Up until this year, game engines were not something most gamers had to give much thought to beyond the one or two seconds their logos might appear while a game was loading. That's why this news about ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

Opera Software is hinting it might integrate GameMaker Studio in some way with Opera GX, its browser for PC gamers, which can optimize your gaming sessions. Opera Software is signaling it has some big ...

Unity Technologies has announced new 2D tools and workflow for the Unity engine and editor for those who create 2D games. Now in beta, the first iteration of the 2D tools will be released with the ...

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the third dimension with Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos is including its first ...

Want to take a crack at making your own 2D game? These are the best tools for the job, even if you're a beginner. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

In the 1980s, people flocked to arcades to play Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger, Donkey Kong, and other games. These classics are still fun to play: If you’ve never played one of these arcade games, ...

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source ...

There are many game development engines out there, but Unity is arguably the most popular, especially among indie studios. However, Unity plans to change its pricing structure, including a new fee ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of products ...