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Read More »Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program celebrates releasing 1000 games
Finding success with ID@Xbox
As ID@Xbox celebrates another successful year, we speak to European regional lead Agostino Simonetta about making developers’ lives easier and how to find your own success.
Read More »Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Indie Games store to close at the end of September
The service, which gave us many interesting titles, closes on September 29th but purchases can still be redownloaded in future
Read More »Interview: Creation @ Xbox
Sean Cleaver speaks to ID@XBOX director Chris Charla and regional lead Agostino Simonetta
Read More »ID@Xbox hits over a billion hours of play
Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program has come a long way since it first started in 2013. While the curated self-publishing program’s first titles included smaller indie games such as Drinkbox Studios’ Guacamelee and Nicalis’ 1001 Spikes, it’s now home to some of the biggest and most ambitious independently developed titles the industry’s …
Read More »Indies sing praises of Microsoft’s ID@Xbox programme
Independent developers have called Microsoft’s ID@Xbox programme hugely important” to the games industry, and have singled it out as one of the easiest digital publishing platforms to work on across all platform holders. Speaking to MCV at an ID@Xbox preview event this week, several developers were very warm in their …
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England put £250,000 in to UK Indie Development Fund
We speak to Creative England's Rob Crossley about the Greenshoots indie development project
Read More »ID@Xbox turns three: How has Microsoft’s indie revolution fared?
When it launched in August 2013, Microsoft’s ID@Xbox initiative marked a bold commitment to independent development by the platform holder. Three years on, what’s next for the programme?
Read More »New ID@XBox game I, Hope will donate all profits to cancer charities
Title is also designed to help entertain young patients during long hospital stays and difficult treatments
Read More »Toxic Games, Fallen Tree and Supergonk among this year’s Greenshoots inductees
Initiative run by Creative England and Microsoft awards British studios with Xbox One dev kits, inclusion in ID@Xbox and up to £50,000 in funding to build their IP
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