Kodu lets kids program their own videogames. It's a visual programming language, meaning you never have to see or type any explicit coding syntax.

“Since ‘Kodu's’ interface is intuitive and prevents common programming mistakes, we’re making it easy for everyone to enjoy the magic of game creation.” ...

What are kids who play with Kodu actually learning? While Logo puts code in the foreground, Kodu deliberately keeps out any mention of variables, functions, recursion, or any other programming argot.

“Our society thinks of computer programming as lucrative, therefore it must be hard and dull,” says the leader of the Kodu project, Matt MacLaurin. He says software development should be like ...

Microsoft Studios manager Michael Saxs Persson tells Joystiq that Project Spark is a natural evolution of the programming language found in Kodu Game Lab, the game building software released on ...

The thing is, says Kodu program leader and lead designer Matt MacLaurin, they all provide very different results to what kids are used to seeing on consoles.

The club started last spring at Explorer Elementary School as a pilot program through Microsoft.

Today at CES 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Kodu, an upcoming XNA title that functions more like a tool than an actual video game. This isn't the first that we've seen of Kodu. Last year, Microsoft ...

Remember last year, we brought word of "Buko", an XNA title that Microsoft were quietly showing off which sounded suspiciously like LittleBigPlanet? Well it's not quiet anymore, they just showed ...