This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. A resourceful developer has built a browser-based online 3D game that is entirely rendered in text — and it also has a multiplayer mode. Yes, you heard ...

It’s hard to get kids to code. Up until very recently, it was largely inaccessible, with little curricula in place and few teachers qualified to teach it. And even today, with all the progress we’ve ...

On its blog today, Google talked up Game Builder, its sandbox for desktops that lets you create 3D games without having to write any code (though you can if you want to). It’s available now on Steam, ...

Dhara Singh is one of CNET's summer interns and a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She loves digging deep into the social issues that arise from everyday technology. Aside from ...

It will make it easy to build new game environments on the platform, even if you don’t have any design skills. Roblox plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D scenes ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

If you look hard enough, most of the projects we feature on these pages have some practical value. They may seem frivolous, but there’s usually something that compelled the hacker to commit time and ...