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Fresh off the news that key Godot developers have formed a new company W4 Games supporting Godot development, this new company has already born fruit in the form of Direct3D 12 support for Godot 4. Added as a GitHub pull request pending approval, this will add a Direct3D 12 renderer …
RayLib, a popular open source C/C++ based framework for game and multimedia development, just released RayLib 4.2. Almost a year after the release of RayLib 4.0, RayLib 4.2 has seen rapid growth in the number of contributors and much of the development of this release should make it easier for …
Key members of the Godot leadership team, specifically founder and leader developer Juan Linietsky and project coordinator Remi Vershelde, have just formed a new company called W4 Games. The purpose behind this company was described in this announcement Tweet about the formation of the company (which is in Ireland, if …
AppLovin, a company specializing in analytics and monetization for mobile applications, has made a $17.5B offer to buy Unity Technologies, the makers of the Unity game engine. This move comes less than one month after Unity announced the merger/acquisition of IronSource, a company very similar to AppLovin in purpose and …
Four years after announcing their cloud partnership with Google, it seems Unity have found a new online dance partner, Microsoft Azure. Today they have announced a broad partnership with Microsoft and specifically Microsoft Azure, which will have an impact on a wide variety of Unity’s online offerings. Details of the …
Eight months after the release of Godot 3.4, the popular open source Godot 3.5 game engine was just released. The Godot 3.5 release brings several features back ported from the hotly anticipated Godot 4 version, making the wait somewhat easier for Godot developers. Speaking of that wait, the first Godot …
Bevy, a popular open source Rust based game engine, just released version 0.8. This update adds several new features including a new material system, improvements to the ECS system but perhaps most of all is the new much more flexible and powerful camera system. Key features of Bevy 0.8 include: …
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so that means its time for Epic Games to run the Unreal Engine August 2022 marketplace asset giveaway. Like most months, it consists of 5 “free for the month” assets, as well as 1 addition to the permanently free collection. If you “buy” …
The Machinery, a game engine we first covered in 2020 appears to have shut down and have done so in perhaps the worst way possible. On July 28th, 2022 they made changes to their EULA, then a few days later sent the following email to all of their users (including …
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Announced a few weeks back at CppNorth developer conference in Toronto, Carbon is a new programming language being primarily developed by Google developers. The goal of Carbon is to provide a successor language to C++, by offering a modern more developer friendly language but also offering bi-directional support for C++, …
