Thanks to everyone who helped kick off the Philly GameWorks Malvern game developers group. There are many many tools and platforms you can publish to. On opening night we covered Unity publishing to the Windows Store, so here are the tools you need to get started with these.
You can watch a few videos to get you started making games:
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
Unity game engine
Go here to download:
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows
http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads
Unity Game Engine
http://unity3d.com/unity/download