25 years of covering games: My views of then and now
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As...
Game developers weigh in on the openness of Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform
Tim Sweeney is one of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games. He kicked...
The Mustards dish on Shadow Complex Remastered and working with J.J. Abrams on Spyjinx
Chair Entertainment has been busy since it concluded its 50-million-download Infinity Blade mobile game series in 2014. Chair, a division of Epic Games, has just...
How Unity is pushing VR and better 3D graphics with its game engine
Unity Technologies showed off some high-end graphics demos created with its Unity 5 game engine last week at the Game Developers Conference. That shows...
Epic Games demos amazing real-time motion capture for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade
Ninja Theory is making a highly realistic viking psychological thriller called Hellblade. At the center of it is a woman warrior, Senua, who is...
Epic Games says Unreal Engine added 1.5 million users in past year
Epic Games has gathered momentum in the past year as it made its Unreal Engine for game development available for free, said Tim Sweeney,...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Here’s how to keep Windows an open platform
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...
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,...