Though there’s an awful lot that goes into making a video game, from gameplay design, to AI programming, sound, scriptwriting and way beyond. But games are also a hugely visual medium, and they can ...

Welcome back to our Game of the Year picks for 2025 as we look to hand out our gong for Best Visual Design. Every year, this ends up being a heavily contested category, always swinging between games ...

Join Hour of AI during CS Ed Week 2025—get lessons and resources from Microsoft Education to spark curiosity and create AI learning experiences. For decades, education has focused on equipping ...

The final piece to the summer circuit puzzle has been pushed into its spot, and now it’s time to put up the evaluations. For the second time in my short career, and for the first time on the West ...

MonoGame is a simple and powerful .NET framework for creating games for desktop PCs, video game consoles, and mobile devices using the C# programming language. It has been successfully used to create ...

GitHub Copilot is a tool that allows you to write code partially and then have AI automatically complete the remaining parts. Developed by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI, it has been available as ...

Consumer-grade dev software helps turn your concepts into real products, with no previous coding experience required. Chase your game-making dreams with the top tools we've tested. My PCMag career ...

After a fan asked Elon Musk if he’d consider launching his own game studio, the entrepreneur tweeted that he’d be starting one through xAI. A social media user tweeted about the “manipulative bs” of ...

The code for my series of tutorials on how to make a real-time stategy (RTS) game in the well-know Unity game engine (with C# scripting)!

Microsoft’s November release of .NET 8 brought all kinds of great new features. One of the nice improvements introduced in ASP.NET Core 8 is IExceptionHandler, an ...