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Before you ask a question in this FAQ please read When will XNA Game Studio support my feature FAQ for all the likely answers.
When?
May 7th 2008: CTP has been released - Zune support and some other 3.0 changes. No Xbox 360 support. No Zune deployment on x64
May 23rd 2008: Beta of Community Games released. PAID Creators club membership required (No Dreamspark or DreamBuildPlay memberships). US Xbox required to play final games FOR BETA ONLY!
Final Release Holiday 2008
Will my 2.0 code still work?
Full releases like 2.0 and 3.0 do not guarantee 100% backwards compatibility though Microsoft try to minimize changes. For refresh releases (like 1.0 refresh) binary compatibility was maintained. For the 3.0 CTP there appeared to be no breaking changes, however this release was targeting the Zune for the majority of new features so this should not be indicative of the final release. Wait for the beta(s?) and we will update this section.
What will be included?
What is NOT included?
Is that it?
Well at the same time the Xbox Live Community games will go live - you can read about it more in the Xbox Live Community Games FAQ
Will {my bug/feature} be included
Please bear in mind that the GS team probably had at least 5 times the amount of feature requests than they were able to get in so not everything requested in connect will be there. See the connect FAQ
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