Hello, I'm in the process of researching and hopefully joining a college to study Game software development.
I can't say I know very much about it as of yet but I know it's something I'd be very interested in learning and making a career of.

I spent 2 years in college back in 2001 to 2003 for network engineering but it didn't go very well, due to real life issues I was forced out of the program early and wasn't able to return. I'm 25 now and really wanting to get back in to school.

I was wondering if anyone could share so websites or any type of information that I could study up on, to start things off. I'm a very self driven person and would like to learn as much as I can on my own while I find a way to get myself back into classes.

Any information is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.Hello,
please allow me to offer you some personal advice based on the comments you have provided. I like to be open and honest with all people, if I can. You have a very ambitious project. That is a good quality. And you are strongly motivated. At the age of 25, you have many options available to you. One of the things you need to do is to have some way of SUPPORTING yourself without spending too much time at work. So you need a job that will not take more than 40 hours a week and provide enough to meet your basic needs. Of course, I'm sure you're it had that in mind.
At your local college in your community there should be some free career counseling available to you. They can provide you with some general statistics on job opportunities, training, and REQUIREMENTS.
Before setting a target on a very specific software development, you may consider some broader areas of your field of interest. For example, many years ago I wanted to switch my field from general electronics to computer programming. So one of the things I did was to forget about my radio license and I got a certificate in as electronic technician. I used to work in broadcasting, but I could see that was too hard to advance with my talents. Meaning that my talents weren't that good but this boy was a great technician. So I got myself certified as a technician held a job for a while fixing television sets. Meanwhile, I did personal study on the new wave of personal computing. I trained myself in assembly language after I had built one of the early personal computers. Then we took off with a little trailer and went off to Silicon Valley and we camped in a state park all I would tramping around Silicon Valley looking for a job. I got into a place because I was a qualified technician, although I really wanted to do programming. So I started out as a senior technician and kept working my way around until they let me do some programming. So eventually I was working as a junior programmer, but my job title was still senior technician. My early attempts at trying to do college-level work just didn't seem to work for me. It was just too slow. And I needed to have money to pay for my expenses and help support my wife.
So, what I'm trying to say to you, is the flexible and make good use of what skills you are ready have. It may be hard to break into the field you want as it will take some file to get into it. By the way, I am bilingual and that MADE it easier for me in the workplace to communicate with people that had the language difficulties. I work for the fella that spoke Vietnamese, French and English. But his English was not very good. I didn't know any Vietnamese. And I didn't know enough French to to ood that I could sometimes convey ideas to him by using what skills I had. Anyhow, made a pretty good team. I would help him on technical things with a testing new machines we had and he would help me with drawing up patterns for new boards I would work on. The skills I had learned by learning another language were helpful in knowing how to communicate with him in a simple way.
So, what would that possibly have to do with computer game programming? A whole lot! If you have taken the trouble to learn another language and work with the people that speak another language you have overcome a very IMPORTANT barrier in getting into the computer game industry. The ability to work in another language and to deal with complicated documentation and take exact instructions from other people when it's hard to understand is a very important virtue in the computer game industry. The computer game industry right now requires people to be fluent in English, Japanese and French. Yes, in South East Asia French is a common language for many the people there. The big company is Nintendo. And they will expect you to be bilingual.
So, I hope that this gives you some food for thought. Find out what you're best at and use that to support yourself right now. And then figure some way which you can target your goal of computer game programming, if that's what she really wanted to.
As for networking, there are many jobs in the networking and IT industry. Just go take a look on the craigslist or on almost any IT job list and you will find there are many, many jobs in the network area. The jobs for computer game programming required very specific and very narrow of abilities in programming. But, have much broader requirements in social and communication skills, such as being bilingual and the ability to work with people from different backgrounds.
By the way, this is being done with speech recognition software. I am disabled for now, and am not able to hold down a full-time job in the IT industry. My ability to read and WRITE and spend long hours at typing code has now gone past.

so if you find my grammar kind of funny, I really don't talk that way. It's just a computer doesn't always understand. I really do speak fluent English.