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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, Nutting Associates released the world’s first mass-produced and commercially sold video game, Computer Space. It was the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell, a charismatic engineer with a ...

Fan fiction rarely makes a commercial splash, but an Iowa City video game developer is hoping to change that. Programmer Ryan HoltKamp is working on The 13th Doll, a game based on The 7th Guest, which ...

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

My first computer was an Apple IIe with 128KB of RAM, no hard drive, and a 5¼ inch floppy drive. One of the top educational games back then was Rocky’s Boots, an inventive game that taught the basics ...

TOKYO, JAPAN ---Rémi Coulom is sitting in a rolling desk chair, hunched over a battered Macbook laptop, hoping it will do something no machine has ever done. That may take another ten years or so, but ...

Every parent wonders what their child will be when they grow up. While it’s difficult to make predictions about what our kids will gravitate towards later in life, computer programmers are a special ...