App Game Kit 2017.02.28 Released
The Game Creators have released a new version of the App Game Kit beginner/indie focused game cross platform game engine. I featured App Game Kit in the Closer Look series if you are interested in...
View ArticleTextMesh Unity Plugin Now Free
Today at GDC, Unity have announced that the popular plugin Text Mesh is now available for free in the asset store, and soon will be directly integrated into Unity. TextMesh is an upgrade over Unity’s...
View ArticleBlender Release 2.78c
Today saw the release of a new version of Blender, although it is just a maintenance release. This one is entirely composed of fixes. From the release notes:Port all changes for automated Cycles...
View ArticleUnity Announce 5.6 and Unity 2017 Release Details
Today Unity had their GDC keynote presentation (available embedded below) and announced details of the final 5.x release, version 5.6 which is schedule to be released on March 31st. Details of the...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.4.4p4
Unity have just released another patch for the older 5.4 branch of Unity. Composed primarily of fixes, this patch also introduced ogg vorbis support on tvOS as well as the addition of...
View ArticleKotlin 1.1 Released
Kotlin is a new programming language created by JetBrains, the folks behind such great developer tools as IntelliJ, WebStorm and Resharper. It is a statically typed language the runs in the JVM, on...
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MonoGame 3.6 Released
MonoGame is a popular open source port of Microsoft’s now defunct XNA game framework. They just announced the release of version 3.6 containing several improvements and fixes. If you are interested...
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Microsoft Launch “XBox LIve Creators Program”
Today at GDC 17, Microsoft announced the preview launch of Xbox Live Creators Program. This is a new SDK and developer program that enables anyone to quickly publish their title to Xbox One or...
View ArticleCryEngine 5.3.3 Released
A new update has been released for CryEngine, bringing it to version 5.3.3. Primarily a bug fix release, it also adds a new C# game template Rolling Ball. From the release notes:Game Templates• New:...
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GitHub Release Unity Extension
GitHub is perhaps the most popular source repository available today, while Unity is the most used game engine available today. That said, neither ever worked particularly well with the other. Today...
View ArticleXenko Engine Pricing Sort Of Announced
The Xenko game engine (previously Paradox3D) has been in beta for a couple years now, available for free use in binary form, with GPL licensed source code available. If you are interested in learning...
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Spine Runtime for Unreal Engine Released
Esoteric Software, the makers of the 2D animation package Spine, have just released a runtime for Unreal Engine. This runtime will enable you to use Spine authored content directly in Spine, via both...
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GameMaker Studio 2 Released
Back in November of last year, YoyoGames launched the first beta for GameMaker Studio 2. Yesterday GameMaker Studio 2 was finally released. GameMaker is a cross platform 2D focused game engine first...
View ArticleGideros Mobile 2017.3 Released
Gideros Mobile just released version 2017.3. Gideros Mobile is an open source, cross platform, Lua powered game engine available for download here for Windows and Mac OS. This release brings plugin...
View ArticleGoogle Release GAPID–Graphics Api Debugger
A few days back Google released GAPID, Graphics API Debugger, which is open source and available on Github. GAPID is described as:GAPID is a collection of tools that allows you to inspect, tweak and...
View ArticleOpenFL 4.9.0 and Lime 4.0.0 Released
Two key Haxe libraries same new releases today, OpenFL 4.9.0 and Lime 4.0. Lime is a low level cross platform multimedia library, while OpenFL is a reimplementation of several Flash APIs used for...
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Wave Engine 2.3.1 Released
Wave Engine 2.3.1 was just released. Wave Engine is a C# powered cross platform 3D game engine I previously featured in the Closer Look series. The Wave Engine 2.3.1 released brings several new...
View ArticleCorona Labs Sold... Again
Corona Labs, the makers of the Corona SDK Lua powered game engine, have been sold to Appodeal, a mobile advertising firm. Back in November of 2015 Corona was acquired by Perk then in September of...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.5.2p3
Unity have released a new patch, this one bringing the Unity game engine to version 5.5.2p3. The patch is composed entirely of fixes including:Fixes(868587) - Animation : Fixed a race condition in...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.15.1 Hotfix Released
Epic have released a new hotfix for Unreal Engine, 4.15.1. This update is composed entirely of fixes, including:Fixed! UE-42385 Crash adding an AnimComposite to itselfFixed! UE-41929 Crash on...
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