The well-known game designer started at Electronic Arts, working on The Sims. Now, she's running a Ubisoft studio with 300 employees.
Unreal's cool 3D animations will scale for all devices including mobile, next-generation consoles, and high-end PCs.
Ouya rewarded its most loyal fans with the first consoles ahead of the formal retail launch.
Turbine takes a break from its MMO duties with Infinite Crisis, a multiplayer online battle arena game that throws in parallel versions of famous DC superheroes like Batman and Wonder Woman.
But as one panelist said, "Problems with graphics tend to be solved by Moore's Law, but problems with business models do not."
Publishers got the money. Game devs got the IP. and GDC has this epic showdown between heavyweights in each category.
The African digital games landscape is still in its infancy. Here’s what local developers and game studios are doing to help it grow.
Game developers will show off their coolest innovative prototypes at the GDC.
Sony will talk more in-depth about its upcoming game console.
Roughly half of those surveyed view themselves as indie game developers.
Editor's Pick It's going to be a year full of interesting gaming news, from new console launches to new mobile device debuts.
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For decades, the dominant theme in video games has been violence. That’s not surprising, since violent competitions have been dominant in culture for thousands of years. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Video games can be about love, …
Editor's Pick After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn't Electronic Arts anymore. It's Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Europe's largest social game publisher with more than 49 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Now Wooga has raised $24 million in venture capital and has grown to more than 150 employees. The company now faces a number of strategic decisions, such as doubling down on Facebook or spreading out to platforms such as Google+ or Zynga.com. We caught up with co-founder Jens Begemann at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of our interview.
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Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game Developers Conference is one of my favorite events of the year because it places such a …
Call of Duty Elite is turning out to be a highly engaging social network for hardcore fans of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The online social network now has more than 670,000 clans, or groups of players who team …
The first step in creating a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game in today’s market is to start with the world’s most popular intellectual property: Star Wars.
So says Dallas Dickinson, director of production for Electronic Arts’ BioWare division. In fact, …
The annual Game Developers Conference broke records this year with more than 22,500 attendees, up 17 percent from a year ago.
That’s probably a sign of the times, as the overall game industry has expanded and, as a whole, has …
The newest content drop for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is nearing its release. We’ve already played the add-on maps — check below to see what you’ll be able to experience as soon as March 20, if you have …
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Game Insight has quietly become a big force in mobile. The Moscow-based game publisher owns a majority stake in 15 game studios with more than 300 developers. The company has published dozens of games on Android and iOS. And it …
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …
