Back when Game Builder Garage was announced, I was curious to see what Nintendo would come up with. Having had the game demoed to me, it looks like it will be a very handy learning tool for aspiring ...

Epic Games has acquired scripting tool maker Agog Labs for an undisclosed price. The deal — the second in a day for Epic — will add new tools talent and give developers a strong community-supported ...

My brother wants me to help his ~9yo son get into programming. After having struggled to teach my bro how to program in Objective-C over the last year so he can write iPhone apps, I'm thinking maybe ...

The video game industry is now bigger than it has ever been before, with more and more young people interested in developing their very own video games –- and rightly so. After all, game development ...

I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. At first, I thought "Halo as a shell script?", but then I came to my senses. Instead, ...

Although Linux receives a lot of praise as a rock-solid server and, recently, as an up-and-coming desktop, games have never been its strong suit. Sure, we all have our favorite diversions; I've spent ...