Epic is making a new, free Unreal Tournament to promote its new developer tools
Epic is promoting its Unreal Engine 4 development tool by working with fans and developers to make a new Unreal Tournament.
Even Hearthstone runs on Unity — and that’s why it’s already on iPad
The StarCraft and Diablo publisher has never made a mobile game before -- so it needed a good toolset to pull off the card-battler's port.
Silicon Valley heavyweights are helping underprivileged teens make iOS games
"I am very excited to sponsor a woman of color for this year’s program. The tech industry needs makers from all backgrounds and experiences!" said Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.
Who’s behind the wheel on development for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel? Everyone
There's no easy way to draw lines between 2K Australia and Gearbox Software in terms of who's developing what for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
300M downloads and $600M in revenue say Google is the ‘loser’s choice’ in mobile games monetization
Smart game developers are choosing startup ad companies like Vungle and AdColony when monetizing their mobile games. They are most certainly not picking Google.
HTML5 apps can be just as speedy as native apps with the new Famo.us Javascript framework
"We have a Ferrari engine. ... People who understand JavaScript adopt Famo.us within twenty minutes."
Mobile industry 'is in denial' about underage gamers
If the FTC makes good on last week's promises, people won't be able to stay in denial much longer.
The No. 1 ‘reason to be’ at the Game Developers Conference 2014: Diversity
Panel organizers Brenda Romero and Leigh Alexander made it clear through their slate of speakers for the 2014 edition of #1ReasonToBe that the panel is about diversity in the video game industry, which goes beyond concerns only about gender.
Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS. ’80s kids dance in the streets
This story takes me right back to 1987, hanging out on the living room floor, futzing with floppy disks and command prompts and the original version of King's Quest.
How do you solve a problem like acquisition?
The monetization model for Free-2-Play (F2P) has been built on one simple premise - the more players you get into the game the more money you make. However, there’s trouble in paradise with acquisition costs soaring, leaving publishers and developers struggling to balance the books of marketing ROI.