XNA Tutorials, Samples and Thoughts
Details about Community Games
Microsoft’s Dax Hawkins has an article up on Gamasutra, which contains lots of details about the process of submitting games for the upcoming Community Games. You can read about what content is acceptable, about the peer-review system, steps that need to be taken when preparing for submission, and what you need to do to download and play XNA games.
The article can be found here.
Have a nice read!
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