Tips for making enterprise apps more fun -- and functional.

The game-oriented career site lets developers and engineers test their skills against each other.

With Microsoft's Kinect SDK, developers can now use the natural UI for more than just games.

Use OpenSocial and the Google Application Engine to take your Flash game to the next level.

The Game Developer's Conference is a new world for a developer used to .NET conferences.

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell talk with Frank Savage about his work in gaming software in general, and the XNA Game Studio in particular.

How far can XNA take you in game development? Find out what seven experts in the game development industry have to say.

Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express gives you powerful game tools, and the ability to create games for both Windows and Xbox 360.

If you have ever dreamed about building a castle, now's your chance. Learn to manipulate Second Life graphics primitives, and the only limit is your imagination.

If you learned programming in your first life, you can now exercise your skills in Second Life, using Linden Scripting Language to activate objects you build in the popular simulation.

Stored procedures can be an effective way to handle conflicting needs, but it's not always so obvious how to write them so they both perform well and scale.

XNA Game Studio Express offers .NET developers a free tool for developing games that run on both Windows and Xbox 360. But don't get too excited...this product has serious deployment restrictions.

Not only can you generate your own Sudoku puzzles with this mobile application, but you can solve them, too—even puzzles you enter from newspapers or books.

While the XMLHttpRequest object and AJAX can provide huge user and developer benefits, there are some issues you probably haven't thought about yet—but it's time everyone did.

Game developers have been using MIDP since its inception, but it was only with the release of MIDP 2.0 that this platform included tools specifically made for game development. Learn how these five new classes can help you create richer, more smoothly-animated graphics.

Some fundamental principles apply to game programming regardless of the language you use to create the game. These principles include gathering input from users, processing game data, and rendering game objects to the screen. This article shows you how to use JavaScript to program a simple game.

Are you game? AMD64 certainly is -- a 64-bit system blows the socks off a traditional 32-bit x86 platform. This great presentation by AMD, downloadable as a PDF file, explains the foundation of the AMD64 platform -- and then discusses what the memory space, ability to run 32-bit and 64-bit code, and extra SSE registers can mean for game developers. Click the link below to begin!