The HeroEngine is making waves in MMO development circles these days, primarily as a result of BioWare's having used it to build Star Wars: The Old Republic. Idea Fabrik says thousands of would-be ...

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, ...

In the press release for the announcement, you mention that the product will help developers make games more quickly. Isn't it a given that massively multiplayer games have lengthy development cycles?

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, ...

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 ...

Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare's upcoming MMO based on the Star Wars license, will use Simutronic's HeroEngine. Simutronics is known as one of the leading creators of online game development ...

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 ...