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Unity Launch New Interactive Tutorials
In the most recent release of Unity 2017.2 Beta, Unity added a new feature for interactive tutorials. Basically these are step by step beginner tutorials that run directly in the Unity engine and...
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Blender 2.8 Is Going To Be Epic
One very cool thing the Blender foundation have started doing is offering guidance and early builds of future releases. The next major update to Blender is Blender 2.8 and you can learn more about...
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Blender 2.79 Released
Today the Blender Foundation announced the release of Blender 2.79. Other than a load of bug fixes, there isn’t actually a ton in the release directly for game developers. Perhaps the biggest feature...
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Xenko 2.1 Released
The Xenko game engine just released version 2.1. This recently out of beta C# powered game engine just got a bunch prettier with several rendering improvements. The engine also gained the ability to...
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Defold Launch New Community Portal
The Defold Engine just got it’s own community hub, available at defold.com/community. In addition to the existing forums and social media pages, the community portal now includes an asset portal and a...
View ArticleXBOX UWP Games Get Tons Power
Some time back Microsoft launched the UWP, Universal Windows Platform, a target enabling you to create Windows store apps that could also be run on XBox One hardware. There was however a big catch,...
View ArticleLWJGL 3.1.2 Released
LWJGL, the Light Weight Java Game Library, just released version 3.1.2. LWJGL is a series of Java bindings for several underlying media APIs such as OpenGL, OpenAL and Vulkan. This release also added...
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SDL 2.0.6 Released
SDL 2.0.6 has been released. SDL, the Simple Directmedia Layer, is a low level C framework providing cross platform low level services for 2D game developers. SDL has been used for such titles as...
View ArticleAseprite 1.2 Released
Aseprite, a pixel based drawing and animation app, just released version 1.2. New features include pixel aspect ratios, gradients, reference layers and more. There were also several bug fixes and...
View ArticleKrita 3.3.0 Released
The popular open source painting package Krita just released version 3.3.0. Windows users can rejoice at this release for a couple of reasons, especially Surface users. This release gets support for...
View ArticlePlayCanvas Launch Augmented Reality Support
Augmented Reality (AR) seems to be the new hotness in game development, enabling applications to mix the real world and their game worlds together. PlayCanvas, a 3D HTML5 powered game engine we...
View ArticleDefold Engine 1.2.114
There is a new release of the Lua powered 2D Defold game engine, bringing the version to 1.2.114. If you’ve never heard of the Defold game engine we have a complete tutorial series to get you started,...
View ArticleCocos2d-x 3.16 Released
Cocos2d-x, the popular C++ port of the Cocos2D game framework, just released version 3.16. This release brings better support for Cocos Creator, which you can see in action in this video. The release...
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New Oculus Go, Big Price Cuts For Oculus Rift and DK2 Open Sourcing
At the annual Oculus Connect developer conference, there have been several announcements on the VR front. First is a pretty massive price cut to the existing Oculus Rift bundle, the second such price...
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Unity 2017.2 Released
Version 2017.2 of the Unity game engine was released today. 2D game tools received a lot of love in this release with new tiled based world building tools. Unity also teamed up with Autodesk to...
View ArticleDefold 1.2.115 Released
The Defold game engine received another update, this one bringing it to verison 1.2.115. New to this release is the ability to dynamically load/unload any factory resource. The engine also gained the...
View ArticleAllegro 5.2.3 Released
The Allegro framework just released version 5.2.3. Allegro is a C based media/game framework, very similar in scope to SDL or SFML. Allegro holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the...
View ArticleCocos Creator 1.6.2 Released
There is a new release of the free Cocos2d-x powered Cocos Creator game engine. If you are interested in learning more about Cocos Creator, be sure to check out our hands-on video available here or...
View ArticleRayLib 1.8 Released
RayLib is a free C library ideally suited towards beginners. They just released version 1.8 adding procedural image generation, 3D geometric primitives, PBR material support and more. If you are...
View ArticleLibGDX 1.9.7 Released
LibGDX have just released version 1.9.7. LibGDX is a popular open source Java based game framework, although releases have been somewhat infrequent of late. We have extensively covered it in the past...
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