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  Autodesk just announced the release of Extension 2 for 3ds Max 2016.  Extensions are interim updates between major releases.  Extensions 2 adds the follow functionality: With fundamental improvements in the Max Creation Graph (MCG), users can now animate accurate simulation data like Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) data or other data inside their 3ds Max […]

EDIT — Paradox is now Xenko Game Engine and is available at xenko.com.  Everything else should remain the same however. In this Closer Look At we look at take a look at the Paradox Game Engine.  The Closer Look At game engine series is a cross between an overview, a review and a getting started […]

  Welcome to the very first tutorial in the Paradox Game Engine tutorial series, this section is going to cover installation and getting started.  The process is in reality incredibly straight forward, so this should be fairly short.  If you are unfamiliar with the Paradox Game Engine, consider starting here for an indepth review of […]

      This entry in the Closer Look series is a bit different than normal.  First, Blade Engine is very much a work in progress, so expect bugs and flaws and minimal documentation.  Second, it’s actually built over top of an existing game engine, LibGDX.  Finally, it’s a game engine focused on one very […]

  The Visual Studio team at Microsoft just released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2015.  The editor now supports several more languages such as Go, Swift and Ruby, command line REPL for C#, new NuGet and .Net releases and more.  From the announcement blog post: New Visual Studio Icon. Responding to your feedback on […]

  Along side the release of Visual Studio 2015 SP1, Microsoft shipped a new version of the TypeScript programming language.  I personally am a huge fan of TypeScript, but I am not entirely certain I am onboard with the changes introduced in 1.7.  Speaking of those changes, here they are, taken from the MSDN TypeScript […]

Corona Labs, makers of the popular Lua based game engine CoronaSDK have been acquired by Perk a mobile rewards provider. From the Corona blog: Today, I’m really happy to announce that Corona and the team are joining Perk. Perk is a publicly traded, profitable company that has built a service/platform that rewards people for everyday […]

  Quixel just released version 2 of their suite of products.  Quixel Suite is composed of: NDO Painter DDO Painter 3DO Baker   You can currently purchase the entire suite for $99 on an indie license or $409 on a commercial license, which represents a 25% savings.   As to what Quixel actually is, it’s […]

  Each year Black Friday has more and more game development deals.  Each year it also gets earlier and earlier… Black Thursday, Black Wednesday, you name it and of course they are trying to stretch it out with Cyber Monday.  This post is an attempt to capture the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals most relevant to […]

  Construct2, the popular visual HTML5 game engine, just released version R218 beta.  From the release notes: New this release: support for NW.js 0.13.0-alpha6 with a few bug fixes, experimental support for recording a video of the canvas with Firefox, and pressure and size information for touches, particularly relevant for the iPhone 6S with its […]