Dave Plummer’s confession that the worst bug he ever shipped was tied to the beloved Windows pack‑in game Pinball is more than a nostalgic anecdote — it’s a compact lesson in resource management, legacy code risk, and the kind of tiny design decisions that can balloon into systemic problems as...
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Microsoft is setting its sights on a recruitment-driven revolution as it expands Copilot’s remit beyond traditional productivity tools to venture into the vibrant realm of 3D game development. A recent blog post on Igeekphone highlighted that Microsoft is actively scouting for talent through a...
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Today at GDC we announced the launch of Xbox Live Creators Program, starting with an Insider Preview that gives any developer the opportunity to publish Xbox Live-enabled games on Windows 10 PCs along with Xbox One consoles.
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Over the next few months, we will feature game creators who are making games using the Unity game development platform. We’ve partnered with the Made with Unity program to showcase some of the amazing, talented game developers out there and how they use Surface to make their games come to life...
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Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
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Telltale Games has established itself as the master of the episodic adventure game with hits like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands and, most recently, Link Removed. These storytelling-centered games, in which player choices have...
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Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
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I've received a number of emails and comments about Unity, mostly "How do I get started..."
For those looking to get started, today is your day! Vahe Karamian recently published a great 10+1 series of posts on learning Unity 3D.
UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction
Introduction
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A couple of months back, we Link Removed that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js Link Removed one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Link Removed on UserVoice since we launched it Link Removed. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider...
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Developing games in Visual Studio 2015 will be easier than ever! Soma announced last week that Microsoft and the Visual Studio team is working very closely three gaming engine developers, so closely that in the future there will be "co-installation" of these engines baked in. As someone who...
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Today we've got two posts about the new Unity 5 and the Kinect for Windows v2 and how, "it just works"... (I love those words ;)
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During Global Developer Conference there were many announcements like Unity 5 availability for free. Of course, Unity has been offering a free version...
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ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project lets you create new art & audio and edit some XML files to bring it all together into a polished game without...
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Expected for a late 2011 or early 2012 release
A number of sources, including Wedbush industry analyst Michael Pachter, are expecting the new chapter in the Grand Theft Auto franchise to arrive late 2011 or an early 2012 release. Our industry sources...
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First off, it's aimed at the 6900 series cards but runs fine on the 5800 too since there's not any major chipset difference except a few scaling and speed tweaks really, must say though for the 655mb size I was completely unimpressed with it, most of the old demos...
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