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Microsoft Studios manager Michael Saxs Persson tells Joystiq that Project Spark is a natural evolution of the programming language found in Kodu Game Lab, the game building software released on Xbox ...

For a wannabe game developer, the path to becoming one is both harder, and easier, than it ever was. While the technological barrier to entry is higher than ever, programmes such as Microsoft’s XNA ...

The first computer program I ever wrote, in the second grade, was composed in pencil and ran on the platform known as my friend Nicholas. We were about to start learning Logo, the program that teaches ...

“Our society thinks of computer programming as lucrative, therefore it must be hard and dull,” says the leader of the Kodu project, Matt MacLaurin. He says software development should be like a fourth ...

During last night's CES 09 keynote, Microsoft’s president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Robbie Bach, unveiled a new Community game entitled Kodu. The official blurb reads: "Kodu" is a ...

Today at CES 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Kodu, an upcoming XNA title that functions more like a tool than an actual video game. This isn’t the first that we’ve seen of Kodu. Last year, Microsoft ...

KENTWOOD -- Anaya Powell focuses intently as she guides her computer character through a maze of obstacles, dodges flying saucers and avoids other nuisances trying to stop her from reaching the end of ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Remember last year, we brought word of "Buko", an XNA title that Microsoft were quietly showing off which sounded suspiciously like LittleBigPlanet?