[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31755421/ns/technology_and_science-games/[/url]
[QUOTE]thanks to the newly launched “Kodu,” we can begin to master the magic that makes a video game tick and, in a matter of hours, we can even make an Xbox 360 game of our very own.

A team at Microsoft Research has just launched “Kodu Game Lab” on the Xbox Live Community Games channel. Originally created to make programming more accessible to kids, “Kodu” is not so much a game as it is a set of tools — tools that not only teach basic programming concepts but also make programming so easy and so much fun that almost anyone can dive into it.
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Though “Kodu” has been dubbed a kiddie version of “LittleBigPlanet” — that’s not exactly accurate. Yes, like “LittleBigPlanet” and several other games that fly the user-generated flag, “Kodu” lets players create game levels to share with others.

But while most of those games focus on things like designing the way your character looks or the way the terrain is shaped — Kodu is less about how things look and all about how things behave. That is: It’s all about the programming behind the pretty surface of a game.
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It seems to be able to do a lot for something that's only priced at $5