Categories Posted inin Development See what Tim Schafer is doing with all your (his) money Posted byby GamesBeat March 9, 2012 1 min Remember that time game maker Tim Schafer asked for $400,000 on Kickstarter and the world gave him $2.5 million? You might be wondering what... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Development Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 8, 2012 3 min Mobile games are so plentiful that discovering the right one has become a nightmare. But Facebook believes that it has a solution in layering... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Development Browser-based games get real 3D graphics with latest Unreal Engine and Flash technology Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 7, 2012 2 min Epic Games did a demo today of Unreal Engine 3 running in the Adobe Flash environment. That means games with good 3D graphics will be able... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 6, 2012 3 min Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Development Zynga reaches beyond Facebook with Zynga.com Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 6, 2012 4 min Zynga.com just went live. Announced last week, the web site is a new destination for Zynga’s gamers, who have been largely confined to playing... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Development Facebook paid $1.4B to game developers in 2011 Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 5, 2012 2 min Facebook paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers (and other app makers) in 2011, according to a Facebook talk at the Game Developers... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Otoy buys Refractive Software and announces cloud-based digital animation technology (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2012 3 min Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Development Iddiction’s App-o-Day aims to cure App Store discovery woes with “Groupon for apps” Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2012 3 min Discovery is still a huge problem on the Apple App Store, with 578,716 active apps and no sure-fire way to stand out. Iddiction hopes... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Development Ludei’s CocoonJS enables blazing-fast HTML5 mobile games (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2012 2 min As the lingua franca for the web, HTML5 is becoming the format of choice for making cross-platform apps. But when it comes to games,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Kiip entices more game developers into its mobile-rewards network Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 1, 2012 2 min Rewards-network Kiip is about to kick off a big effort to get more game developers to use its mobile program. The company is announcing... Continue Reading 2 min