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I just finished publishing the GameFromScratch 3D Engine round-up.  This is a guide to the top game engines in use by game developers today, that are available to be licensed. There are a total of 20 engines on the list, and for each one it includes the platforms it runs on, the platforms it can […]

I wrote sometime back about RIM’s open-source Gameplay SDK.  GamePlay is a complete 3D engine that targets Blackberry OS 10/PlayBook OS, Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS X.  They just announced the release of 1.4 and it’s full of some pretty nice additions:   New features Lua script bindings on all public interfaces of the framework. […]

  I don’t often get excited about unreleased products, and up until this point I have never gotten all too excited about a Kickstarter project ( although I really look forward to a possible Planescape sequel! ), especially a hardware package that sounds too good to be true.  “The first truly immersive virtual reality headset […]

  I recently completed work on a tutorial series A Simple JavaScript Game using Node, cocos2D, YUI and Heroku, which followed the creation of a simple app for my own use.  It was a pretty complete application with one glaring fault…  there was no persistence.  The application was hosted using Heroku’s free tier which doesn’t […]

As you can probably tell if you have visited before, I have made some changes to the layout of the site.  This is one of those items that has been on my to-do list since… well basically since I created this site.  I originally used slightly modified existing theme when I created the site, then […]

Unreal have just release the July update of the popular Unreal Engine. New features include: Perforce version control integration Normal map workflow improvements Numerous Unreal Editor refinements including Nvidia Open Automate integration   Mobile improvements including DrawTimer for indicating busy status Better save game encryption Better ipod background music support SMS and Mail dialog support […]

For those of you that are regular readers of this site, you have probably noticed I am a big fan of Safari Books Online, a subscription based book service.  They released a iOS application a year or so back and it was … lacking.  Android subscribers though were left completely in the dark.  There was […]

  Google’s cross platform PlayN game library has just released version 1.4.  PlayN enables you to target desktop, iOS, Android, HTML5 and Flash using a single Java code base.     Details of this release:     PlayN 1.4 highlights: – You can now find out when your Android or iOS game is paused and […]

  I wrote earlier about getting PssStudio ( now PsmStudio ) running on Windows 8, but at the time I could not get it to actually debug on my Vita or run the simulator.  Both of these issues were caused by the same thing, the failed Vita driver install.   In the end, there was […]

Sony have just announced the release of a new version of the PlayStation Mobile SDK, with the following new features: In-App Purchase library Digital Signature & Encryption library for content protection GamePad support for UI Toolkit library ModelViewer for previewing .mdx files on PC 50+ bug fixes   The is a guide on moving to […]