Aiming to build the number of homegrown games available on Xbox 360, Microsoft announced earlier this week it will soon start letting Xbox LIVE members play, rate and share games created by the community. According to Microsoft, by the end of 2008, people who have the Xbox will have access to more than 1,000 games. Microsoft will start offering its XNA Game Studio 2.0 development tool kit, which lets people develop software games, for free. While anybody can do it, you’ll need to know how to write software code. The games can be written in Microsoft Word and then migrated to Xbox.

Source: Fox Business