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  GarageGames have just released Torque2D version 3.2.  Torque2D is 2D game engine built over the Torque 3D engine, which is now open source and MIT licensed. From the release: While you were singing carols door to door and sipping eggnog by the fireplace, the T2D Steering Committee was hard at work wrapping up one […]

  So over the holiday I joined the VR revolution with a Samsung GearVR while I wait for the Oculus Rift to be released.  The good news is, it’s really quite cool, except a full review shortly.  However, one of the challenges of reviewing something like the GearVR on the web is taking a screenshot…  […]

  A couple months back I got sick of having to wear a headset when doing video recording.  I had been using a set of Astro A30 headphones which gave solid results, but I found them uncomfortable after extended periods of recording and didn’t like being tethered to my machine.  So I decided to try […]

  This series is a recap of GameFromScratch’s previous week activity on YouTube.   This week was pretty sparse because it was the week of the Christmas holiday.  Happy holiday folks!  There were however still four videos this week:   A Completely Random Look at 123D Sculpt a freely available tablet based sculpting application from […]

  ShiVa, a 3D WYSIWYG game engine, just released ShiVa 2.0 Beta 4.   From the release: Beta 4 features When we changed the rendering pipeline with Beta 3, we intended to move ShiVa into a better, more future-proof direction, that would give us lots of room for exciting new features in the future. Unfortunately, […]

  Care of /r/gamedev, Ultraviolet released version 1.3.  In their own words, Ultraviolet is: Ultraviolet is a cross-platform, .NET game development framework written in C# and released under the MIT License. It is heavily inspired by Microsoft’s XNA Framework, and is intended to be easy for XNA developers to quickly pick up and start using. […]

  Unity just released the first patch for Unity 5.3. From the release notes: Improvements (706098) – Compute: Improved compute shader import times, particularly on Windows (since 5.1 we were always compiling them for GL4.3+GLES3.1 too, while most people only need DX11). (754898) – GI: Light probes and ambient (everything with SH calculations) match ground […]

  LÖVE, the popular Lua based open source game engine, just released version 0.10.  This is excellent news for me as I can now use the newest release in my upcoming complete beginners series.   So, what’s so special about this release?  Well the biggest feature has to be iOS and Android support, which I […]

  Unreal have just released a preview version of Unreal Engine 4.11 today.  The following is a list of items updated within this release: Rendering Updates: New physically based shading model for realistic hair based on the latest research from film. It models 2 specular lobes, transmission, and scattering. New physically based shading model for […]

  There is a preview of the upcoming Leadwerks Game Engine 4 available on Steam today. From the announcement: We completely rethought how large-scale scene management should work to bring you a one-of-a-kind vegetation system for handling massive amounts of foliage. Instead of storing each instance in memory, our new system uses a distribution algorithm […]