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Google Launching New Gaming Features at Game Developers Conference
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-03-18 09:27
Google will announce that it is expanding multiplayer capabilities to support iOS as well as adding new developer dashboard tools.
Google is launching myriad new gaming capabilities for Android fans as well as expanded new capabilities for Android game developers at this week's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
Unity's new weapon for devs: Porting games to Firefox
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-03-18 09:23
Mozilla has teamed up with Unity to run its games on the Web without plugins -- but with an add-on.
Announced at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, the extension will ship later this year with the anticipated Unity 5.0. Powered by the Web graphics library WebGL and the JavaScript subset asm.js, the add-on update says more about game developer's faith in Firefox than anything else.
Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-13 01:26
Today, Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform for gaming by providing a sneak peek of Epic’s Soul and Swing Ninja demos, running in Firefox at near-native speeds. This video is the first glimpse of Unreal Engine 4 running on the Web without plugins.
Valve DNS privacy flap exposes the murky world of cheat prevention
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-02-18 06:45
Like most online game makers, Valve uses a cheat detection system to protect popular multiplayer games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 from hacks that would give a player an unfair advantage. That Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system was at the center of a potential privacy bombshell earlier today, with accusations that the system was sending Valve a list of all the domains that a system has visited whenever a protected game was played.
Flap no more: Google, Apple rejecting flappy-branded games
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-02-17 13:44
Flappy Bird knock-offs proliferated almost as soon as Flappy Bird became a (blessedly short-lived) phenomenon, and it seems that Apple and Google are both fighting back. The companies have started rejecting submissions with the word "flappy" in their names, reports TechCrunch, citing tweets from developers.
Games are being rejected from the Apple store with the company saying that they're attempting to "leverage a popular app." Google, more obtusely, is rejecting flappy applications from the Play Store as "spam."