Mobile games are main income for developers
Monday, September 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
Mobile games continue to be the primary source of income for mobile app developers. According to the numbers presented by NoKyc.com, mobile games are expected to account for 52.2% of all downloads in both major app stores in 2024.
Mobile users are expected to download 150.4 billion games in 2024
Mobile phone users are more likely to download games than a...
Game technology report from Perforce reveals role of game engines
Thursday, September 5, 2024 by Austin Harris
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security and governance at scale along the development lifecycle, announces the release of the 2024 State of Game Technology Report. This year's study, conducted in collaboration with JetBrains - a global software company specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhanci...
Madden NFL MCS 25 to be hosted on Challengermode
Thursday, August 22, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
Esports platform Challengermode has been selected as the platform to operate all the online competitions for the Madden NFL 25 Championship Series (MCS). With six tournaments and more than $1.7 million USD on the line, the MCS delivers elite football esports action on the virtual gridiron from August through February.
Beginning on August 14th, eligible Madden NFL 25 ...
Blizzard developers form union with WoW Game Makers Guild
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Christian Hargrave
Over 500 workers at the World of Warcraft development team have joined the Communications Workers of America and Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment has recognized their union. The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild - CWA Union (WoWGG-CWA), which includes designers, engineers, producers, artists, quality assurance testers, and other game developers, is the firs...
Royal Revolt Warriors coming to PC
Monday, July 29, 2024 by Austin Harris
The developer Upright Games is starting a new chapter in the popular Royal Revolt series: With Royal Revolt Warriors, the German developer will bring familiar characters from the successful mobile games series into a new PC adventure.
Royal Revolt Warriors: A top-down roguelite with co-op mode coming to PC
In Royal Revolt Warriors, players will reunite with t...
GameMaker free access sparks wave of new users
Thursday, July 18, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
More aspiring young game developers than ever are starting their game design journeys with GameMaker after access to the platform was made free for non-commercial users to create and share games late last year.
The latest GameMaker user survey has found that the percentage of new 13-17-year-old users has rocketed by two-thirds (63%) since access was made free. At the...
Gemini in Android Studio announced by Google
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
Google has released Gemini in Android Studio, introducing an AI-powered enhancement to the Android app development workflow. It utilizes the advanced Gemini 1.0 Pro model, tailored for programming-related tasks, to provide substantial support in several key areas:
Code completion boost: By analyzing your code, Gemini offers precise completions and multi-line sugge...
App Builder Design contest from Infragistics
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Infragistics, the provider of tools and solutions for app design and development, has announced a new App Builder Design Contest where developers, designers and non-designers alike can unleash their creativity and win prizes. The competition provides participants with free access to the App Builder drag & drop tool, which allows designers and developers to...
Using app gamification to get more people outdoors
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 by Richard Harris
Chimani is proud to roll out its most significant update to its popular gamification app for exploring our country’s vast number of parks and public lands! The new version has been rebuilt from the ground up with a completely redesigned user interface. It also features expanded content with the inclusion of state parks, national forests, and wildlife refuges....
SaaS company receives $27M in funding
Monday, November 15, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
Swimm announced a $27.6 million Series A funding round to enable engineering teams to create documentation that is always up to date. The round, which brings Swimm's total funding to $33.3 million, was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Dawn Capital, alongside existing seed investors Pitango...
Uptodown: An alternative to Google Play
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 by Richard Harris
The Uptodown app market has more than 130 million active users per month, and more than 450 monthly downloads of their more than 4 million APKs available. The company operates worldwide and it is localized to 15 different languages. The Spanish-based company was born in 2020 in Málaga and founded as a University Project in 2002. Recently we intervi...
Popular RPA launches free version for devs, SMBs, and students
Monday, March 11, 2019 by Richard Harris
Automation Anywhere has eliminated the barriers to RPA adoption (Robotic Process Automation) for small businesses, developers and students, by providing unfettered access to the only true digital workforce platform. Beginning now, users of the Community Edition will have access to the full suite of Automation Anywhere products, including RPA, IQ Bot (AI), Bot Insig...
IoT edge developers can now test drive Greenwave's AXON Predict
Monday, November 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
Greenwave Systems, Inc. announced the availability of its Edge Developer Portal. The portal gives free access to a fully-functional trial version of AXON Predict, the company's edge analytics solution, along with supporting resources. The AXON Predict portal offers IoT edge developers a quick and efficient way to connect, process and benefit from critical data flowi...
Alexa will soon be featured on the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
The new Fire HD 8 has been announced by Amazon and comes equipped with always-ready, hands-free access to Alexa. With hands-free mode, Alexa is always ready to respond - Alexa can start a video call with family, play music, launch games, read Audible books, and more. The Fire HD 8 also includes an HD 720p front-facing camera and up to 10 hours of mixed use battery life....
Get your free developer package from Pusher and SendGrid
Monday, June 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pusher released the Pusher Developer Package. This pack is aimed at developers and will offer them free access to 13 key services they need for building great applications. Pusher is joined in this project by great service suppliers like Algolia, Auth0, ButterCMS, Chargebee, Cloudflare, Codeship, DataDog, DigitalOcean, Instabug, MongoDB, Mux.com, Nexmo, and SendGrid.The...
Adobe reveals new XD CC Starter Plan
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The free Starter plan for Adobe XD includes XD for Mac and Windows, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and services to empower users to design, prototype and share user experiences with colleagues. Adobe XD is a cross-platform experience design platform to combine both design and prototyping.The XD CC Starter plan gives professional and aspiring designers, teams and stude...
IBM upgrades its qubit processing systems for commercial use
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM announced two significant quantum processor upgrades for its IBM Q early-access commercial systems. These upgrades represent rapid advances in quantum hardware as IBM continues to drive progress across the entire quantum computing technology stack, with focus on systems, software, applications and enablement. The first IBM Q systems available online to c...
Reward videos for mobile ads payoff the best says Tapjoy
Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Consumers want their apps free and their ads rewarded. A new study by Tapjoy, a mobile advertising platform, found that mobile gamers in the US prefer opt-in, rewarded advertisements over mandatory ads such as pre-roll videos by a 4-to-1 margin. The study also found that videos are far and away consumers’ favorite type of rewarded ads on mobile - preferred by at l...
Why software is no longer being written from scratch
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Application developers are increasingly reliant on open source component parts because pre-fabricated components speed up innovation and save developers the time (and money) of having to write code from scratch.But with 6.1% of component downloads containing a known security vulnerability it’s inevitable that defective parts will make their way into production – especia...
SAP HANA express edition and key benefits developers should know about
Saturday, October 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP, a large independent software developer, has released it's latest edition of HANA, an in-memory computing PaaS, called HANA express edition. SAP HANA can be used as an on-premise appliance, or for building and deploying to the cloud. A great tool for any real-time application development or analytics projects. The SAP HANA express edition gives developers all of th...
BitTitan and Dropbox Aim to Make IT Service Providers More Profitable
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
BitTitan has announced its go-to-market alliance with Dropbox is now globally available to IT and managed service providers. While most cloud migrations are complex and time consuming, BitTitan and Dropbox have formed a strategic alliance to simplify and accelerate the process of data migration into Dropbox Business. Available now, current BitTitan partners can enh...
Intercede Releases New High Level Mobile Security Solution
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Intercede has released RapID, a security solution that delivers password and token free access to cloud services from mobile applications. In addition, RapID incorporates PKI based authentication and encryption to provide security for business and consumer applications. The solution is designed to establish trusted relationships between end users and services providers ...
New uTest Community Offers QA and QE Software Testing Network
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Matt Johnston from Applause to learn more about how their new uTest serves to provide QA and QE professionals world-wide with job seeking tools and networking connections to help advance their careers. Johnston is Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at Applause and has more than a decade of marketing experience at companies ranging from...
Boost App Advertising Revenue by Prioritizing the User Experience
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Josh Speyer
App developers’ strongest revenue stream comes from the advertising real estate and the user eyeballs they can offer, which means that it is vital to deliver targeted audience segments and an ad experience designed to facilitate engagement and, eventually, a purchase or conversion. A solid record of performance will keep your current advertising partners happy and attra...
Panasonic to Provide Royalty Free Access to its Internet of Things Technology
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Panasonic has announced that it will provide royalty-free access to its software, patents and experience from its product ecosystem for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) software and service.The company plans to make available for royalty-free use its mature and tested device-to-cloud software technology, currently employed in home monitoring systems, solar en...
Acision Launches New Developer Portal for WebRTC and IP Services
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has announced the availability of a new self-service developer portal for its forge by Acision communication platform to give developers the ability to inject smart communication features into their iOS/Android applications and services from the cloud. The forge communications framework provides the ability to integrate SMS, IP messaging, notification...
Xamarin to Give Students Free Access to Xamarin Studio to Develop iOS and Android Apps
Monday, November 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Xamarin is reaching out to students and teachers in the higher education community with three new programs to access Xamarin products.For students, Xamarin is launching a new program that will allow students who are currently enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting course of study, to develop iOS apps and Android apps in C# using a free version of Xamarin Studio. Stude...
ActiveState's Stackato PaaS Now Provides Free 20GB Cluster For Your Apps
Friday, August 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you develop using ActiveState we found some freebies for you! They are now providing a free 20GB cluster for commercial web and mobile apps. The company just launched free access to their PaaS Stackato: Clustering up to 20GB in production. ActiveState's free Micro Cloud license will enable access to Stackato clusters using up to 20GB of RAM, to open up accessibi...
Rackspace Announces Global Mobile App Challenge With $20,000 In Prizes
Monday, June 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
In order to inspire developers around the globe to be creative in architecting applications that solve pressing problems, Rackspace and ObjectRocket today announced the NoSQL Mobile App Challenge. Contestants will be tasked with building user-friendly mobile apps that have real world impact. To do this, they will have free access to various Rackspace technologies i...
Appcelerator Enterprise Apps Now Supported by Mocana Security Platform
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mocana has announced that enterprise mobile apps developed using the Appcelerator Platform or the Appcelerator Titanium mobile development environment are now MAP-Ready and supported by the Mocana Atlas platform. Apps built using either the Appcelerator Platform or Titanium environment can now be secured by the latest version of Mocana’s Mobile App Protection ...
Capturing Maximum Revenue From Your Mobile App
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Pedro Ripper
As with so many things assumed to be known and reliable before the digital era, consumer pricing strategies have been forever altered. Not only does fixed pricing often fail; it’s the consumers themselves who casually inform the seller what they are going pay. The seller, sadly, must deal with the results.Of course, many people choose to pay nothing at all. That’s an un...
Parse Announces New App User Analytics
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The folks at Parse have added two new components to their analytics platform: Data Analytics and Performance Analytics.On Parse developers can manage their collection in Parse’s Data Browser however if could be unclear how a collection grows over time. In the past, developers could see growth by manually filtering API requests on a particular class. With the new an...
Marmalade Launches Free Thought Leadership Webinar Series aimed at Game Developers
Thursday, January 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
16th January 2014: Marmalade Technologies Ltd, makers of the C++ cross-platform SDK, today announced the launch of The Marmalade Partner Webinar Series, which has been developed as an educational resource for game developers who are interested in learning about useful tools, strategies and tips to help them get the most out of their games.Each webinar is presented by a ...
Extreme Reality’s Extreme Motion SDK Comes to AngelHack Free
Thursday, December 5, 2013 by Richard Harris
Extreme Reality announced its partnership with AngelHack for the Barcelona (Nov. 23-24, 2013) and Silicon Valley (Dec. 7-8, 2013) AngelHack Hackthons. The partnership will facilitate the development of 3D motion control game or apps by providing developers unlimited free access to Extreme Reality’s Extreme Motion SDK, which supports Unity, C++ and ...
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Friday, November 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
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