April Free Unreal Engine Marketplace Content Released
Epic Games have released the April 2019 round of free content for Unreal Engine. Every month Epic releases new content free for Unreal developers from the Unreal Engine marketplace, that is completely...
View ArticleHumble Microsoft .NET Bundle
Humble are running another bundle of interest to game developers, especially C# developers. It’s the Humble Microsoft & .NET Bundle by APress which contains 3 tiers of programming books, many...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 Released
Today marked the release of Microsoft’s seminal IDE Visual Studio 2019. It is available for download right now at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. The community edition of Visual Studio...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.22 Released
Hot on the heels of their GDC 2019 keynote, Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.22 as promised. The star of the show is support for real-time ray and path tracing, the first game engine to offer...
View ArticleHumble 8Bit Pixel Art and Boss Fight Books Bundles
Humble are currently running two new bundles of interest to game developers. The first is the Humble 8-Bit Pixel Game Dev Bundle and the second is Humble Book Bundle: Classic Video Games by Boss...
View ArticleClickteam Fusion 2.5 DLC Update
Clickteam Fusion is an easy to use game engine behind games such as Five Nights at Freddie’s and The Escapists. We previously featured Clickteam in our “Closer Look” series a few years back....
View ArticleBlender Cloud Free Month Trial And Hands On Preview
The Blender Foundation recently released their new animated short Spring, a completely open film that is used to push development of Blender forward. Along side the Spring release, they are also...
View ArticleUnity Experimental Raytracing Release
Raytracing was one of the stars of GDC 2019 this year, with both Unreal and Unity announcing DXR support. Unreal Engine support was available almost immediately with the release of Unreal Engine 4.22....
View ArticleUnity 2019.1 Released
Hot on the heels of their 2019 GDC presentation, Unity 2019.1 was released today. The 2019.1 release saw several of the key pieces of technology announced back in 2018.1 finally come of age, losing...
View ArticleAppGameKit Studio Beta
The Game Creators are working on a successor to their game framework AppGameKit, previously reviewed here. The new product AppGameKit Studio builds on the existing framework while building a complete...
View ArticleGB Studio Released
GB Studio was just released. It’s an open source MIT licensed game engine for creating top down JRPG style games for the Gameboy. Capable of generating ROMs that can be run in an emulator, as well as...
View ArticleGDevelop 5 Beta 66 Released
GDevelop, the open source 2d game engine I dubbed “the Ultimate Beginner Engine” just had another release, bringing it to version 5.0 beta 66. This release brings several new features including new...
View ArticleGLFW 3.3 Released
GLFW just saw release 3.3, the first release for this graphics framework in over 2 years. GLFW is a companion framework to graphics libraries like OpenGL and Vulkan, providing the missing features...
View ArticleHumble Full-Stack Web Development Bundle
The folks over at Humble are running another bundle of interest to developers, especially those working on web games. They are running the Humble Full-Stack Web Development Bundle, a collection of...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.22.1 Released
Epic Games have released a hotfix version of Unreal Engine, the first since the release of Unreal 4.22. This version is composed entirely of bug fixes. For details of the new features that were added...
View ArticleHumble Python Books by O’Reilly Bundle
There is another Humble Bundle of interest to developers, especially those interested in learning or using the Python programming language. The Humble Book Bundle: Python by O'Reilly is a collection...
View ArticleCocos Creator 2.1.1 Released
When Cocos Creator 2 was released, a major new feature was the new 3D renderer under the hood. The 2.1.1 release starts to take advantage of that new functionality with a new 3D scene editor, a game...
View ArticlePixiJS v5 Released
The PixiJS HTML5 2D rendering library just had their first release in almost 2 years, with the release of PixiJS v5. PixiJS is an open source, MIT licenses library available here on Github.The v5...
View ArticleUnreal Engine Free Stuff For May 2019
Starting toward the end of 2018, Epic Games started giving away free developer content from the Unreal Engine marketplace, free for that month. This May is no exception, with several new assets...
View ArticleOGRE 1.12 Released
OGRE, Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine, an open source MIT licensed 3D renderer just released version 1.12 after almost a year in development. The release is heavily focused on internal...
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