With Opera GX, Opera has adapted its proven, innovative web browser to expand its footprint in gaming. Players also get access to GX Corner, a unique Opera GX feature with a game release calendar, information about games on sale and gaming-news. With its set of unique features including RAM, CPU and network bandwidth limiters, as well as a unique, gaming-themed look and feel including adaptive background music, Opera GX is the perfect fit for players in the Epic metaverse. Oslo, Janu– Opera GX joins the Epic Games Store, becoming the first web browser for gamers available in the store. “And now we can’t wait to see them arrive much sooner.Opera GX – the world’s only browser for gamers – debuts on the Epic Games Store “We have always had big plans for improving GameMaker across all platforms, both from the perspective of improving accessibility and further developing the features available to commercial studios,” Stuart Poole, General Manager of YoYo Games said. Does Opera want a similar offering for Opera GX users? Or does it want to follow companies like Epic Games, which owns the popular Unreal Engine? For now, we can only speculate. Many companies, including Google, Microsoft and Amazon, see streaming as the future of browser-based gaming. “We look forward to further growing Opera GX and to driving the growth of GameMaker, making it more accessible to novice users and developing it into the world’s leading 2D game engine used by commercial studios,” Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browsers at Opera teased in a blog post.īut what’s the end goal here? It’s hard to say. Opera says it will create a new division, sensibly called Opera Gaming, by combining the Opera GX and GameMaker teams.

Its headline feature is a slide-out control panel that lets you limit the browser’s bandwidth and see which tabs are demanding the most CPU and RAM resources. The gamer-focused web browser was launched in early access back in June 2019. Opera has bought the company for a simple reason: Opera GX.

A bunch of indie gems have been created with the software, including Spelunky and Hotline Miami. GameMaker supports every major platform including PC, mobile and Nintendo Switch. It works well with 2D projects and has an approachable drag-and-drop interface, along with its own scripting language that can be used to build more advanced titles. The latter is a hugely popular platform for novice game developers with little programming experience. But that’s exactly what Opera has done with YoYo Games, a British team best known for GameMaker Studio 2. It’s not often that a browser company acquires a game development platform.

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