Microsoft HoloLens Developer Pre-Orders Begin Tomorrow
Microsofts entrant into the VR field, the HoloLens, will begin taking developer pre-orders tomorrow for a healthy price tag of $3000USD. Ouch. First, let’s temper some expectations... this is very...
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Cocos Creator Now Available in Public Beta
Cocos Creator is a visual game creation system built over the Cocos2d-x game engine, enabling more visual development of 2D games. It is now available in public beta and can be downloaded here.From...
View ArticlejMonkeyEngine 3.1 Alpha 2 Released
jMonkeyEngine is a popular open source 3D game engine written in Java. I did a “Closer Look at” jMonkeyEngine earlier last year if you want more information. The big part of this release isn’t...
View ArticleRoboVM 1.14 Released
Joining the Evil Empire hasn’t had an immediate affect on the the RoboVM team, in fact, they just released a new version. RoboVM is the technology that enables you to run Java developed applications...
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Starling 2.0 Released
Starling is a flash based game engine, perhaps most famous for Angry Birds. For some time the primary maintainer has been quietly pounding away on the next version. Today (actually a couple days...
View Article3ds Max 2016 Service Pack 3 Released
Sp3 for 3ds Max 2016 has been released, updating the popular 3D content creation package.The service pack makes the following changes:Animation MAXX-24066 Changing Frame Rate Breaks Default...
View ArticleAMD Release OpenVX
As part of their recently launched GPUOpen collection, AMD have released a beta preview open source implementation of Khronos OpenVX. OpenVX is an API for computer vision. Features from this...
View ArticleUnity Patch 5.3.3p2 Released
Another Unity patch has been released, this one is Unity Patch 5.3.3p2. It contains the following new features, as per the release notes:ImprovementsAndroid: Audio - Don't select OpenSL output if the...
View ArticleMaxPlay Engine Announce Several Technology Partners
MaxPlay is an upcoming game engine that is focused on cloud based collaboration. So far they have been running mostly in stealth mode with very little information available. Today they announced...
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FMod Launch FMod.io–Cloud Based Sound Library
Today FMod had a pair of announcements. If you’ve never heard of it, FMod is probably the preeminent make of audio middleware for game development. The first announcement was the release of FMod...
View ArticleRPGMaker MV 1.1 Released
The venerable RPGMaker just released version 1.1 of RPGMaker MV. RPGMaker is a game engine specifically designed for creation roleplaying games, specifically JRPGs. To go along with the release they...
View ArticleTiled 0.15.2 Released
A new version of the popular open source Tiled Map Editor was released today, Tiled 0.15.2. Unless you happen to be Portuguese or Turkish (who received new translations in this update), there isn’t...
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Faceware Release New MoCap Software, Including A Free PLE Version
Faceware Technologies, a provider of “markerless” facial motion capture solutions used in games such as NBA2K16 and Destiny, just released new versions of their software, including a free PLE...
View ArticleNVidia Release VisionWorks OpenVX Implementation
Just last week AMD released AMDOVX, their implementation of the Khrono Group’s OpenVX computer vision standard. Today NVidia has followed suit with VisionWorks. OpenVX is intended to enable...
View ArticleNew Positional Audio Library for Torque2D
Torque2D, the open source 2D game engine created initially by Garage Games, just released an updated library for Torque2D. This update adds several new features including:Ability to set which...
View ArticleUnity Release Patch 5.3.3p3
Unity have released patch 5.3.3p3 for their popular Unity3D game engine. From the release notes, this patch changes:ImprovementsGlobal Illumination: When compositing the directional lightmap removed...
View ArticleCroTeam Open Source Serious Engine. Seriously.
CroTeam, the makers of the Serious Sam games as well as the Talos Principle, just open sourced the engine behind the earlier Serious Sam games. It's currently Windows only, require Visual Studio 2013...
View ArticleUnreal Engine 4.11 Preview 7 Released
Another one for the early adopters. Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 7. As always you can update to the newest version using the Epic Game Launcher. This release is mostly full a...
View ArticleBDX 0.2.4 Released
BDX is a 3D engine that is hosted inside Blender and uses Java and the LibGDX library for programming. For more information I took a pretty in-depth look at an earlier version available here....
View ArticleSoniss Release 16GB of Sound FX For Free
In celebration of the Game Developer Conference that begins today, Soniss have released a collection of 16GB+ of sound effects. The sound fx are released under a very liberal license that grants you...
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