February 4, 2022 Co-create And Collaborate Hiber upgrades its HiberWorld metaverse platform with no-code creation More than two million virtual worlds
February 19, 2021 Welcome To The Family Lucid Sight snaps up multiplayer game engine Colyseus It will launch a cloud-based version later this month
February 15, 2021 Competition Unity claims its "real competition" is companies still making own engines, not Epic But CFO Jabal points out the firm's dominance over the Fortnite maker in many areas
November 10, 2020 Pgc Digital PGC Digital: Double Coconut founder David Fox on exploring different game development tools Unity vs. Unreal vs. Godot vs. Cocos2D/LibGDX
May 19, 2020 Open Source Defold King is making its Defold game engine open source Establishing the Defold Foundation to help it grow
March 25, 2020 Teamwork Crytek teams up with Google to bring the Cryengine to Android It's expected to launch later this year
June 21, 2019 Auto Chess Valve’s first mobile game DOTA Underlords heads into open beta Title based on the new Auto Chess craze
June 19, 2019 Engine Trouble Report: Amazon is letting its dev teams use game engines other than Lumberyard Developers say firm is struggling with maintaining the middleware
June 13, 2019 No Code Movement AppOnboard acquires Buildbox game engine to power codeless development Buildbox CEO Trey Smith has joined AppOnboard as its chief growth officer and fellow co-founder Nik Rudenko has been named VP of technology
June 4, 2019 Key Changes GameMaker firm enacts strategic changes as it halves mobile licence fee and closes publishing division Free trial now includes all of the engine's features but has been limited to 30 days; publishing division has closed
May 10, 2019 Funding News Unity chases further $125 million funding round at $6 billion valuation Tech company has raised around $600 million to date
February 12, 2019 Going Public? Report: Unity eyes up 2020 IPO Firm eyes first half of 2020 for flotation, sources claim
January 29, 2019 Unity Unity Playground aims to open game development up to kids Scriptless asset suite seeks to provide a stepping stone for young users looking to get into the engine
January 10, 2019 Unity Versus Improbable Changes to Unity terms of service mean devs can't use engine with Improbable's SpatialOS tech Studios using this tech together is breach of the middleware's terms
January 9, 2019 Blockchain Engine Cocos-BCX officially launches its testnet to over 1.3 million developers A look at what the game engine brings to the blockchain
January 3, 2019 Engine Of Change Corona game engine goes open source Company hopes move will make development process more transparent
August 9, 2018 Yo Yo Yo GameMaker Studio 2 launches open beta for Nintendo Switch support The new edition will let developers port any previous games made with GameMaker Studio 2 to Switch
June 25, 2018 About Time Report: Telltale Games to ditch its own its own tech for Unity game engine Follows 15 years of using Telltale Tool
May 3, 2018 United Unity introduces scriptable render pipelines and C# Job System in 2018.1 update Latest version includes 330 new features and improvements
March 28, 2018 Royalty Engine Crytek adopts Unreal Engine-like royalty-based business model for CryEngine Firm to take five per cent of gross revenue following the first $5,000
March 26, 2018 Under The Hood Unity publishes reference-only C# source code on GitHub Developers can now take a deeper look into the popular game engine and tool suite
March 26, 2018 New Games Platform? Snapchat snaps up UK cloud-based HTML5 game engine PlayCanvas Could it be eyeing up instant games for the platform?
November 9, 2017 Uniting People Unity hires two ex-Insomniac Games lead engineers to head up new Los Angeles studio Mike Action and Andres Fredriksson take on new jobs as Principal Engineers
November 7, 2017 More Platforms GameMaker Studio 2 adds Amazon Appstore support Devs now have access to most recent and future versions of Amazon's APIs
October 23, 2017 Free Data GameAnalytics offers free tools for GameMaker Studio 2 devs Offers reporting and analysis features across platforms
August 9, 2017 Get Creative Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support Also includes other new tools and enhancements
June 29, 2017 Unreal Offer Epic Games teams up with Wargaming Mobile to support mobile developers using Unreal Engine 4 Pushing for mobile developers to use Unreal
May 9, 2017 Under Construction “We want to be the best listeners on the planet”: How Amazon is pitting Lumberyard against Unity and Unreal Amazon Games VP Mike Frazzini discusses the company's big plans for developers
April 25, 2017 Go Xenko Silicon Studio launches mobile and VR game engine Xenko after two years in beta Pricing starts at $75 a month per user
April 18, 2017 An Unexpected Match Appodeal on its plans for Corona and why more ad companies could enter the game engine fray Why did the ad mediation firm buy a 2D game engine developer?
March 17, 2017 Grab A Corona Appodeal snaps up 2D game engine developer Corona Labs Opening up its Enterprise pricing tier for free
March 10, 2017 Gdc Trends 5 key mobile trends from GDC 2017 VR, Eastern influence, engines and live ops - but are things really changing?
March 10, 2017 Make Games YoYo Games launches latest edition of drag-and-drop engine GameMaker Studio 2 Pricing starts at $99
March 2, 2017 Free Stuff Buildbox offering $100,000 of game assets in exchange for trying out its codeless game engine For an unspecified limited time
February 28, 2017 Big Numbers Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016 Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
February 24, 2017 A New Challenger Silicon Studio to release new mobile and VR game engine Xenko in April Free Beta version already available for download
February 23, 2017 Lift Your Game Amazon GameLift now works with all C++ and C#-based game engines Amazon Lumberyard updated to 1.8 too
January 26, 2017 Making Games How YoYo Games aims to make GameMaker Studio 2 more accessible than ever A peek under the hood of the new game engine
December 26, 2016 King Of Game Engines Learn all about King’s free Defold game engine at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017 There's a new game development tool around town...
December 14, 2016 New Year New Unity Unity 5.6 to be the last in the development cycle as the game engine moves onto Unity 2017 Due to launch in March 2017
December 12, 2016 The Journey So Far Jobs in Games: Unity's Aras Pranckevičius on how to get a job as a Graphics Programmer Some top tips on building a career in programming
November 25, 2016 Defold Competition King opens Defold game engine competition to send devs to GDC 2017 Entries close January 22nd
October 25, 2016 Logging On Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin office Working closely with Twitch team there
October 14, 2016 History Of Game Engines A messy history of game engines and a race to the bottom offers a warning for the future We take a look at the recent, messy past of game engines
September 27, 2016 Philanthropic, Or Just For Profit? What do mobile developers think of King's game engine Defold? Mobile Mavens debate the engine and its motivations
September 23, 2016 In Preview Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 goes live with new Asset Builder SDK Lumberyard strengthens its feature set