As part of Gamefest 2007, Microsoft’s Game Technology Conference in Seattle, the XNA Team announced the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio 2.0, the next release of its cross-platform game development toolkit. Major changes include support for all versions of Visual C# and Xbox LIVE support.
Microsoft also announced the winners of its Dream-Build-Play contest in which developers compete for a chance have a Xbox Live™ Arcade Publishing Contract, win cash and machines worth nearly $20,000. Two teams tied for first and Microsoft is also extending a publishing contract to the two teams that tied for second.