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Ex Epic Games developer, the programmer of Jazz Jackrabbit 1/2, founder of Guerrilla Games Arjan Brussee is creating a new game engine – the Immense Engine. The hallmark of this game engine is that it is going to be extremely Eurocentric: “No one is currently making an engine that is […]
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The Anvil Level Design Tool is a free and open source add-on for Blender heavily inspired by the popular TrenchBroom level editor. This tool adds several features to Blender in two new workspaces – Level Design & Hotspot Mapping, that combined back it easy to rapidly create and texture game
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Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.8 preview. Obviously being a preview release it shouldn’t be used in a production environment! Details of the Unreal Engine 5.8 preview release from the UE forums: Unreal Engine 5.8 Preview prioritizes performance advancements, providing systems that are more reliable, scalable, and intuitive
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Autodesk have just released a new completely free 3D modeling application called Project Falcon. Project Falcon runs in the browser, requiring a user account but nothing more and enables you to create 3D models quick and easy using a kitbashing approach. Using the hundreds of built in meshes and combining
Project Falcon – Free 3D Kitbash App from Autodesk Read More
We have long been a fan of the Defold Game Engine (check out full tutorial series here). Defold is a cross platform (including consoles!) completely free source available 2D and 2.5D game engine. Like most modern 2D game engines, it’s actually fully 3D under the hood, just with tooling that
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Godot recently released an interesting article on their website breaking down the open-source Godot game engine’s growth over the last few years. The over all framing of the article is as follows: I like to keep track of Godot’s growth. Since we don’t have any tracking information in the engine
Godot Popularity in 2026 Read More
Unity AI beta has just been launched and is available for all Unity version 6+. This is a completely different version than the tire fire that was Unity Muse. This new iteration of Unity AI brings agentic control of Unity, MCP control, Unity chat and of course a suite of
Unity AI Beta Launched Read More
It’s time for the Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from May 5th – May 19th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets as well as 1 Unity asset, but as you can
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Earlier this week the Blender Foundation announced a corporate patron level donation from a fairly unlikely source – Anthropic AI. To say this was a bit polarizing in the community is a bit of an understatement. Today, Blender CEO Francesco Siddi released the following statement about upcoming changes around the
Blender x Anthropic – The Fallout Read More
Gaussian Splats are increasingly popular in the world of computer graphics (see our recent coverage of Gaussian Splats in Godot), yet they have traditionally been a poor fit for game development for a variety of reasons including the lack of collision data, file sizes and other issues compared to a
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