Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 2 Released
Want a little extra spice in your development life? Does juggling live hand grenades, chainsaws and lit dynamite sound like a fun way to spend the afternoon? Then have I got news for you! Unreal...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.1p3
Remember when you used to wait months to years for updates for your game engine? Isn’t competition a wonderful thing? Along with today’s Unreal Preview release we get word of the new weekly Unity...
View ArticleValve Release Steam Link SDK
This news comes via Gamasutra, Valve Software release their Steam Link SDK on Github. SteamLink is a Linux powered box that enables you to stream your Steam library directly to your TV like you...
View ArticleNew Xenko/Paradox3D Update Released
An update for the Xenko (previously Paradox) game engine was released today. Relatively minor, mostly a fix release. Details from the release:Async DebuggingThere were some problems debugging async...
View ArticleNew Corona Plugin adds Facebook Ad Network Support
Corona Labs have released a new plugin for Corona, their Lua based mobile game SDK. The plugin adds support for Facebook Audience Network, which is basically Facebook’s ad network.From the plugin...
View ArticleCRYTEK Launch VR First Initiative
Crytek, makers of the CRYENGINE game engine, have just announced a new VR focused education initiative. They will be partnering with select educational institutions giving full source code access as...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.11 Preview 3 Released
Unreal have released another preview release of Unreal Engine, this release is 4.11 preview 3.The release has the following fixes:Fixed! UE-24810 Exponential Height Fog is not workingFixed! UE-25137...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.1p4
As always the patch can be downloaded here. This patch contains:ImprovementsDocumentation: In the scripting API, added information to Graphics.SetRenderTarget() and CommandBuffer.SetRenderTarget()...
View ArticleOpenTK is Kinda Sorta... Dead
This news came to me from cra0zy on Twitter and it’s a bit of a bummer. OpenTK, a popular set of OpenGL bindings for .NET languages is currently dead. The original founder walked away from the...
View ArticleCocos2D-x v3.10 Released
Cocos2D-X, the popular cross platform C++ 2D game library, just released version 3.10. If you are interested in learning more, I have a full Cocos2D-x tutorial series available here. From the release...
View ArticleCorona Release Auto Complete Package for The Atom Editor
Corona Labs just released a Corona SDK auto complete package for the popular Atom text editor.From the release:We would like to announce the immediate availability of a code completion package for the...
View ArticleKode Studio 16.1 Released–An IDE for Kha Development
Kode Studio 16.1 was just released, a fork of the Visual Studio Code editor specifically modified to work with the Kha library for Haxe. Eventually Kode Studio should be useful as an IDE for general...
View ArticleAllegro 5.1.13 WIP Released
Allegro, a C++ based game programming library just released version 5.1.13 WIP, so I would assume the WIP tag means you can expect a few more hiccups than normal. Allegro holds an interesting place...
View ArticleUnity Switch From Phong to GGX
Phong shading has been somewhat the gold standard as far as game engines go. The Phong algorithm, named after founder Bui Tuong Phong, is an algorithm for how light interacts with a 3D surface. With...
View ArticleBanshee Engine v0.2 Released
This one comes care of /r/gamedev and I have to say on first glance I am rather impressed. This is a C++ based open sourced game engine with a WYSIWYG editor and C# scripting support. A look at this...
View ArticleGodot Engine 2.0 Beta Released
I’ve been waiting on this one for a while, Godot 2.0 has finally been released in beta form.Never one for ... lengthy release notes, this release is not exception:After a long, long time in...
View ArticleBonus Tools Released For Maya LT
Maya LT, the stripped version of Maya aimed at indie game developers, just got a version of the Bonus Tools, previously available only for the full release of Maya. From the Autodesk blog:Are you a...
View ArticleRoboVM 1.13 Released
RoboVM just release version 1.13.0 adding Twitter Fabric support. RoboVM is a virtual machine that enables you to run Java JVM applications on iOS devices and is commonly used to power LibGDX games...
View ArticleAMD Launch GPUOpen
AMD announced the launch of the GPUOpen initiative. It is essentially a collection of code, documentation and tools for accessing modern day GPUs. Although they may not be winning too many battles...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.2p1
Another week another Unity patch. Windows version available here, while the Mac version is available here. This one is composed of the usual assortment of bug fixes and...
View Article