Java remains a powerful choice for building 2D games, thanks to its portability, robust libraries, and beginner-friendly frameworks. From mastering the game loop to rendering smooth graphics, ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...