Why Epic’s Tim Sweeney blasted Microsoft in bid to keep Windows 10 open
About once a decade, Tim Sweeney, the graphics guru and CEO of Epic Games, stirs the hornet’s nest. He did so on Friday by...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney questions Microsoft’s commitment to an open Windows platform
Tim Sweeney is of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, and he stirred...
Inside Amazon’s decision to make a video game engine
Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date,...
Unity demonstrates new way to develop games inside virtual reality
Unity Technologies has announced a virtual reality scene editor for its Unity game engine, enabling developers to create their own 3D games while moving...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
Epic Games debuts MOBA title Paragon at PSX
Epic Games debuted their new MOBA IP at Sony's PlayStation Experience keynote press conference.
Chair Entertainment remasters Shadow Complex for PC, Xbox One and PS4
Chair Entertainment, a division of Epic Games, announced today that it has remastered its Shadow Complex hit game for the PC, Xbox One, and...
Unity has democratized game development, but CEO John Riccitiello worries about too much VR hype
Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney believes virtual reality will evolve more like console games than mobile
It seems like we just can’t get enough of Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games. Sweeney has been a video game graphics guru...
The DeanBeat: In the VR industry, a thousand startups will bloom. Most won’t make it
We’re all trying to get a handle on virtual reality, and its cousin, augmented reality. Will it be a bust? Or will the two...
