Unity Technologies has announced the release of the Unity Android and Unity Android Pro versions of its popular 3D development platform.
Because Unity has been designed to offer a single authoring environment for all of its supported platforms, including iOS, the company says developers can now port their Unity-based games to Android with a single click of a button.
Shadow Complex, Infinity Blade developer reveals its three golden rules of downloadable development.
Chair Entertainment, developer of iOS hit Infinity Blade, said at a GDC session earlier today that its success as a digital studio came almost by accident.
EA said today that Chillingo and Playfish are to offer publishing services to the independent development community as part of an expansion of the EA Partners program.
The EA-owned firms’ expanded publishing roles will focus on delivering indie content to fast-growing mobile and social gaming platforms such as the App Store, Google Android and Facebook.
Home 1.5 features bolstered graphics, physics and realtime multiplayer gaming; due this spring.
Sony is set to reinvent PlayStation 3’s social gaming service Home as a fully-featured multiplayer gaming platform with the release of Home 1.5.
The update was announced today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco and is to focus on three key areas – graphics, physics, and realtime multiplayer gaming.
The global PC game market saw "surprisingly strong growth in 2010", recording record annual revenue of $16.2 billion, according to new research released by the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA).
The non-profit organisation said the figure represents growth of 20 per cent over 2009’s total.
The data comes from the PCGA’s third annual Horizons report, which was prepared by market research firm DFC Intelligence.
Market research firm DFC Intelligence has forecast that the European market for digital game content will grow to €3.3 billion ($4.2 billion) by 2015.
If achieved, the figure would be almost double the €1.7 billion ($2.2 billion) the market generated in 2010.
The data comes from a new report, Monetising the European Market for Virtual Currency, the key findings of which are due to be presented this Thursday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, according to co-contributor Live Gamer.
Nvidia and Epic showing off latest enhancements – tessellation, Physx, 3D Vision and more – at GDC.
Epic Games is showing off the latest enhancements to its Unreal Engine at this week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Chief amongst them is the addition of DX11 support.
Unreal Engine 3 now features DX11 tessellation as well as support for Nvidia’s Physx, Apex and 3D Vision technologies. A realtime demo showcasing the engine’s capabilities will be shown off at GDC.
Search giant gives GDC attendees free hardware for the third year running.
Google yesterday continued its tradition of rewarding attendees to its Game Developers Conference (GDC) sessions with free hardware.
Having given out HTC Evo 4G phones last year and HTC Magic handsets in 2009, this year the firm gave attendees free Cr-48 laptops which run on Google’s Chrome OS, which is still in development.
How voice and gesture recognition in 14 languages posed fresh localisation challenges.
At yesterday’s GDC session, New Technology and New Interfaces: Localising Videogames for Kinect, Microsoft explained the fresh challenges posed by the simultaneous worldwide release of its motion-sensing peripheral, with gesture and voice recognition requiring a unique approach to localisation.
Dream Build Play returns for a sixth year, with cash prizes and XBLA publishing contracts up for grabs.
Microsoft has used this week’s Game Developers Conference to open registrations for Dream Build Play, its indie development contest using its XNA Game Studio tools.
Following the Japanese launch of Nintendo's revolutionary handheld, we deliver our impressions of its key games.
Nintendo's 3DS is off to a flying start in Japan following its launch at the weekend, and there are now only 25 days to wait until the UK launch. Here, we go hands-on with the key titles that will be available when it reaches our shores and deliver our initial impressions.
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Final months of Super Meat Boy development like “living this same awful day over and over.”
Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat used yesterday’s GDC session, Super Meat Boy: A Team Meat Meatmortem, to describe its two-month crunch to meet a Microsoft-imposed deadline as “like Groundhog Day”.
Peter Vesterbacka says Angry Birds is anything but disposable as it is constantly updated with new content.
Angry Birds publisher Rovio has hit back at Nintendo’s recent comments about “candidly disposable” mobile games, saying its bird-flinging smash hit is anything but a throwaway distraction.
At Rovio’s GDC session, Angry Birds: An Entertainment Franchise in the Making, executive Peter Vesterbacka said the firm did not see its game as disposable at all because of how frequently it was updated.
Publisher bringing erotic-horror title to the west this summer despite recent statements to the contrary.
Atlus has confirmed that it is to publish Team Persona’s Catherine in the west, just days after saying it had no plans to do so.
The publisher announced today that the game, Team Persona’s debut on the current generation of consoles, will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in the west this Summer.
The technology company reveals that work on its handheld device has been discontinued due to "changes in the market".
Panasonic has announced that development of its Jungle portable gaming console will cease, citing "changes in the market" and in its own "strategic direction" as reasons for the decision. Two of those changes are most likely the recently unveiled Nintendo 3DS and Sony's NGP, both of which offer online connectivity.
The author of Game Design: Theory And Practice on morality in games and how its considered inclusion can elevate them.
No surprises as shooter returns to the top of the Nordic all-formats chart.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops is once again at the summit of the Nordic all-formats chart.
Activision’s unstoppable sales colossus was briefly dethroned last week by the release of open-world racing sequel Test Drive Unlimited 2, but with sales tailing off it drops all the way down to seventh, allowing Black Ops to regain its crown.
Countdown timer expiring in under five days, suggesting GDC reveal for this year’s Call Of Duty.
It appears Activision is to officially unveil Modern Warfare 3 at next week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
Activision’s cancellation of True Crime: Hong Kong leads to at least 25 staff being let go.
Vancouver studio United Front Games has confirmed that an unspecified number of staff have been made redundant.
The news is a logical consequence of the cancellation by publisher Activision two weeks ago of True Crime: Hong Kong, which the studio was developing.
Notch mulls over introducing "a kind of narrative" to his sandbox hit through achievement trees.
Markus “Notch” Persson has said he wants to introduce achievements to his indie hit Minecraft.
Splinter Cell: Conviction game director on how to create engaging cooperative experiences.
Disagreement over importance of tax breaks appears to have ended prospect of suggested merger.
UK videogame industry trade association TIGA has walked away from talks on a proposed merger with fellow trade body UKIE.
Publisher pours cold water on calls for erotic horror puzzler’s western release; says no plans "at this time”.
Atlus, publisher of Team Persona’s baffling erotic horror game Catherine, has said it has no plans to release the game in the West.
The publisher issued a brief statement to Beefjack saying: “Catherine is a Japan-only game and there are no plans for a North American release at this time. Sorry about that!”
Zoe Mode’s Chime drives strong first year for nonprofit publisher, with proceeds donated to charity.
Nonprofit game publisher OneBigGame has announced that it made a $100,000 profit in its first year of trading.
The firm says 96 per cent of that figure was donated equally to its two charity partners, Save The Children and Starlights Children Foundation.
