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Unreal Engine 4.18 Released
Epic have released a Unreal Engine 4.8, with a massive number of new features and fixes. Without further ado, lets jump into the list of changes.Volumetric LightmapsImproved Static Skylight...
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Leadwerks Launch Enterprise Edition Game Engine
Leadwerks just announced the release of enterprise edition of the Leadwerks Game Engine. This release is targeted primarily towards “non-game” customers, seemingly being the same functionality wise as...
View ArticleGodot 3.0 Alpha 2 Released
One more step on the road to the release of Godot 3.0, today we have the release of Godot 3.0 Alpha 2. The biggest feature of this release is of course the long awaited C# support, although be sure...
View ArticleGoogle Launch Poly–3D Model Repository
Google have just launched Poly, a giant repository of mostly free 3D models, aimed at AR and VR content creation. The site is available at https://poly.google.com/ with most models downloadable in OBJ...
View ArticleGodot 3.0 Switches to Bullet Physics
With the upcoming Godot 3.0 release, there is a pretty major change to the physics system within the engine. They have decided to replace the in-house physics engine with the open source Bullet...
View ArticleYoYoGames Release $39 GameMaker Creator Edition
YoyoGames, the creators of GameMaker Studio, just announced a new cheaper “Creator” edition. Creator edition is available for $39 per year on Windows and Mac ( each being a separate purchase per...
View Articlearticy:draft Importer Plugin For Unreal Engine Released
articy:draft is unique product for game developers to design and implement game details such as application flow, game inventory and character dialog trees. They have recently released a plugin...
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Amazon Release AR/VR Engine “Sumerian”
Today Amazon announced the preview release of their new AR/VR engine “Sumerian”. Sumerian consists of a web based editor for composing AR/VR scenes as well as a programming environment, either using a...
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Cocos Creator 1.7 Released
Today marks the release of Cocos Creator 1.7. Cocos Creator is a full suite 2D game engine built on top of the Cocos2d-x open source project. It provides a complete game editor and SDK for creating...
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Godot 3 Beta 1 Released
Following on the heels of Alpha 2 released the end of October, we are one step closer to a full Godot 3.0 release with today’s release of Godot 3 Beta 1. The major difference between beta and the...
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Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Released
Visual Studio 2017 15.5 has just been released with several new features and improvements. Performance optimizations were a big part of this release including a halving of the time required to open C#...
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Microsoft Launch SimplyGon Cloud
A year ago Microsoft acquired Simplygon, a polygon optimization tool. Back in May they announced that Simplygon connect was now free. Simplygon Connect is a web service you can use to upload your...
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AppGameKit 2017.12.12 Released
AppGameKit is a very beginner friendly game engine with a secondary C++ tier for those that want to get a bit more advanced. Today they announced the release of version 2017.12.12. For the record, I...
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GameMaker 2.1.3 Released
Version 2.1.3 of the GameMaker game engine was released today. GameMaker is a long running and popular cross platform 2D game engine recently featured in our Closer Look game engine series. This...
View ArticleGIMP 2.9.8 Released
A new version of the popular GIMP open source art package was released today. Version 2.9.8 contains several fixes and improvements, but the most visible to end users are the improved gradient tools....
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OctaneRender For Unity Released
OctaneRender is a GPU based renderer with plugins available for just about every popular 3D content creation package. Yesterday, they released a plugin for Unity. This enables you to renderer...
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ARCore Developer Preview 2 Released
Google have just released the second preview version of ARCore, their augment reality SDK. Augmented reality is really nothing new, it’s just bringing together camera, GPS, gyroscope and similar...
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Google Poly API Released
You may recall Google Poly, a large free repository of 3D models released earlier in November. Now Google have released a REST based API for programmatic access to the Poly database of models. You...
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Unity 2017.3 Released
The next major release of the Unity game engine is here, 2017.3. New features of this release include 360 degree video skybox support, new code organization functionally via assembly definition,...
View ArticleGoogle Make Major Changes To Play Store Requirements
Apple recently required all developers on the App Store submit their apps in 64-bit or be subject to removal. Google have just announced similar, but less draconian measure for their own Google Play...
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