Support for XNA in WP8?

Question

After watching a little bit of the summit keynote I kind of heard conflicting reports about it, but is it official that XNA is being dropped for WP8? I'm guessing since the future version of WP supports previous generation of apps that this is probably not true.

If it is though is using C# even an option for games or is C++ with DirectX the only way to go?

Answer 1

the official wp7dev twitter account had this to say too

"XNA Framework apps are fully supported in WP8. The new WP SDK will support building XNA Framework games for both WP7.x & for WP8" https://twitter.com/wp7dev/status/215513026374270977

Personally given the lack of XNA updates or information and the lack of any Metro support on windows 8 I'm staying a little skeptical until I see an SDK and the publishing rules.