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MS expands Community Games into new regions

by Dustin Burg on Nov 25th 2008 11:30AM

Today, Microsoft announced that they've expanded their Community Games initiative into new regions, thus growing the amount of developer participants.

Singapore, Australia and New Zealand have just been added to the list of regions that can produce and participate in the Xbox Live Community Games program and create games like these. On top of the three new region additions, the Community Games program is available in:

United States
Canada
England
France
Italy
Spain
Nordic Regions

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Tags: community-games, xbla, xbox-live, xna

Reader Comments (26)

"England" should read United Kingdom as it is also available in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

I was about to post, "Now the UK guys can stop complaining!!" And then I saw this reply and the one after it...

I don't get it. I don't go to UK based websites and bitch about how they're UK centric and don't think about the US enough. I'm waiting for these guys to start complaining about how we don't use the Queen's English...colour versus colour.

Just get over it. Stop worrying about this stuff.

I am not complaining about the lack of concern for UK visitors I am complaining that just because it's the biggest of the four countries England is seen as just another name for the UK. I'm not English damnit!

I do take your point though that moaning about it can become tiresome but I assure you I really likely never care how you spell colour

It has been available in the UK since it first came out.

Brian, that's not the point.

Scots, Welshmen and Northern Irishmen tend not to like being called English or having their respective country/state (whatever they technically are) called England.

Mr Muggs, this is similar to how it would be if they didn't list Canada and just had United States listed.

It would be akin to me saying: "California! That's in New York right?"

No, they are 2 completely separate states that make up part of the US.

England is one of 4 countries that make up the UK. And anyone who's not English despises being called English, believe me (Proud Welshman). Same goes for UK = England.

UK plz.

Scotland has it too..

Why not fix the damm dash board form been bug'd, lagy, and the freezing in games. Instead of adding more to it

Um, what?

I do not have such issues with my NXE.

serious your lucky then me and my mates are starting to hate how buggy it is.

Lag
Freeze's
Crashing/ in game lag
The day the earth stood still Keeps stopping and starting............ i Have a 20Mb broadband Connection so no issues there
i would call it a release its a alpha stage demo

It's a bit like saying California instead of the US seeing as California is the only important part of America.

oklahoma is the most important state.

UK not england please, we are a united country of different peoples or are you just trying to be ignorant?

As has been previously said, the UK is Northern Ireland (the best), England, Wales and Scotland. grouping us all as "England" is offensive to all of us, probably the english too!

they get the point, every single comment doesn't need to be about the geographical error.

no they don't as they ain't changed it yet!

I think it should untile the site changes it to be a proper journalistic article with accurate information. Calling the UK England is quite a big mistake!

Ok, to be far the original press release mentions England so the reporting is accurate so I've emailed Microsoft using the link on the page and I suggest everyone else does the same.

This might seem petty but it not only inaccurate it's shoddy journalism from two organisations that should now the difference.

Cool. I can't wait to see more of these XNA games :D but sadly I'll probably never be able to download them as south africa is still waiting for xbox live :'(

omg what the hell! where is ireland on that list! i have been waiing for community games for ages plz microsoft expand that list!

It's SCOTLAND aswell (or United Kingdom). Not just England. Calling the UK England is just ignorant!!!!

I demand it be changed!

Finally, New Zealand gets in on the fun!

I'm American, and I get bugged when people get mad about petty spellling differences, but I'll join in on the fun and say that it's the UK, not England.

Shame to you Micro$oft, you sell to the Greek people the xbox 360 consoles in higher prices than the rest of the world, but you don't offer us a server for entering the xbox live.SHAME ON YOU...

What do they mean with Nordic Regions?

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