Let’s look at the most important package you’ll be dealing with when writing games with Mobile Internet Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0: the package javax.microedition.lcdui.game. In this chapter, I show ...

Mobile gaming can be a finicky thing. Not only does any title have to account for varying screen resolutions and multiplayer play, but with such a saturated device market, being able to take a game ...

Getting out of the IT weeds and into profitable up-the stack use-cases is a goal at many enterprises. This trend seems to be extending all the way to Application Program Interfaces where the old ...

Google wants to help developers build the next Pokémon Go. The company announced that it's opening Google Maps to game developers who want to use its data to build location-based games similar to ...

One of the best features of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S has arrived on PC and will eventually pay dividends to owners of fast storage devices. Microsoft's DirectStorage API, announced in ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Although Akamai sounds a lot like it could be a Japanese games developer company, the organisation is ...

It would both be a groundbreaking moment for PlayStation fans – and doom for PlayStation’s own game studios. There seems to be credible proof that a Halo game is on the way to PlayStation. As a quick ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As Facebook has been colonizing the planet, approaching a billion users for its social network, Zynga has been drafting in its wake. The social-gaming company, which launched July 1, ...

If all goes to plan, Microsoft’s next-gen API will usher in a new standard for visuals and performance across a whole range of devices, from high-end PCs, to modest laptops, to even the Xbox One. But ...