Major Nelson brings us XNA Express

Think you've got the game programming skills? Then try XNA Express Beta.

While the Major's "maybe one day I'll be posting about the Xbox Live Arcade title that YOU have developed" comment may invigorate some motivated soul to invest a plethora of coding time, I'm doubtful of my own desire to actually do anything with this.

I'll download it anyway. It looks like GarageGames is lending their Torque X tools to help get you started as well. That's a plus.

Looks like you'll need to know C#. I unfortunately, learned worthless Java. Then again, C# shouldn't be that hard to get a hang of if I can get Visual Studio .NET.