Microsoft game chief Phil Spencer on openness, HoloLens, and Xbox 1.5
Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft’s commitment to an open...
Microsoft answers Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s fears on Windows 10 openness
Microsoft maintains that Windows will remain an open platform. During a talk at Microsoft’s Build conference today in San Francisco, the company responded to...
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...
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,...
Microsoft plans to show critics how Windows is an open platform at Build
Microsoft is fending off criticisms of its plan to unify its products and to raise the profile of its Windows Store, and the company...
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...
Unreal Engine’s latest innovation is about building games while inside virtual reality
Epic Games is unveiling a new virtual reality edition of its Unreal Engine game-development tool today that enables you to create a video game from within...