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Today from GDC, Marmalade are offering their flagship product, um… Marmalade Community Edition free for a year.  Normally Marmalade Community is priced at $150 a year.   So, what exactly is Marmalade?  Its a cross platform, mobile oriented C++ game framework (although Obj-C, Lua and HTML5 are options).  In their own words: Marmalade gives you […]

  Today Unreal officially announced the release of Unreal Engine 4.  First a blurb about the Unreal Engine from Tim Sweeny:   Unreal Engine 4 launches today. What we’re releasing is both simple and radical: everything. Epic’s goal is to put the engine within reach of everyone interested in building games and 3D content, from […]

You had to imagine you would hear something from CryEngine from the GDC after Unity and Unreal made their announcements, and they did… sorta.   The full announcement is here, but most of it is below:   As a first tier of its new program, Crytek has revealed that from May this year, indie developers […]

  With GDC going on it’s no surprise to hear a number of product announcement.  Today Autodesk announced the annual refresh of almost all of their game related technologies including Maya and Maya LT, Max, MotionBuilder, Mudbox and Softimage.    From the official press release here are the major new features for each product: Autodesk […]

  A pretty common journalistic practice is the news embargo.  Basically a number of journalists are given advance access to information and a date which is the earliest time they can reveal that information.  Everyone once in a while someone jumps the gun and breaks the embargo; often by mistake, sometimes on purpose.  Often when […]

  MakeHuman started life in 1999 as a Blender plugin named MakeHead, a plugin for procedurally creating head meshes.  In 2000 the first version of MakeHuman was released.  In 2005 it was turned into a stand alone application. Today we seem a major milestone release of MakeHuman 1.0.0!   So what exactly is MakeHuman?  It’s […]

  From this post on reddit I have learned of the open sourcing of Sony’s game tool creation kit Authoring Tools Framework (ATF).  The ATF is a comprehensive .NET/C# based framework for creating game tools.  It has been used to create all kinds of tools for several shipped games including the level editor for Naughty […]

  Ever heard of FMOD?  As far as game libraries go, FMOD is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous libraries in existence.  It is a low level audio library and the question isn’t really who uses it, but who doesn’t.  FMOD is integrated into just about every game engine you can think of including CryEngine, […]

  Yesterday the Blender Foundation announced the release of Blender 2.7 RC, a preview build of the upcoming full 2.7 version.  This release is going to jump out at you immediately as they have started refining the UI.  Now sidebar actions are group in context sensitive tabs making the bar much less cluttered.   This […]

  If you’ve been a regular reader of my blog you will probably know that I am not Eclipse’s biggest cheerleader.  “I hate it” might be a bit strong, but not by much.  Recently though, I’ve been forced to use it more and more.  Frankly, if you want to work in cross platform Java, especially […]