Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie fixates on a fiendish roguelike with an outrageous mash of ideas; Matt ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

Antonia Haynes is a Game Rant writer who resides in a small seaside town in England where she has lived her whole life. Beginning her video game writing career in 2014, and having an avid love of ...

The key difference between Swing vs. JavaFX is that JavaFX is an actively maintained Java project that supports the development of modern, feature-rich GUI applications, while Swing is an older ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

Everyone has a favourite video game tutorial. Maybe it's the first hour of Fallout 3, which quite literally treats you as a baby, teaching you new mechanics at different stages of growth? Perhaps it's ...

Since the earliest days of gaming, music has helped create a sense of immersion and worldbuilding. From composer Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. theme, to the infectious earworm of Tetris’ “Korobeiniki ...

Sam has loved video games and writing for as long as they can remember. When they aren't gaming or writing, they can be found watching motorsports and ice hockey. Tutorials are often the least ...

Between work, sleep, errands, and other demands, the average gamer doesn’t have as many hours as they’d like for their hobby. When you finally get the time, there’s a nearly endless bounty available: ...

The online campaign virally promotes Sun's JavaFX by having players use the rich media software platform to solve a mystery Sun Microsystems is making a game out of promoting its JavaFX rich media ...