Nitpick shield: Games don’t “need” a language, but such a thing would be useful. I’m not complaining about the person who titled this article. I had the same problem yesterday when I said GTA V was “Banned”<\/a> instead of more correctly stating it was “un-stocked from certain retailers in one country in response to an internet petition”. It’s really hard to cram complex ideas into pithy article titles. I’m okay with a bit of conceptual slop as long as it still conveys the basic idea. The only downside is the prevalence of people who argue with article titles without reading the article. Those people make me sad.<\/p>\n ANYWAY.<\/p>\n My column this week<\/a> talks about the fact that we use C++ for making AAA games, and why that’s strange and un-optimal. The conversation stems from this video<\/a>:<\/p>\n