klucher has just announced XNA Studio 2.0 detailing some of the enhancements coming in the XNA

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Michael Klucher has just announced XNA Studio 2.0 detailing some of the enhancements coming in the XNA

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Well last night the Microsoft Guys finally announced the XNA Game Studio 2.0 System and the good news

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Microsoft XNA Game Studio, the user-creation tool that allows you to make Xbox Live Arcade-quality games

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Soo much to talk about...check out the winners of the Dream-Build-Play contest (not one, but FOUR winners

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Any plans for XNA Studio 2.0 to support Visual Studio 2008??

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Microsoft XNA Game Studio, the user-creation tool that allows you to make Xbox Live Arcade-quality games

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Well, Gamefest started today, and with that our team blog posted a new announcement . Exciting stuff!

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Publicados dos parches ( este y este otro ) para Windows Vista que mejoran la compatibilidad y el rendimiento

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Please add occlusion query to new version.

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Yesterday at the XNA Gamerfest 2007 Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio 2.0, an upgrade for the current

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Yesterday at the XNA Gamerfest 2007 Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio 2.0, an upgrade for the current

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  Ein Jahr ist es nun her, seit die erste Version von XNA vorgestellt wurde. Pünktlich zum Geburtstag und dem damit verbundenen Gamefest 2007 kündigte Microsoft nun XNA Game Studio 2.0 an. Die wohl größte Verbesserung: es funktioniert mit allen Versionen

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2007
  When Orcas comes out, I take it that XNAGS 2.0 will be updated to run it too?

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  Many of you have come to know and love XNA, the programming language for the Xbox and the PC. Since the

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  Woo! It works with proper versions of VS now! http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2007/08/13/announcing

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  Fantastic, this sounds like a great improvement to the framework.

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  Check out the details of what's coming in the XNA Game Studio v2.0 and the updated XNA Framework to be released later this year: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2007/08/13/announcing-xna-game-studio-2-0.aspx...

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  At XNA Gamefest conference, they announced the winners to Dream Build Play . There actually were two

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  At XNA Gamefest conference, they announced the winners to Dream Build Play . There actually were two

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  GameFest 2007でXNA Game Studio 2.0のアナウンスがありました。 XNAチームブログ に詳細がありますが、ここでは個人的な意見(つっこみ？)を交えて説明してみたいと思います。

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
  Microsoft ha anunciado que sus conjunto de aplicaciones de XNA Game Studio se fusionarán en un único

• Anonymous
  August 15, 2007
  Alors que Joe Wilson vient de révéler à la presse qu'une catégorie Game Development axée sur XNA devrait

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
  Are the queries included this time?

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2007
  In my travels to various universities, a few people (students and academics alike) have commented on

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2007
  Is the networking support limited to Xbox Live only? ie. can we access non-Xbox Live resources? can we host servers? Also, is there support for accessing the DVD drive? Great work :-)

• Anonymous
  August 24, 2007
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  August 24, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 05, 2007
  Hey Everyone, Let me answer some of the questions that are in the comments: swildermuth: This is just an announcement, we’ll post as soon as it’s available! Morpheo17: We’ll have more detailed information on how that works soon, just like playing games you will need an Xbox LIVE Gold membership to use the servers (System Link is free) Xiaoth: Not currently, Visual Studio 2008 is not a released product yet so there is no immediate plans to support it. Xadja, Lmid: Occlusion query’s are now part of the XNA Framework in XNA Game Studio 2.0 Jonesy: Yes, Networking is through Xbox LIVE only. You still have the ability to use System.Net for other applications on Windows. No support for the DVD drive, what are you looking to do?

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  September 06, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 11, 2007
  OK, so I'm a little late to the game on this one : Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2007
  Any plans to extend the 2GB limit? We're currently planning out a title with lots of polys, artworks and cutscenes. Hence the size limit does not come in handy. ;)

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2007
  Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform While we're still hard at work on XNA Game

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  September 27, 2007
  Michael Klucher Program Manager - XNA Community Game Platform While we're still hard at work on XNA

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2007
  Yep, you heard it right. I currently don't have a playable Xbox 360. (Actually that statement is

• Anonymous
  October 01, 2007
  While we've already fixed this issue in the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 I wanted to let you know about

• Anonymous
  October 01, 2007
  Recently, I started in a new role here at Microsoft - I have moved to the XNA Community Gaming Platform

• Anonymous
  October 13, 2007
  XNA Game Studio 2.0 vil komme på slutten av året. Her er en forsmak på noe av den nye funksjonaliteten

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2007
  My new team is using WiX v3.0 to create the MSI-based setups for the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 product

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2007
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  October 31, 2007
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  October 31, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 31, 2007
  Hi everyone, We held our events at Gamecity Nottingham last week and were delighted by the enthusiasm

• Anonymous
  October 31, 2007
  Hi everyone, We held our events at Gamecity Nottingham last week and were delighted by the enthusiasm

• Anonymous
  November 06, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2007
  My project has two distinct parts; the web site backend and the game client. For the game client, I use

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2007
  Announced just yesterday , XNA Game Studio 2.0 is soon to be released. This will be a lot of fun, especially

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2007
  I noticed an item on the XNA team blog that was posted today, and I wanted to link to it here as well.

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2007
  Yesterday the XNA team announced the impending release of XNA V2 beta to the public. They have confirmed

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2007
  刚从XNA 小组的博客中得知，在XNA Game Studio 2.0 正式版发布之前，XNA小组将会放出一个 XNA Game Studio Beta 版本

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2007
  This week is a really busy week so far. A lot of new stuff to play with is coming out right now. Today the XNA team has

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
  I know I've mentioned before that Xbox game development interests me. So they're doing a new console

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 09, 2008
  Well last night the Microsoft Guys finally announced the XNA Game Studio 2.0 System and the good news for those who didn't want to install the Visual Studio Express System... You will now find that the XNA Game Studio 2.0 system will be supported

• Anonymous
  May 12, 2008
  Nueva versión de XNA game studio 2.0. Nuestro compañero Miguel LLopis nos cuenta, que no se podra utilizar

• Anonymous
  August 31, 2008
  Hi everyone, We held our events at Gamecity Nottingham last week and were delighted by the enthusiasm

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2008
  It's too bad they didn't add in support for DVD drive access.  I would love to see that ability added in so someone could develop a DVD filter package similar to ClearPlay DVD players.  That would go hand in hand with the Xbox family controls.

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