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Thursday, June 26, 2008

XBLA: Wired's Game|Life Check Out The XNA Creators Club

jellycarwired.jpgWired.com's own Chris "Kobun Heat" Kohler had a chance to look at the XNA Creators Club on Xbox Live Arcade - the club where people can upload and share their games to those currently in the community.

Right now it's only for those who pay the $100 a year fee, but soon - possibly at E3 - it'll be opened to the public and allow anyone to view some of these projects.

Chris looks at several games, including the previously shown Jellycar and Little Gamers, as well as many others. He's a little unsure at just how well it will take off though:

"The system is proving to be of dubious merit. On the one hand, recruiting subscribers as crash-testers is a good way to crowd source bugs out of existence. On the other hand, recruiting them as amateur intellectual-property lawyers is an excellent way to let copyright-protected content slip through. One game, BlockBuster, ganks an introductory screen right out of the Atari 2600 version of Breakout."

Check out the full story below.

Source: Hands-On: User-Gen Xbox Games Are Rough But Promising

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