Lockwood Publishing will debut 3D avatars in Avakin Poker (exclusive)

The developer of PlayStation Home's Sodium series has expanded to make games and 3D avatars on mobile platforms.

Minecraft creator launches psychedelic typing game Drop

Markus "Notch" Persson found inspiration for his tiny new title from his ceiling and a few recent games.

Epic Games extends Unreal Engine 4 to mobile games, creates an eye-popping next-gen demo

Unreal's cool 3D animations will scale for all devices including mobile, next-generation consoles, and high-end PCs.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox 720, 3DS XL, and surviving the zombie apocalypse

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Unity Technologies looks to rule Linux and mobile gaming with Unity 4

Today, Unity Technologies announced plans to update its Unity development tools and graphical engine. A graphical engine like Unity is a piece of software that lets a developer make a game without having to program all of the graphics from …

Adobe Flash-based mass market games will go 3D in a big way

Adobe is about to taking mass market gaming up a notch. The company is introducing a number of high-end gaming features — from 3D graphics to easier mobile porting — today with the launch of version 11.2 of its Flash …

Total Immersion shows off cool new augmented reality game platform

Total Immersion is releasing a new racing game demo that shows off the tools developers can use to create augmented reality games.

With the D’Fusion tools, developers can create games such as a racing titles that exploit a computer’s webcam …

LG, Unity Technologies team up to bring video games to Smart TVs

Unity Technologies and electronics manufacturing giant LG are teaming up to bring video games to Smart TVs in 2012.

The deal is similar to one LG recently made with cloud gaming service Gaikai and is all part of the company’s …

Unity Technologies developers will be able to publish 3D games via Adobe Flash

Unity Technologies announced today that its developers will be able to take the games they’ve created and publish them in the Flash 3D format, allowing them to reach much bigger audiences on the web than before.

Unity is beginning the …

Can a single game reach a billion players?

A growing number of game visionaries are saying a single game can reach a billion people. That idea has become a cause célèbre, providing a target for an industry that is expanding beyond its old boundaries.

For skeptics who believe …

Unity Technologies hopes to woo developers with new 3D game tools

Unity Technologies showed off version 3.5 of its 3D game tools today in an effort to widen its reach and help 3D games spread onto all new gaming platforms.

The new update offers more 3D graphics features that will make …

Unity Technologies raises $12M to push game development tools in Asia

Unity Technologies said it has raised $12 million in a second round of funding so that it can expand into the Asian market and accelerate its technology development.

The San Francisco company’s Unity game development platform helps developers make cool …

Unity launches new version of 3D game engine technology

Hoping to close the graphics quality gap with game tool makers that focus on console-quality graphics, Unity Technologies is launching a new version of its game engine that powers online games and iPhone apps.

The new version of the Unity …