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  Blender 2.77 is finally out, you can download it here.  Taking a bit longer than previous releases, this version brings a number of new features, including: Cycles rendering improvements including GPU support for Smoke/Fire, Subsurface Scattering and more Massive Grease Pencil improvements (including 2D animation) OpenVDB caching for large simulation datasets UI improvements Improved […]

  Goo Create, an HTML5 WebGL game engine with a full editor, just released a new version.   New in this release: New particle system component Visual behavior editor Synchronous behavior state transitions Improved action dialog with search Collapsible panels 65K vertex meshes no longer split Plus several other fixes and improvements: Improvements The current […]

  Substance Painter, the PBR (Physically Based Rendering) texture painting tool, just released version 2.0.  If you want more information on Substance I featured it in this video.  It’s an excellent texture creation tool that is growing in popularity every day ( just yesterday Unity announce Substance support for example ).  This release includes several […]

  The Power VR SDK, a set of tools, frameworks and examples, for supporting PowerVR GPUs, just released a new version with full Vulkan support.  The framework is now open source under the MIT license. From the new release announcement: The PowerVR Framework, a cross-platform and cross-API framework that acts as a scaffold around which […]

  Xenko Engine, previously known as Paradox, just released beta 1.6.  If you are unfamiliar with Xenko, I have done an in-depth tutorial series here.  This release brings quite a few updates, so let’s jump right in.   Updates to Xenko 1.6 include: addition of prefabs enabling reusable content easily archetypes, essentially create new objects […]

  Launched just last month, today at GDC Amazon announced the first (beta) update, Lumberyard 1.1.  This update has a fairly impressive number of features including: a new component/entity system Substance PBR integration FBX importer mobile support (just ARM8 + iOS devices and the NVidia Shield for now) new Twitch/Chatplay features For smaller developers the […]

  MonoGame, the popular open source implementation of the XNA game framework, just release version 3.5.  If you are interested in learning more, we have a pretty solid introductory tutorial available here. Details from this release: Content Pipeline Integration for Xamarin Studio and MonoDevleop on Mac and Linux. Automatic inclusion of XNBs into your final […]

  Nearing the end of last year, SideFX software released Houdini Engine, which brings procedurally based modeling to Unreal and Unity.  Previously the Indie version had a $99 price tag.  Now however, that price tag has been removed. From the announcement: SideFX is pleased to announce that Houdini Engine Indie is now available for free […]

  VR is hot right now but also insanely expensive.  Right now we can choose between the Oculus Rift, GearVR, HTC Vive, Google Cardboard and PlayStation VR is coming soon.  Except the GearVR every single one of those headsets have the same problems… they are expensive and have to be tethered to a device to […]