Want to take a crack at making your own 2D game? These are the best tools for the job, even if you're a beginner.

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is adding 3D to its open-source Cocos Creator 3.0.

Unity, the 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: official ...

GameMaker throws shade at Unity, makes its 2D engine free or $100 for most For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.

It’s not often that a browser company acquires a game development platform. But that’s exactly what Opera has done with YoYo Games, a British team best known for GameMaker Studio 2. The latter ...

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.

Dubbed 'Aves Engine', it enables developers to create games built on the 'open web stack' in 2D and 2.5D (pseudo-3D), utilizing modern web standards - HTML, CSS and JavaScript - and negating the ...

Often these tools are also available for free. To try to make things easier for those looking to get started making games, we’ve put together a list of 11 game engines / editors.