Google Maps platform adds new styles and gameplay options for mobile games
Google unveiled a platform a year ago that enable game developers to create location-based games based on its Google Maps technology. And now the...
Google Maps gaming platform expands after a year of success stories
Google is touting the success of its Google Maps gaming platform, which launched a year ago to bring location-based features to more mobile games....
Google needs to actually make games if it wants to matter
Google has begun teasing its video game initiative. During a session at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will...
Google launches app campaign features to help mobile game developers grow their business
Google is unveiling new advertising campaign features that will enable mobile game developers to grow their business. The new tools target everything from pre-launch...
Jade Raymond joins Google as a vice president, boosting its gaming cred
Jade Raymond announced today that she has joined Google as a vice president. That’s a big move for Raymond, who previously served as an...
The ‘e’ in esports also stands for ‘engagement’
Who would have thought we’d live in a world where we’d even fathom video games worthy of consideration as an Olympic sport? Or where...
Nintendo VR? Yes. Cardboard Labo VR? No thanks
Back in 2014, Google debuted Cardboard, a basic virtual reality viewer made from $5 worth of parts. At a time when standalone VR headsets...
Cloud gaming will determine the new lord of digital distribution
Nearly 15 years ago, most video games were sold in brick-and-mortar stores. Valve was about to launch Steam, and people could anticipate that digital...
Google launches Flutter 1.2 and Dart DevTools
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Google launched version 1.2 of Flutter, its open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native...
Apple is prioritizing AR — and that’s a good thing
Until recently, it was easy to dismiss augmented reality as at best a luxury add-on to cellphones, at worst a gimmicky marketing stunt. From...