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Microsoft Introduces Popfly For Games (In Silverlight) (TechCrunch). I like Silverlight -- on a purely theoretical level, as I have yet to see anything truly impressive built with it (to be fair, I have a similar stance towards Flash, at least when it comes to multimedia applications aka games as opposed to animated banners/corporate websites/video players).

Easy-to-use game creation tools are great, and the more the merrier; but Popfly seems to be too focused on being a toybox for kids (as opposed to a proper game development environment) that I seriously doubt its capabilities.

Building things is fun; especially when it teaches you something. Why not learn some "real" programming while you're at it? I know I've been pimping it a lot lately, but it simply doesn't really get any cooler (or easier) than Ruby-based gosu. It's free (both as in beer and in speech), multi-platform (including Linux, if that matters), and teaches you a bit or two about how software and specifically games work.