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    It was originally announced that the next version of Visual Studio Express would only be able to develop Metro applications, meaning developers writing traditional desktop, services or console code would have to buy the full Visual Studio.  This was a pretty serious blow to not only poor indie developers but also various open […]

  As I have been working with Cocos2D-html ( and PlayStation GameEngine2D which is based on cocos2D ) lately, I decided to take a look at what the cocos2D book situation was like.  While about half as large as my Unity 3D book round-up there is still a nice, growing collection of cocos2D related books. […]

  Just a quick note to say I’ve organized my recent Cocos2D posts into a traditional tutorial series, like this site’s C++ and PlayStation Mobile tutorials.  You can now access them from the right hand navigation list, or by clicking here.    Right now we are at 3 tutorials, plus one related post.  More tutorials […]

  After spending so many years as a Windows/Visual Studio developer, Intellisense is a simple must have in my arsenal.  In fact, I believe my repeated use of Intellisense actually severed the part of my brain that remembers functions and variables!   As I’ve been doing a lot of JavaScript development recently ( between Node.js […]

  I can always tell when Diablo 3 servers are being patched as I get an influx of visitors viewing this page.  I wrote that when I was experiencing crashes when they last patched the Diablo 3 servers.  It would appear the server patch crashes are still occurring.   To people having this problem, this […]

  As was just announced at E3, Sony has rebranded PlayStation Suite to PlayStation.mobile.    All of our existing tutorials will will still work exactly the same, and I will rebrand them as I come to them. I aim to make this site “the site” for all your PlayStation Mobile programming needs.   Code wise, […]

  At E3, Sony announced that Sony PlayStation Suite would be rebranded as PlayStation mobile.  More importantly, they announced that HTC would be the first 3rd party Android manufacturer to release a PlayStation certified phone, but they never went into any details about what that phones would be supported.  It appeared to be an HTC […]

  As part of the same document that announced the PlayStation Mobile compatible phones from HTC, Sony also released a list of developers currently working on PlayStation Mobile content.  Give it a look and I believe that you will agree that it is fairly impressive:         List of Third Party Game Developers […]

  In this tutorial we are going to manually manage the game loop manually.  Additionally we are going to look at the various ways of handling input from the gamepad.  This tutorial builds on the code we developed in the previous tutorial.  As you may recall, we created a “Hello World” sprite and centered it […]