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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

XBLA: New Xbox Experience - Check Out How Community Games Work

Joystiq, much like a lot of the press, got the chance to install the New Xbox Experience, and they've uploaded a ton of new videos detailing all the new features that are available.

One such ability is the chance to check out the Community games. Right now we cannot access them, but they can, with three games currently available: Culture, Net Rumble 3.0, and Netters.

We've seen Culture before in the XNA demo program, and the fellow previewing the update couldn't figure out what Netters was (giant online board of letters?), but Net Rumble 3.0 looks fairly interesting - a simple Subspace multiplayer games allowing up to 16 players.

The most interesting bit was that Net Rumble 3.0 is available for only 50 Microsoft points. That's 62 American cents. Originally Microsoft announced that games could cost 200 (which is what Culture costs here), 400 or 800 in the XNA community. Perhaps this has now changed to reflect the kinds of games that may become available?

There is an XNA event in the next day or so. Let's hope we learn more then.

Comments

I think I do remember talk that these XNA Community games would be going for the 50-200 MS point range.

I do believe these XNA CC games are missing things like leaderboards and achievements, so charging a bit less makes sense to me if that is the case.

I suppose that the 70/30 favouring developers apply to these games (and no longer XBLA games), if anyone could confirm this, I'd appreciate it.

-FightyF

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