Game Design vs. Game Programming: High-level engines and advanced generative AI have democratized creation in 2026, essentially transforming "playing" into a type of "building." However, the ...

Puzzles are universal. Even from our youngest days, we love solving problems and even the most simplest of puzzles. This love grows as we do, and game developers have harnessed that into some truly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an MIT Senior Fellow & Lecturer, 5x-founder & VC investing in AI Here we are in a time when the world has discarded previous ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Organizers for the revamped GDC: Festival of Gaming have revealed the first round of programming they have for the upcoming event in March 2026. A good chunk of these center around specific steps made ...

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive on stage at The Game Awards 2025 (MICHAEL TRAN via Getty Images) This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, ...

My PCMag career began in 2013 as an intern. Now, I'm a senior writer, using the skills I acquired at Northwestern University to write about dating apps, meal kits, programming software, website ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

NBA announces multi-platform streaming offering and exclusive content on NBA starting Oct. 15, all accessible via the NBA App. Official release The Suns and Cavs will square off on New Year’s Day as ...

In this video our hacker [Inkbox] shows us how to create a computer game that runs directly on computer hardware, without an operating system! [Inkbox] briefly explains what BIOS is, then covers how ...