And that could begin an interesting test. Will the hundreds of millions of users who have embraced simple, two-dimensional games from social game makers such as Zynga also embrace games with great 3D ...

Explore lush 3D environments with the Avengina Project, a browser-based 3D graphics engine that runs off Java--not something you have to install. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers ...

Well it was only a matter of time before 3D made a push for the internet, as Mozilla revealed that it built a game on its 3D browser engine dubbed Gladius. Gladius is part of the company’s project ...

Don't believe WebGL is real? Here's how to try the 3D browser technology yourself. It works, but plenty of development is needed for this graphics foundation to mature. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Developed in-house at studios in San Francisco and Hamburg, Bigpoint’s first titles to support 3D technology are the post-apocalyptical action game “Ruined Online” and the high-speed racing adventure ...

In context: Unreal Engine is the standard for making AAA games, new indie sensations, or any other kind of interactive experience for a plethora of platforms. The latest version further pushes the ...

French company Stonetrip announced today that it has created tools to help developers create cool 3D games and apps on Google Android phones. The ShiVa 3D engine for Android will be released in a ...

The Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are well-known for bringing 3D gaming into the mainstream in a way that preceding consoles just couldn’t. The ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, is known for text ...

The Mozilla Foundation introduced a technology this week that it claims will allow game makers to supercharge the performance of their wares in a Web browser. The technology is a highly-optimized ...

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), this ...

Over the Edge has released Unity v1.5, a new version of their 3D gaming engine for Mac OS X. Unity is available in “Indie” and “Pro” versions for $249 and $1,499 respectively. It’s a free upgrade for ...

If you’ve ever played the classic shooter Wolfenstein 3D and thought that all that Nazi punishment would be fun IRL, a small telepresence startup has a nice compromise for you. Cardboard Wolfenstein ...