Unity, Unreal Engine 4, & Cocos2D will now ship with Visual Studio set as the default IDE, free to use

Recently Microsoft announced a new deal with these engine providers: Unity Technologies, Epic Games, and Chukong Technologies. When you go to install these engines now, Visual Studio will be the default IDE selected.The Community Edition is included, which is basically VS 2013 professional. If you are using Unity, we also have the free Visual Studio…

Professional Game Development Tools

This post is part of 3 week series giving current and aspiring game devs the tools, resources, and advice they need to get started building for Windows. We also have a great video course on game production basics at Microsoft Virtual Academy.   Visual Studio Community Edition  You need an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment,…