Look at this treat at the RakNet Forum:
Here you go...

Rak'Kar has combined serveral free projects, Ogre 3D 1.2.2 Dagon (p1), fmod 4.04.20, ois 0.7.2, RakNet 3.0 (clear ) - Thats really a great pice of source.

And he points on some tools to use with the engine.

That's a nice package for someone who knows how to program(beyond c-script) and doesn't want to hunt down all of these libraries and set it all up. It'll be even nicer if it is maintained.

I seriously doubt XNA will be a competitor for Gamestudio. Gamestudio mainly targets hobbists and small independent developers, and schools (at least that's how I see their market).

And XNA is basicly for companies and skilled developing teams.

I appreciate all of your feedback, but the truth is I feel that the XNA your talking about osnt the same XNA I saw been reported on the BBC program, "click online", and the target market stated in the program was hobbists and small independent developers. The XBox compatabitilty comes through a subscription service, where by all accounts they will convert the software for you... or something.

How old is your information, I saw this the day before the original posting. Anyway I hope im wrong... but what if im not?

Ah, nope, you must heard of sth else then I read.

Juset to add, if it is a case of developing tools for make the software more user friendly, then that is what is sounds like they have been doing.

Just an update on this, I have now checked it out and, it's quite dissapointing, They still have a lot of work to do on it, I got this from their website...

"XNA Game Studio Express enables individuals and small teams to more easily create video games using new, optimized cross-platform gaming libraries for Windows and Xbox 360. This beta release targets the development of games for Windows. The final version of XNA Game Studio Express will be available this holiday season and will enable development of games which target Windows and upon purchase of a XNA Creators Club subscription, the Xbox 360 as well.

While we’re very proud of this Beta milestone, it does not represent all of the great features we are enabling in XNA Game Studio Express which will be available in final release form by this holiday. Some of the key feature areas that were not able to make it into this beta include:
- The XNA Framework Content Pipeline feature is not present in this release of XNA Game Studio Express (Beta). It will be made available in a future beta release of XNA Game Studio Express
- Support for retail Xbox 360 game development. This feature will be made available upon final release of XNA Game Studio Express later this holiday
- Additional starter kits and tutorials will be made available upon final release of XNA Game Studio Express
"
food for thought?

Isn't a future version of A6/A7 going to be refitted to support the XNA framework? That's what jcl said, I think. So unless I've got it wrong, the XNA framework isn't a 'threat' to the acknex engine. Oh but I think you are talking about the 'XNA Game Studio Express', which must be a tool kit or something? If acknex supports XNA, who needs a toolkit?

If that were the case then wouldn't A6/A7 have to be ported to .net managed code?