Even Hearthstone runs on Unity — and that’s why it’s already on iPad
The StarCraft and Diablo publisher has never made a mobile game before -- so it needed a good toolset to pull off the card-battler's port.
Pushing into game services, Unity buys predictive analytics startup Playnomics (exclusive)
Unity Technologies is expanding beyond its game engine to services with the acquisition of Playnomics, which provides predictive analytics for game developers, GamesBeat has...
Oddworld's Lorne Lanning bets that fans will love a 3D re-creation of Abe's Oddysee (interview)
Abe is back on the menu thanks to some scrappy thinking from creator Lorne Lanning.
Nintendo’s Wii U could become the next big home for indie console developers (interview)
GamesBeat met with Damon Baker, Nintendo's senior manager of licensing marketing, to discuss this new indie content initiative -- and the concept of an open-platform Nintendo blew our minds.
Discover the state of mobile gaming in a fireside chat with SGN’s Chris DeWolfe (interview)
SGN is making mobile games, but it hasn't abandoned Facebook as a proving ground for new ideas.
Ryse developer offers its powerful CryEngine for $10 a month — half the price of Epic’s tech
Developers have plenty of options when deciding what engine to use to build their game.
Sony continues its courtship of indies with deal to bring GameMaker Studio to the PlayStation 4
The game-development kit also offers native exporting for PS4, PS3, and Vita.
Mozilla and Unity partner to make the browser one of Unity’s many available platforms
"This was easily the most requested thing from developers when we started talking to them [about web-based gaming]," said Mozilla game platform strategist Martin Best about bring Unity to the browser.
Moscow’s Game Insight has quietly been amassing big mobile game revenues (interview)
We caught up with Game Insight CEO Alisa Chumachenko to talk about games that are making tens of millions of dollars.
Unity acquires Applifier as mobile game replays take off
Everyplay has 6 million users and is growing at a rate of more than 1 million a month.