Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Nintendo has announced Game Builder Garage, a new game development platform for aspiring programmers. The software uses a visual game programming language that lets players learn the basics of game ...

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 was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Giles Goddard, the co-programmer of the original Star Fox for the SNES has said he would like to work on a game in the series. Goddard went on to say that he wouldn’t not want to do a sequel “how the ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

"These are programming games in which you're presented with puzzles that you have to solve with programming commands, either in pure code or in a more conceptual way. Ultimately, you're using ...