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  SDKBOX started life as a tool that made integrating 3rd party SDKs such as Google Analytics or Google/Apple IAP into Cocos2d-x applications easy.  It was just recently spun out from under the Cocos2d-x project by parent company Chukong.  This move seems to be in advance of adding support for other engines, namely Unreal and […]

  In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, today at the Vision VR/AR Summit, Valve announced they will be bringing SteamVR support to Unity, as well as a new VR rendering plugin for extended functionality. From the announcement: Today, during the opening keynote of the inaugural Vision VR / AR Summit, Valve and Unity […]

  I have to say, I just came across this custom branch of Blender and it’s astonishingly good.  In addition to a number of improvements to viewport lighting, this Blender branch actually brings PBR (Physically Based Rendering) to the Blender viewport.  To really appreciate what has been accomplished here, you really need to check out […]

  Another week another Unity patch.  No new functionality, this patch was populated entirely with fixes: Fixes (742199) – Android: Fixed remote frame debugger. (none) – Android: Marshmallow – Added the possibility to disable the permission dialog by adding metadata to the activity. (755510) – Android: Mono – Fixed crash on startup with Unity Ads […]

  Intel RealSense is a technology and SDK for computer vision including motion controls, facial recognition and more.  There are several cameras and laptops on the market these days that are compatible with RealSense.  Very similar in scope and function to Kinect for the Xbox and Xbox One. Well, earlier this week a plugin was […]

  This news care of /r/gamedev, EA have released EASTL under the BSD license on Github. EASTL has been around for ages, and got a limited release a number of years back, but this is the first time there has been a complete release under a BSD license.  EASTL is an implementation of the Standard […]

  Today Amazon launched the Lumberyard Game Engine a modified and completely open source version of the CryEngine from Crytek.  Free.  So, what’s the catch?  You have to run your server component either on your own server or using Amazon’s web services.  Yeah, that’s it.  A pretty sweat deal all around.  So today I took […]

  In the previous tutorial we installed the Superpowers game engine and created our first game.  In this tutorial we are going to get comfortable with the editor and create our first scene.  First let’s start with the editor, which we should have loaded at the conclusion of the last part.  In the top left […]

  Not every day that there is a new player in the AAA game space, but that’s exactly what just happened with the release of Lumberyard by Amazon.  Amazon has been getting more and more involved with gaming with the launch of their own game studio coupled with their purchased of Double Helix games back […]