Updates

If you have arrived here it’s because you have also experienced the gaming cramps. It’s not unusual for gamers the need to stop playing in order to flex your hands and your wrists to stop the cramping. Gaming is responsible of a lot of stress on your hands and wrists and it can result in pain and some injuries.

Numb fingers, throbbing wrists… And you start thinking you might have carpal tunnel. Don’t worry, that’s likely not the issue even when the symptoms are quite similar to that and tendonitis: numbing, wrist pain, tingling and even a little bit of swelling.

Luckily for you, we’ve got some hand exercises you need to start practicing if you want to break free from that pain and to be able to play for hours without having to stop to stretch.

Depending on the way players interact with a game, this game will be assigned to a category or genre or to another. This way, the first thing you need to understand is that games are not classified the same way as books or movies, since games do not depend on the content or the scenario but it depends strongly on the player’s activity.

If you were to ask us what is a video game genre we would answer that is a category of games that share similar gameplay features or what is the same: that share how the player exists in the game’s world. To better understand this concept, we will next explain the most popular video games genre that exist. Let’s go!

Even if computers may look to you very different, the components installed are quite standard, being the major difference among most machines the brand of the hardware they have installed. This way, even if the brand changes, the main hardware components –video card, processor, memory, motherboard and hard drive- are always the same for all computer systems.

Unity3D update

A few days ago the update 4.6 of Unity 3D was released. According to the Unity 3D blog, one of the biggest changes on this update was the implementation of a new UI. This new UI is also available as source-code, as it was promised before by the Unity3D team because of their Open-Source Initiative.

With the new update also more options became available to make games more compatible with the new rules and protocols of Google and Apple. For example, now there’s x86 support for Android, so to develop your project now you can choose between FAT, x86 or ARMv7. This is important if you’re looking to develop apps for the Nexus Player, since it requires the build to be x86.

It was also mentioned that because of Apple’s latest announcement that said that starting on February, all apps must have 64-bit support, Unity3D already promised an update to cover this issue. We just don’t know if it will be as 4.x or if we’re seeing this on the new Unity3D 5.

When more news come up about this issue, we’re sure to let you know!

The CryEngine is one of the most powerful tools we can find to develop games. It’s not the easiest of the engines to develop games, especially if you’re a one man team, however the results can be seen on every AAA games that were released with this engine, such as the Crysis trilogy, State of Decay, Enemy Front, among others.

Oculus Rift is the next technology devices that is conquering the hearts of both players and developers. At this day it’s the closest device that we have that allows us to enter inside a VR world through games and apps.

And there are great news related to both the Oculus Rift device and the programming platform Unity 3D. It is true that there were already some games for Oculus Rift there were developed on Unity 3D engine, but the Unity team has annouced that they were going to officially and natively support the Oculus Rift device!