Facebook has paid out $8B to developers
Those numbers will likely keep going up, with Facebook expected to announce several bits of developer-oriented news later today at the F8 conference.
Mobile marketing: Swrve’s new Converser makes your app chattier … and maybe richer
Last month Swrve bought in-app communications startup Converser. Today the mobile marketing automation system is releasing its newly-integrated functionality to the first customers. Converser, Swrve,...
Indie designer Zoe Quinn to developers: You can code comedy, too
During her GDC 2015 session, indie designer Zoe Quinn discussed how looking at comedy as the same kind of two-way input structure as most design elements could lead to a wider spread of funny games.
GDC hits a record 26,000 attendees for virtual reality, game culture talks, and parties
The Game Developers Conference returns to San Francisco in 2016 from March 14 to March 18.
Black developers explain how free game engines, incentives will bring more black people into games
Free tools like Unity and Source 2 are only part of the solution.
Has the game industry turned the corner on women and diversity? (interview)
Kate Edwards talks about the state of the game industry and the cause of diversity.
Mobile developers: We’re coming for you (in Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal)
The industry now has more than 30 billion-dollar mobile-first or mobile-only companies. It’s the fastest-paced, most competitive, and quickest-growing section in history. The rewards are...
Epic Games’ new ‘A Boy and His Kite’ tech demo points to blue skies for the game industry
It's all flowers and blue skies for Epic Games and its Unreal Engine.
Watch Portal come to life thanks to Microsoft’s Kinect
These are holographic windows like you've never seen them before.
Watch Mozilla preview WebGL 2, the first major update to plugin-free 3D graphics in the browser
There were a lot of announcements at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco today, but one flew under the radar: a preview of WebGL 2. Mozilla gave us a sneak peek of what will one day power games and other intensive applications in the browser.