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  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 […]

  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 […]

  Big news out of the GDC today.  Crytek have shipped CryEngine V, it’s released under a pay what you can license that gives you full access including source code.  CryEngine.com is currently unavailable, so the source for this news is gematsu.com.  I am still waiting to hear the official announcement from Crytek.   From […]

  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 […]

  Nevigo have updated and changed the pricing for articy:draft, including a new subscription pricing option.  articy:draft can be thought of as a project management and design solution specifically for game development, a sort of mashup between MS Project and Viseo, but geared towards game development. Details on the new subscription model called FLEX pricing: […]

  Unity have just released Unity Beta 5.4 today, available for download immediately.  Of course, this is a beta, so all usual warnings apply, there be dragons! So what’s in this release?  Well… Enhanced visuals, better performance, tighter Unity IAP integration and a major VR rendering upgrade There are significant visual quality and in-editor artist […]