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Game Studio 2.0 and Creators Club FREE for college students!

Posted: February 20th, 2008 | Author: Justin Nolan | Filed under: Homebrew, News, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »

Remember all the hoopla about XNA and the Creators Club, which would let you build and deploy games directly to your 360 console? It sounded wonderful, but the $100 annual subscription was a gotcha for most who just wanted to tinker around. Not anymore. College students can now get a FREE 12 month subscription. Even if you’re not a developer, it may just be a free ticket to legal homebrew on the 360 :)

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To get your free swag, head here. If you’re school isn’t on the list, don’t fret. Visit this link to find out how to get verified (I did it, and it was a painless process).

Update: Since my college isn’t on the list, I followed the link to get verified. My enrollment was immediately verified, and I was emailed a link to the DreamSpark download site. From there, it was one button press and I was given an Xbox Live code to claim my 12-month Creators Club subscription. Couldn’t be any easier. I have the XNA Launcher installed (separate from the temporarily available Game Launcher which is free for all). I now have the ability to install games on my 360 directly from my computer. I plan on installing XNA Sharp NES, a NES emulator created with XNA. I will report back on how that goes. Legal 360 homebrew is here! (for the masses this time, without a $100 entry fee)

3 Comments on “Game Studio 2.0 and Creators Club FREE for college students!”

  1. 1 Tarun Kunwar said at 12:15 am on February 21st, 2008:

    believe it or not, but i’m going to give this shit a try… :l

  2. 2 Punkster812 said at 12:30 am on February 21st, 2008:

    When they first announced the XNA, I thought for sure it was going to be huge for developers like the Alien Hominid guys to release great games, then I read on and found out there was a fee and all my hopes and dreams for XNA were crushed.

    I hope they realize after this that it will be best to keep it free. Even though I am not a game developer, I am going to download it just to play with.

  3. 3 gamerawr! » How to download the XNA Community Games Trials said at 12:57 am on February 21st, 2008:

    [...] I urge all college students to cash in on the free XNA Creators Club subscription offering I recently posted about. The free 12-month subscription has a $100 value, and will let you get games RIGHT NOW for free. [...]

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