The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the ...

It takes a great number of individuals working together in various disciplines to make any commercial enterprise function. The mobile games industry is certainly no exception, offering dynamic and ...

Our sister site Engadget has a fun interview with a programmer who is currently porting live action video game Night Trap to the browser using HTML5. Why? Because Night Trap, one of the first video ...

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

The winner of the National Atari 2600 Space Invaders Championship among countless other professional game dev accomplishments ...

Mark Szymczyk wants you to program games for the Mac. For that matter, so do I! Now available on Amazon.com, Mark's book "Mac Game Programming" is a step in the right direction for small developers ...

I don’t know anything about coding. There’s zero chance I would be able to upload an entire film onto old video game cartridges. But I’m an expert in spite, the world’s most satisfying reason to do ...