Amazon launches AWS C++ SDK designed for game developers
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Amazon-owned public cloud that companies can use to build and run applications, announced today the availability of an open-source...
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes channels the Millennium Falcon’s holotable in a mobile game
Remember when RD-D2 let the Wookie win? Remember the holotable they were playing on? Someone is making a game designed around that. To be...
Pac-Man 256 has a game-crashing bug — Hipster Whale has a patch on the way
Pac-Man 256 made a serious splash in the mobile arena when it launched two weeks ago, but it has a glitch that threatens the...
Watch Hideo Kojima’s farewell to Metal Gear: a goodbye unique to gaming
Developer Hideo Kojima is done making Metal Gear. He’s done making any game at publisher Konami. And as fans play through his latest release,...
Epic’s Unreal Engine virtual reality demo hits Oculus Rift, PS4’s Morpheus, and Vive
Virtual reality is one of the oncoming technical innovations that has the gaming community excited about the future, and game developer and tool creator...
FTC settles with Machinima for paying YouTube influencers to endorse Xbox One
The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges with Machinima, which had been accused of deceptive advertising by paying “influencers” to post YouTube videos that...
GamesBeat 2015 adds Nexon’s chief Owen Mahoney as a speaker
Our latest GamesBeat 2015 speaker is Owen Mahoney, the president and chief executive of Nexon, the Asian online gaming giant that has created titles...
On Steam, Windows 10 adoption is already ahead of Windows 8, Vista, XP, Mac, and Linux
Valve today updated its Hardware & Software Survey for August 2015, and the good market share news seen by Microsoft this past month is...
Super Mario Maker is a joy every second you’re playing or building
[gb_review_rich_text game_title=”Super Mario Maker” platforms=”Wii U” genre=”Platforming” review_rating_value=”5″ official_page_url=”http://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/”] When I turned 5 years old, my family bought me a Nintendo Entertainment System with...
Lara Croft Go developer on turning an action blockbuster into a turn-based mobile game
Antoine Routon on creating a turn-based game out of Hitman and Tomb Raider