An interesting bit of XNA Game Studio news from the XBL launch in India last week.

Talking to us, Robbie and Mohit also spoke to us about developing games for Xbox LIVE Arcade and how they’re working with local game development companies to generate content via XNA.

So now that India has XBL that's a whole new sub continent of developers (yes I know lots of them were using 'other countries' live accounts before.

So lets hear from some of these local game development companies - I want to know what is happening in India with XNA Game Studio. I know little about the Indian game industry so feel free to educate me.

I'm also fascinated by this:

But the strangest announcement of the day seems to be the release of “educational content” on Xbox LIVE! Talking to the press, Microsoft announced that India will be the first country to see the release of education specific learning aids for grades 1-12

Now I have no reason to think that this is related to XNA Game Studio but what a perfect application for the technology. There is little educational content that needs the top end performance of a C++ application so XNA GS is perfect. Of course I can't find anyone at Microsoft to talk to about this (being an MVP does not always help!). So anyone who does know something drop me a line.