Looking to boost Visual Studio’s capabilities for game builders, Microsoft is acquiring SyntaxTree, creator of a widely used Visual Studio plug-in for debugging games that run on the popular Unity ...

How much of your time do you spend writing code? How much of your time you spend fixing code? Which would you rather be doing? This is a no-brainer, right? As you set out to develop a game, having a ...

I am making a casual game in Unity.This time, it is a story about how I decided to temporarily slow down the entire game for debugging purposes.I am leaving this as a note for myself.The problem I ...

When you're making a huge game like Skyrim, some bugs are going to slip through the cracks. Talking to Jason Schreier on Kotaku's Splitscreen podcast, Skyrim's lead programmer Brett Douville talks ...

When it comes to modern games, debugging tools are a necessity as developers attempt to test certain aspects of their game, try out new functionality before it goes live for gamers, and fix any ...

In another bid to entice developers to build for Windows, Microsoft is releasing new tools designed to make testing PC games across Windows-powered handhelds and desktops far easier. The tools aim to ...

Three New NVIDIA Tools Help Developers Quickly Debug and Speed Up Video Games PerfHUD 6, FX Composer 2.5, and Shader Debugger Help Simplify Game Development SANTA CLARA, CA—JULY 17, 2008—Today’s top ...

Before discussing the tools you do not have by default, it seems prudent to list out the ones you will generally have available in most modern development tool chains. Console output via printf(...).