game development

Ralf Herbrich is a Director of Fuse Labs U.K. and one of the developers who helped build the Xbox Live Arcade game, "The Path of Go." The game was created using F# and to our knowledge is the only Xbox game ever written in the language. Link Removed Link Removed

Animating objects in your game requires setting them up right. In this video, David Thany walks you through creating a sprite strip that animates your player character. Watch, then follow along at Link Removed. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video each Monday for the next ten...

The Game Loop is the beating heart of your gameplay. In this video, Josh Foss and Elbert Perez dissect this critical component of game development. Watch, then code along with the tutorial at Link Removed. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video each Monday for the next ten weeks...

What’s a game made of? In this video, follow Josh Foss as he maps out a 2D shooter game design from start to finish in just four minutes. Watch, then code along with the tutorial at Link Removed. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video each Monday for the next ten weeks. If you...

Get ready to jump into games! Charles Cox outlines the game you’ll create, the platforms you can choose from, and the toolset you’ll use. Watch this video, then follow the tutorial at Link Removed. We will be featuring a new XNA Game Development video each Monday for the next ten weeks. If...

Atlanta, GA - It has always been impossible to define the realm known as The Plateau, and today it claims another universe as its own. The development team at Spoonjuice is proud to announce that the mind-bending puzzle game is now available for Windows 7 phones, expanding the game's reach to a...

Boris Jabes is fun guy to talk to about C++. He has the distinction of being the first guy to share the news about the removal of C++/CLI intellisense support in VC10. He also has a great perspective on why the decision was made and understands the complexity of intellisense projects and complex...

Bethesda have announced that they will release Prey 2, a sequel to 2006's Prey, next year for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The sequel to 2006's generally well-received Cherokee mythology-meets-alien abduction first-person shooter, Prey 2 will be developed by the same studio responsible...

The potential for a realtime movie maker "Sandbox for Cinema" with virtual acting using the new Crysis engine is looking extremely good, think of Garys mod on steriods.... Then just as that blow you away...watch the new Unreal 3 engine bladerunner inspired "Samaritan" demo running on 3x Nvidia...

Video games aren't known for their emotional depth. In recent years, games have gotten bigger, the graphics have gotten sharper, stories have gotten fancier and Hollywood actors have begun lending their voices to leading characters. But there has always been something missing -- despite all the...

Looks like us L4D fans will have something to look forward to in April: Link Removed due to 404 Error

Well, it's been almost 13 years since we have last seen Duke Nukem but he is finally hitting store shelves on May 3rd. I have a chat with Gearbox co-founder Brian Martel about what took so long, the technology behind the game and what we have to look forward to. Link Removed Link Removed

Did you ever want to write a game with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Ryan Plemons, Sr Developer with Terralever, shares his journey in optimizing the Silverlight based Zero Gravity game to work on Windows Phone 7. Ryan shares how he built the application using Isolated Storage, how he applied...

Sean McKenna and Talon Ireland came down to discuss a few things they learned from building Unite in Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. They go over: - Pros/cons of silverlight vs. xna for building simple games - Dealing with the back button and tombstoning in games Link...

When talking about developing applications for the new Windows Phone platform, we usually focus on Silverlight. There is, however, another programming model for developing Windows Phone applications, and that’s XNA—a special programming model based on .NET that is specifically designed for...

Jesse and Jon look at progress on the phone and look at a prototype for a Silverlight game. Link Removed Link Removed

Futuremark®, the developer of the world's mostpopular benchmarking software, today released a new trailer for 3DMark® 11, the latestversion of their industry standard benchmark for real-time 3D graphics. The "HighTemple" tech demo trailer shows advanced tessellation and lighting effects rendered...

Ever wanted to make your own game? XNA Game Studio enables game development for everyone on Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7. Join Shawn Hargreaves and Charles Cox as they dive into the world of Indie game development, and answer community questions about XNA Game Studio, the XNA Creators...

NVIDIA APEX PhysX Efficiency: CPU vs GPU Benchmark Reviews tests NVIDIA APEX PhysX efficiency using Mafia II - compares CPU vs GPU performance. According to the August 2010 Steam Link Removed - Not Found survey, PC gamers prefer NVIDIA GeForce desktop video cards nearly 80% more than AMD/ATI...

Link RemovedIt's a blast from the past this week as*Link Removed joins us in the Ping studio. Max may be a*Stanford scholar these days, but he still can't hide the fact that he's a 'Softie through and through. Here's the top news: Link Removed Link Removed Xbox LIVE and Windows Phone 7 Link...