XNA Game Studio Express is Microsoft’s game developer kit for homebrew and hobbyist developers and is available as a free download. Express includes a basic "starter kit" for rapid development of specific genres of games. It was released with a space shooter. In the future there will be kits for platform, real-time strategy, and first-person shooters.

Developers can create Windows games for free with the XNA Framework--a separate download. To run games on the Xbox 360 you will have to pay an annual fee of $99 for admission to the XNA "Creators Club". There is also a 4-month $49 subscription as well.

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