No vendor “owns” the metaverse, which will ideally become a loosely coupled ecosystem of hardware, software and infrastructure providers.Read More
Tag: developers
How Apple and app developers will try to entice you to subscribe, not just pay once
Apple introduces a revised Mac App Store at WWDC 2018 in San Jose, California. (credit: Valentina Palladino) For a while now, Apple has been encouraging app developers to consider subscriptions as a key revenue source, and the company is introducing some new options for developers that it hopes will make the option more attractive. In […]
PS4, Xbox AND Nintendo Switch treated to new games from Apex Legends developers?
It looks like Respawn Entertainment – the developers behind Apex Legends – is launching two new games this year. Both are expected to arrive on PS4 and Xbox One, but there are also growing hopes that a new game might reach Nintendo Switch too. It was recently announced by EA that Respawn is in charge […]
Facebook “weaponized“ user data, app developer’s new lawsuit claims
Enlarge / Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018, in Washington, DC. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) In recent weeks, a dust-up between the maker of a forgotten Facebook bikini app and […]
Jam City lays off a number of game developers
Fresh off the acquisition of two games, casual game publisher Jam City laid off a number of employees.Read More
The DeanBeat: How game developers can drive our platforms forward
Niantic, Valve, and Epic Games share something in common. They’re all game developers who can push technology platforms forward.Read More
JPMorgan is poaching developers who work on video games like Fortnite — and they say it’s ‘actually been very easy’ to lure them away (JPM)
Fortnite/Epic Games JPMorgan Chase co-president Gordon Smith said the bank is having no trouble competing for top tech talent to fuel its $ 10.8 billion digital ambitions. Smith said a number of software developers the bank has hired come from the video game world. How does JPMorgan get programmers to ditch Fortnite for mobile banking? […]
What developers say Apple needs to do to make the Apple TV a gaming console
Enlarge / The Apple TV 4K and remote. (credit: Samuel Axon) As we observed in our review last year, the Apple TV 4K has so much potential for gaming. Its hardware is actually pretty powerful given the type of device it is. It shares development tools and infrastructure with one of the most successful gaming […]
‘Netflix for Open Source’ Wants Developers to Get Paid
Startup Tidelift hopes payments will let coders keep projects patched and up to date. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ba569a8b1d78f2d745782d7/master/pass/opensource4opensource2-01.jpg
Twitter bug sent some DMs to developers for over a year
A bug in one of Twitter’s APIs may have caused unauthorized developers to receive some users’ direct messages and protected tweets. Twitter says it hasn’t yet discovered evidence that a developer actually received such data, nor does it believe that such information was misused, but can’t say for sure that it didn’t happen. We haven’t […]
