One of the most popular open source game engines is Cocos2d-x, a cross-platform framework designed by Chukong Technologies and based on the Cocos2d engine for iOS. It works on a variety of platforms ...

Cocos2D is a game engine that works with various devices from PCs to smart phones. This engine supports the vast majority of the features needed to make wonderful 2D-based games; it even includes a ...

After the acquisition of Wonderland Software late in April, gaming giant Zynga (you might remember these folks for Farmville, among other things) announced they hired key contributors of the cocos2d ...

Let’s build a “Hello, World” Cocos2d-x project for an Android device. I prefer to do this via a command line since there are no Cocos2d-x project templates available via the Eclipse* IDE at the moment ...

China’s Chukong Technologies is spinning out its mobile services associated with its Cocos2d-x game engine as a separate company. Chukong makes and publishes its own mobile games such as Fishing Joy ...

Microsoft buying Skype for a cool 8.5b is not the only M&A news today. Online gaming giant Zynga announced that they had acquired Sapus Media which is owned by the two developers of the cocos2d gaming ...

Chukong USA, a division of China’s Chukong Technologies, said it is launching a live operations platform for the Cocos2d-x game engine that is used in a wide array of mobile games. Chukong is ...

Less than two weeks on from its last purchase UK based GodFinger studio Wonderland social gaming giant Zynga has made what is its thirteen acquisition within the last twelve months. This time, the ...

According to Chukong Technologies, over half of the top grossing mobile games in the Chinese market are developed using Cocos 2d-x, its free, open-sourced middleware. It's a mark both of how it ...

With the recent release of the free version of the Unreal Engine and the announcement of the free Source 2 Engine, you now have even more options for making your own games. But picking out the best ...