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.
Ryse developer offers its powerful CryEngine for $10 a month — half the price of Epic’s tech
Developers have plenty of options when deciding what engine to use to build their game.
Epic Games breaks triple-A secrecy and gives access to Unreal Engine’s source code
As of today, anyone will be able to get access to Unreal Engine 4 for a $19 per month subscription fee and a revenue sharing agreement that grants Epic Games 5 percent of all revenues.
Mozilla and Unity partner to make the browser one of Unity’s many available platforms
"This was easily the most requested thing from developers when we started talking to them [about web-based gaming]," said Mozilla game platform strategist Martin Best about bring Unity to the browser.