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Unity Technologies went public back in 2020 with a nearly $14B valuation and currently with a current valuation of over $30B dollars. Being a publicly traded company puts pressure on them to increase revenue and we are seeing one such way they may be trying to maximize profits. According to …
NVIDIA have just released the second edition of Ray Tracing Gems. It is a book from a wide variety of industry experts (NVIDIA, Intel, Pixar, Epic Games, Remedy, Roblox and more), with 50 chapters on a wide variety of raytracing related subjects. Even better, the digital version of the book …
The first Tuesday of every month, Epic Games giveaway several assets for Unreal Engine, and August 2021 is no exception. The UE Marketplace assets are free but need to be “Purchased” before the first Tuesday of September, when they will hopefully be replaced with new free assets. Once purchased (for …
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Find the Cure Game Development Asset bundle. This bundle is a massive collection of game engine ready asssets including graphics, sprites, animations, music, sfx and more. The license for these assets is very liberal and can be read …
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For developers working with Android targets, but prefer not to work with Java or that would rather work in Visual Studio have reason to rejoice. The Android team have just released the Android Game Development Kit, a collection of extensions, libraries and tools to make developing Android Games easier, especially …
Even though development of Godot 4 is well under way, the Godot 3.x branch continues to receive updates, with the most recent full release being Godot 3.3 in April. Today we have the Beta 2 release of the Godot Game Engine with several new features, including one massive new feature, …
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are becoming more and more common in the world of game development. Recently we covered ArtBreeder, a machine learning based art generation tool, as well as CoPilot, GitHub’s just released AI powered code assistant. Today the tool we are looking at is CyberVoice, a tool …
Ultra App Kit was first released in April earlier this year and it provided a light weight C++ framework for creating GUI applications, specifically game development tools. There was one massive problem with that release… it was Windows only. With the release of Ultra App Kit 1.1, Linux and MacOS …
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Filled under the category of “News to me but not necessarily new”, as reported on Gamasutra, Microsoft have released their Game Development Kit on GitHub. This sounds like a huge development, as the GDK is the technologies and APIs you use to integrate with XBox services (while the GDKX is …
Unity Technologies have just announced the aquisition of software maker Interactive Data Visualization (IDV), best known for their game middleware Speedtree. Speedtree is a AAA tested package of tools and SDKs for creating realistic and scalable trees, foliage and vegetation and is used by such companies as Epic Games, CD …
