Let's be frank, MMOs are a pain in the rear to design. You have large teams working collaboratively to build huge expanses of terrain, hundreds upon thousands of objects in the world that players can ...

Tech company Idea Fabrik has made live its new game development platform HeroEngine 2. Designed to create online games, the new version of the engine offers access to Idea Fabrik’s servers, and has be ...

Idea Fabrik's HeroEngine is now licensed by over 5000 developers, after surge of interest in MMO games. "In January we have been inundated with thousands of enquiries from studios, large and small, ...

Although quite a few online world gamers think the category is only about a decade old, the titles we know now are the result of an evolutionary process that actually began much earlier. For example, ...

It’s no surprise that the new Hero Cloud 2 online game engine introduces a wealth of new features. It is, after all, a major update to a well-established development platform. The motivation for ...

With the recent news that the hotly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic would be built with and run on HeroEngine, many gamers weren’t sure what to make of it. Licensing out engines is certainly ...

Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the most ambitious undertakings in video game history. When the game launched in December, it was the fruition of six years of work by as many as 800 developers ...

BioWare's to use an off-the-shelf engine for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the company's confirmed. The MMO will be built with Simutronics' HeroEngine, a dev kit specifically made for creating online ...

Look, we're sure you probably know HeroEngine primarily for being the metal beast under Star Wars: The Old Republic's figurative hood. Well, it does more than just power BioWare upcoming space opera ...

Gaithersburg, MD - Simutronics today announced a new licensing agreement for its groundbreaking HeroEngine with developer Pitch Black Games. The Chandler, Arizona based developer is currently ...