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Is there a story behind these? Like how long they took to make or what kind of system resources they require?

They scream XBLA to me!

Indeed they do.

wow alot better lokking from PGR3.
what the hell this goin to show?

where is crash demo 3 ?

or the rest of awasome demo that showin in the first demos of XNA.

is that the street game from shen mue?

Sorry, i know i will make a fool of myself, but what are XBLA and XNA standing for?

XBLA = ? (XBoxLiveArcade?)
XNA = ?

XNA = Xbox/DirectX New generation Architecture

XNA is a development tool that is supposed to help developers "convert" their games faster for the XBOX 360 and for the PC.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the Mahjong game is was originally a game for a mobile device (cellphone?) and they used XNA to easily convert it to the XBOX 360.

XNA is not just a tool to make ports, I believe it can be used concurrently in developing titles for the XBOX 360 and the PC. This is very good news for western developers like Ubisoft, ID and EA who also support the PC with their titles. It's suppose to cut down on their development time.

BLIMBLIM !!!

mms://a812.l1165445721.c11654.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/812/11654/v0001/reflector:45721

open media player, file, input url or something like that and u can watch a gamespot guy playing OBLIVION

but he is already at 10 hours from the 12 hours marathon

Sweet. I'm really hoping they do release a mahjongg game for XLA. Unlike card or board games, I can never find anyone to play mahjongg.

Thanks mate...

any vids of these in action?

Didn't a Mahjong game for the 360 come out for Japan recently?

Not this one. The game above is called "Pocket-Jongg".

Taken from the response of one of Microsoft's community reps
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=427627&...

"The Pocket-Jong demo (seen in the screenshots) was originally created in C# for Windows Mobile and through the XNA framework, the developers could port it to Windows or Xbox 360 by just recompiling the codebase (took less than a day)."

XNA Stands for Xbox Next-Generation Applications

I think the demos were showing off the XNA Framework, which is a (still Alpha) set of .NET libraries and runtime for developing titles that are compatible with both the Xbox 360 and PC. The development environment is an enhanced version of Visual Studio .NET 2005, with the addition of a custom build editor and the XNA tools like the asset explorer shown in the screenshots above.

The advantage of the framework is speed and stability. C# and .NET provide for a robust development platform which offers far less opportunity to muck things up than the traditional C++. Features such as automatic memory management are very useful.

My job is writing C# apps, so I'm excited about this. I hope Microsoft will give hobbyist programmers the opportunity to develop apps like those showcased in the demos, maybe with a cut-down version of XNA or something. Us mortals definitely can't afford a fully-fledged XNA subscription, plus the cost of a 360 dev kit ;)

That was freaking awesome!

the crash demo ended up being Full Auto.

Cool graphics does not a good game make. :)

XNA = Xbox/DirectX Next generation Architecture