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 ...

One of the most expensive elements of modern game design is the creation of the artistry that immerses players in the virtual constructed realm of play. For the growing world of augmented reality ...

In addition to several new additions coming to Android 12, Google is also revamping the gaming experience with the new update. Known as Game Dashboard, this feature is based on the platform’s new Game ...

A recently discovered hole in Valve’s API allowed observers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for thousands of Steam games. While Valve has now ...

We have heard time and again how both next-generation game consoles will finally leverage solid state drive (SSD) storage to vastly improve game loads and virtually eliminate in-game transitions, but ...

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, ...