Categories Posted inin Development SpriteBuilder game developer tools introduce three tiers of subscriptions Posted byby Mike Minotti March 2, 2015 1 min SpriteBuilder's subscription plans range from free to $300 a month.
Categories Posted inin Business Ex-SSI Gold Box devs go ‘back to the future’ with tools to transfer characters across role-playing games (updated) Posted byby Jason Wilson March 2, 2015 2 min Designed for Seven Dragon Saga, the "Gateway" system also includes support for Torment: Tides of Numenera and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.
Categories Posted inin Business World of Warcraft’s new real money-for-gold effort brings more free-to-play to Blizzard’s cash cow Posted byby GamesBeat March 2, 2015 12 min Blizzard will offer gamers a way to buy gold legitimately using an auction for game time, which may lead to changes in tradeable high-end raid dungeon items and the game’s auction houses.
Categories Posted inin Business Google unveils a slew of new features for Android game developers Posted byby GamesBeat March 2, 2015 3 min Google is announcing a number of new features for game developers, from analytics tools to native ads and a second-screen API.
Categories Posted inin Business PC gaming expected to be worth $35 billion in 2018 Posted byby Mike Minotti March 2, 2015 1 min PC gaming is huge, and it's only going to get bigger.
Categories Posted inin Development Unreal Engine 4 goes free — but Epic Games still gets its 5% cut of your royalties Posted byby Jason Wilson March 2, 2015 1 min This is a significant move in game-developer circles as UE4 fights for an increased share with other multiplatform engines such as Unity.
Categories Posted inin Technology RockYou raises $23M in funding based on its business of running older games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2015 2 min RockYou acquires aging social games and operates them at a profit.
Categories Posted inin Business Tapjoy unveils ‘complete marketing automation and monetization platform’ for freemium mobile apps Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2015 3 min The aim is to help mobile developers get the most out of each user.
Categories Posted inin Technology Ninja Metrics shows which ad networks are really delivering the most social and lucrative users Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2015 4 min The Katana analytics system can now make ad spending 40% more efficient as a result.
Categories Posted inin Business Trine 3 announced, check out the gorgeous first trailer Posted byby Mike Minotti March 2, 2015 1 min The next Trine is coming, and it looks beautiful.