Everyone has at least a few games on their computer, and I would assume most of the Hackaday readership would be among the enlightened PC gamer bretheren. At this year’s DEF CON, [Tamas Szakaly] gave ...

The winds of change are blowing swiftly across the lands of Middle-earth, as we've just gotten word that Turbine is going to allow the use of Lua scripting for Lord of the Rings Online. A Casual ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

Although the game engines Unity, Unreal Engine and, increasingly, Godot tend to dominate in the indie games space, they’re not the only options. And for artists who are looking to hop the fence and ...

The What Else: Widely-used in the AV and IT industries among major control system manufacturers, Lua scripting is a universal language that enables products from third-party vendors to communicate and ...

Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft (WoW) is a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is widely acknowledged as the most popular ...

The What: Symetrix has released the latest version of its free Composer programming software for Edge, Radius NX, Prism, and Solus NX DSPs with multiple new features. The What Else: Composer 8.0 has ...