The beta is up for download.
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11670/XNA-Game-Studio-Express-Public-Beta-Released/
It's taking forever but I'm almost done installing it.
It includes a SpaceWar starter kit, but I'm so lost, I don't know how to try out the game to compare it to the code. There aren't any tutorials that I saw, but there is an extensive help section. I'm sure you could find tutorials online if you looked.
http://www.learnxna.com
http://www.xnaspot.com
http://www.letskilldave.com
It comes with a decent sized help (for a beta not for a MS product) and the space war demo.
Space War's comments are kind of weak, but it has a decent architecture which makes it easy to navigate. Note you need a 360 controller, unless you change it to keyboard. I'm planning on playing around and making a basic game this weekend, so I'll post it on the forums for you guys to look at if you want. It won't actually do anything but you can have something else to look at.
Overall XNA is laid out REALLY well. You can basically go in and create a game in < 1 hr if you really wanted to.
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