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 ...

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, ...

In the latest story in a painfully slow drip, Zenimax Online Studios, the new massively multiplayer cousin of Bethesda Softworks, has announced a partnership with Simutronics to license their ...

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 ...

Idea Fabrik’s HeroEngine is an integrated client and server platform for developing MMOs and virtual worlds. Its customers include the likes of EA and Above & Beyond. At the end of 2012, HeroEngine 2 ...

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 ...

If NASCAR star Tony Stewart has taught us anything, it’s that all it takes to become a hero is the right engine — and software firm Idea Fabrik thinks it has the right engine for indie 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 ...