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Cocos2D 2.0 available now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 9th, 2012)

After months of testing, the team behind the latest version of the extremely popular Cocos2D game engine for iOS has released version 2.0 of the framework, and it's available for download right now. The framework isn't completely compatible with version 1.0, so devs currently using the previous ...

Daily iPad App: Fibble is Crytek's entry onto iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2012)

If you had told me, just a couple of years ago, that Epic and Crytek would both have iOS apps in the store, I'm not sure I would have believed you. The Unreal Engine is one of the most popular graphical engines for major high resolution games, but Crytek is also very popular for its graphical ...

Unity 3.5 available now, with new effects and performance updates

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2012)

There are quite a few ways to make and build iPhone and iPad apps and games, but one of the most popular tools to create iOS games is the Unity engine, and that system has released version 3.5. The new version offers a number of improvements and upgrades, with lots of new particle and lighting and ...

WWDC 2010: GameSalad brings game creation to everyone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 15th, 2010)

I've seen GameSalad around before (they had a big booth at this year's MacWorld, and we've mentioned them here on TUAW a few times), but I've never actually spoken to anyone who works for the Austin, TX based company. Fortunately, senior platform director Michael Herring found some time to come say ...

Phoenix Wright, Hexen II coming to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2010)

Good news for fans of good games: the terrific DS courtroom simulator (which, trust me, sounds much less fun than it actually is) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney is coming to the iPhone, and Slide to Play has posted some hands-on video. The game takes the two DS screens and stacks them on top of ...

John Carmack id tech 5 demo from WWDC

by Mike Schramm (Jun 13th, 2007)

Here's the demo of id tech 5, id Software's new graphical engine, running on a Mac at the WWDC keynote. It looks very nice (it should, at 20gb of textures), and Carmack says the engine will allow programmers to come in and get the game right first, and then let their artists loose on it. Levels ...

Opera 9 goes Universal

by David Chartier (Jun 20th, 2006)

Opera, the little browser that could (and did - go free, that is), has finished its beta and reached version 9, going Universal in the process. New features include: a built-in BitTorrent client adding your favorite search engines to Opera's search bar simply by right-clicking them ...