Microsoft Research, its Developer Experience team and its Applications and Services Group are all building out pieces of the company's evolving bot platform. Here's what's under the hood.

Shiver Entertainment, a mobile game studio headed by former Zynga executive John Schappert, is unveiling a real-time strategy mobile game called Beasts vs. Bots today.

We find the programming challenge of game-playing bots to be fascinating. Take a look at this Python bot which plays Burrito Bison all the way through (video after the break). This is a totally ...