XNA Game Studio Express out today

Beta 1 of Microsoft’s free XNA Game Studio Express product should be available for download later today.

If you haven’t already got started you’ll need to download the following bits first:

Visual Studio C# Express (Visual Studio 2005 works for compilation but some of the plug-ins etc. aren’t yet working with it)
Direct X SDK (August 2006)
XInput Driver for Microsoft Common Controller (wired controllers only, not wireless+cable)

Then sign up for the beta and come hang out in the IRC channel #xna on irc.quakenet.org.

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[)amien