Sony devoted significant portions of both its February PlayStation 4 announcement and its big E3 conference to its embrace of game developers, including indie game developers of all sizes. These announcements have built good will for Sony with both developers…
Epic Shuts Down Impossible Studios After Just Six Months
Epic Games today announced that it is shutting down Impossible Studios. No reason was give other than “it wasn’t working out for Epic.” Impossible was formed only six months ago, on August 9, 2012. The employees at the company were…
Latest DayZ Update Includes a Fashion Show
The last developer update on the upcoming standalone version of DayZ included just about everything fans of the game could want to know. Dean “Rocket” Hall revealed that many of the proposed overhauls are complete and that others are being…
Arma 3 Map Name Changed Following Greece Arrests
Bohemia Interactive today announced that it will be changing the name of the main island featured in its upcoming Arma 3. The island will now be known as “Altis,” rather than “Limnos.” The name change comes after two Bohemia developers,…
Mobile Game Development Is Easy And Profitable (If You’re Lucky)
It seems that everybody is going into mobile game development these days. The traditional console market is shrinking as more and more gamers tire of the same 6-year-old hardware. They’re beginning to look for new experiences that they can’t get…
Suda51 Studio Bought by GungHo Online Entertainment
GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE), a Japanese publisher, today announced that it has acquired the video game development studio Grasshopper Manufacture. GOE stated that Grasshopper Manufacture will continue to operate under that name, and that games currently under development will not…
Adobe Game Jam Shows Off The Latest Flash Development Tools
Earlier this month, Adobe added its popular game development tools to its Creative Cloud membership program. The move will help lower the entry barrier into developing with Flash as it lets developers have access to every Adobe CS6, Web and…
Adobe Adds Game Developer Tools To Creative Cloud
Back in February, Adobe published a white paper that outlined the future of Flash Player. The company said that it would be refocusing its efforts on gaming and Web video after discontinuing work on the mobile version for Android. Almost…
Epic Games President Steps Down to Advisory Role
Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, announced this week that he will be leaving his position and stepping down to an advisory role within the company. He will also remain on Epic’s board of directors. This announcement comes just two…
Skullgirls Creators Found a New Development Studio, Lab Zero Games
Though the game wasn’t a sensation, Skullgirls was a solid, well-reviewed indie fighting game that found a home on the PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game itself was an ode to fighting games, created by fans and professionals…
Amazon Adds Unity Plugins To Its Game Development Tools
Mark my words – Unity is going to be the next big game engine that everybody uses. Unreal Engine is still going to be the go to development suite for big budget console and PC games, but more and more…
EA Opens New Development Studio, Ghost, in Sweden
It may seem odd, but over the past few years Sweden has become quite a haven for game development studios. In addition to larger developers such as Starbreeze Stuidos (the developer of Syndicate and the Chronicles of Riddick games), indie…
Watch Dogs Preview Released; Ubisoft is hiring
Ubisoft today released its first look at Watch Dogs since the game became the surprise hit of E3 this past spring. For those who missed Ubisoft’s E3 announcement and accompanying gameplay footage, Watch Dogs is a near-future cyberpunk game set…
Bethesda Opens a New Studio in Austin
Bethesda Softworks this week announced it will open a new game development studio in Austin Texas. The studio will be named Battlecry Studios and will be headed by Rich Vogel. Vogel was most recently the executive producer for Star Wars:…
Facebook Talks Game Development At GDC Europe
Facebook is getting more and more involved with the games industry. They have one of the biggest gaming platforms on the Web and they need to enlist new talent if they are to survive. That’s why the social network attends…
Black Isle Studios Resurrected by Interplay
The website of the defunct video game developer Black Isle Studios was re-activated today, and it appears as if Interplay has resurrected the studio to create RPGs. As seen in the screenshot of the website above, a message on the…
Epic Games Creates Impossible Studios From the Remnants of Big Huge Games
Epic Games, the developer behind the Gears of War franchise and the Unreal Engine today announced the official opening of Impossible Studios. The studio is located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, and Epic has named Sean Dunn as studio director. Dunn…
Mozilla Inspired To Rethink How We Create
I love inspirational speakers. They have a certain air about them, like they know what they’re talking about. While their job is to inspire people to do great things, it’s even better when their actions, not their words, inspire us…
Google Talks Porting Games To Chrome
Google had quite the presence at the Game Developers Conference last week from announcing Google Play to helping developers compress high quality textures. Today, the developers have uploaded one of their other talks that focused on porting titles to Chrome.…