Microsoft Pulls Back the Magic Curtain (if you've got $99 to spare)

The interesting story floating around the video game world today is Microsoft’s announcement that they’re opening up their developers code for their Xbox to the general public and, starting in the next couple of months, anyone who has the know how and, well, time it takes to design and build a game, they can have at it. It’s called XNA and for $99 a year, people will have access to something like a club for people who are building their own stuff.