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Worms World Party for N-Gage! |
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005 |
Worms World Party for N-Gage is shipping this week. Read the entire press release if armed worms is your thing.
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005 |
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Perhaps not Java, but the new Tomb Raider: Legend site went live today. According to the Press Release your more than welcome to view Lara in full 3D and turn her around to ehm..."whet your appetite". |
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Interview with Kurt Uhlir |
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
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GameDAILY Biz have an interview with the co-founder of the new "Mobile
Game Development SIG" Kurt Uhlir. Ever wondered why anyone would need
a Sspecial Intrest Group for Mobile Game Developers? Read the interview here. |
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PAC-MAN™: Ghosts & Gobblin' |
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
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Today it's 25 years since the original Pac-Man arcade machine was
releasd. Today Pac-Man is more popular than ever. Last year it was the
best selling game on the majority of mobile phone operators, in Europe,
Middle-East and Africa! Read the press release here! |
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Help Chet and make Java perform better! |
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Wednesday, 06 April 2005 |
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Chet over at Sun would like to know how they should optimise Java further. Fill out this survey and help the busy devs making Java better! |
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'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' hits No.1 In The UK Mobile Charts |
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Monday, 04 April 2005 |
The TV-Show spin off hit #1 position in the UK charts for february, after just
3 months. "The phenomenal success of the Millionaire Java game is
testament to
the enduring resonance of the brand and its ability to work on multiple
platforms with vast numbers of people..."
Read the press release here... |
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The Lightweight Java Game Library v.096 Released! |
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Sunday, 03 April 2005 |
The
release includes AWT support and expanded DevIL and FMOD support.
Read more at lwjgl.org |
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Interview with Wendell T. Hicken at arstechnica.com |
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Sunday, 03 April 2005 |
Not really Java but still an intresting article on how "Schorched Earth" was written back in 1991.
Read the interview here |
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Friday, 01 April 2005 |
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Oddlabs released their title Tribal Trouble today! It's a 3D realtime
strategy game, you can play against the AI or online against humans!
And the loveley thing is all made in Java!
Head over to
Oddlabs and download the demo! |
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Doom for Java enabled phones |
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Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
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Id software's legendary programmer John Carmack is working on DoomRPG, a scaled down version of Doom for J2ME enabled devices. Read more at Carmack's blog |
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Robocode has gone open source! |
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Wednesday, 23 March 2005 |
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The cute Java teaching tool, that lets java class robots battle it out is now open source!
Read more at
Robocode hompage |
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Games for cell phones have become big business. |
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Sunday, 20 March 2005 |
Wireless firms earned $350 million in game downoads in 2004, a 250
percent increase over the prior year, according to analyst firm IDC.
Read More at Newsweek. |
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JDG* seeks bad code for good time |
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Saturday, 19 March 2005 |
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Chet over at Sun's Java2D department have an intresting proposal, if you have some open source code he could look at.
Go to Chet's Blog to see the latest news on this project. |
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Interview with Chet Haase at javahispano.org |
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Saturday, 19 March 2005 |
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Chet is an engineer on the Java2D team at Sun Microsystems, and spends
most of his time working on hardware acceleration issues. He is also
the engineering lead for the next release of J2SE (6.0) and has written
several articles for magazines like Java Developer's Journal.
Read the interview here |
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