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Epic Games says Unreal Engine added 1.5 million users in past year

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2016
2 min

Epic Games has gathered momentum in the past year as it made its Unreal Engine for game development available for free, said Tim Sweeney,...

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Here’s how to keep Windows an open platform

Posted byby Jason Wilson
March 10, 2016
6 min

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step...

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Why Epic’s Tim Sweeney blasted Microsoft in bid to keep Windows 10 open

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 5, 2016
10 min

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...

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney questions Microsoft’s commitment to an open Windows platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 4, 2016
7 min

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...

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Inside Amazon’s decision to make a video game engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2016
6 min

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,...

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Unity demonstrates new way to develop games inside virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2016
3 min

Unity Technologies has announced a virtual reality scene editor for its Unity game engine, enabling developers to create their own 3D games while moving...