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Xbox Live Community Games Given New Name

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By Alex Wiltshire

June 12, 2009

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In news about the latest version of XNA Game Studio, Microsoft announced that it is to change the name of Community Games, its XNA-based amateur games creation platform, to Xbox Live Indie Games.

“We believe this name better represents the independent spirit of XNA Game Studio gaming and creations!” Microsoft’s statement says, after explaining that it wanted to announce the news first to XNA games creators. “With your help hopefully this name change (along with other new features such as User Ratings!) will increase understanding and discoverability of your games!”

The team aims to officially reveal the name change to the public in July. We’ve contacted Microsoft for more insight into the move – while we wait for a response, why not read our extensive overview of Community Games’ first six months?

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On June 12th grognard66 said:

It's going to take more than a name change to improve things. MS really should make a larger effort to advertise these games. I do hope that the announced community rating system helps out though, as this will make it easier for consumers to sort the good from the bad.

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On June 12th Mystakill said:

Actually, Community Games' biggest problems are the absolute lack of quality control and piss-poor network/dashboard performance. Anybody can post any piece of dreck, clone, controller vibrator that they want. The few good titles tend to get lost in the weeds. Finding them is painful because the network/dashboard is sooooooo slooooooow. It's gotten to the point that I rarely look at Community Games any more.

Community games prices seem to have gone up a bit recently, as I've been surprised to see some sub-par offerings with unjustifiable 400 & 800 price-points.

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On June 12th Indrema said:

Wasn't the problem with Community Games the lack of visibility? If you can't find it on the dashboard, it could be called anything & it wouldn't help.

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On June 12th StealthBadger said:

What's that new MS game making game thingy called? Kodu or something? Not sure. Anyway, I read on kotaku that you will be able to put games made using that up on the indie games thing. I dunno whether that will involve a vetting process by some microsoft chaps. I assume so. I dunno whether you'll be able to sell them there or just give them away, either. Still, I think it's pretty cool, and I wish sony would do something similar, as I haven't taken my xbox online!

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On June 12th DubsTF said:

I LOLed.