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Mike Zintel has some cool game screenshots of .NET apps running on the xbox. The platform product and tools were officially unveiled as “XNA Framework” at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this week. Rob Unoki posted some notes here and here about the conference. He’s been working on the product for the last while.

From the official product page at http://www.microsoft.com/xna:

The XNA Framework is an exciting new development and execution environment which will allow game developers to more easily create games which run on the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. It is being designed with a unified set of class libraries which will allow for maximal re-use of code and assets across target platforms. A custom version of the Common Language Runtime is being built to enable the execution of managed code on an Xbox 360, and at GDC the XNA team showcased some exciting demonstrations of games which were built on an early version of this technology.

Dev tools are available on the site.

I’m eager to hear whether the biz model will be any different.

Earlier post on this topic is here.