Microsoft has ported a very special game it actually regards as a game-creation tool from Xbox to the PC and made it available for download at no charge. Today, January 12th, 2009, the Redmond company started offering the
first public Beta of Kodu, a Microsoft Research project previously codenamed Boku. Unlike traditional games, Kodu is designed to let children not only play, but also create their own games, all the while teaching them the basic skills associated with programming. According to the software giant, the decision to tailor Kodu, a tool which was offered initially only for the Xbox console, to the PC, was catalyzed by the need to get the program into schools
