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MonoGame, the open source XNA inspired C# game development framework, just released a major new update – MonoGame 3.8.5. The first release of 2026, MonoGame is also a pretty massive restructuring. There is now a new C++ layer for all the native code, abstracting the platform implementation details away from […]
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There are so many amazing deals, sales and bundles for game developers I have decided to gather them all together in one place on a monthly basis like we do with free gamedev assets. Here are the active game development deals and bundles for July 2026: Unity Asset Store Unity Asset
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Material Maker, the free and open source Godot Engine powered procedural material making software, just released Material Maker 1.7. Along side the new features of this release, it is also the first time that Material Maker has been made available on Steam. Key Features of the Material Maker 1.7 release:
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The Blender Foundation have just released Blender 5.2 LTS. The LTS stands for Long Term Support, meaning that if you are starting a new Blender project, this is the version they recommend you use as it will continue to see updates for 2 years. Highlights of the Blender 5.2 release
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It’s time for the July Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from July 14th – July 28th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets as well as 1 asset for Unity (and generic
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Just one week after Box3D physics was released, the popular free & open source cross platform Jolt physics engine released Jolt Physics 5.6. This powerful physics engine is already being used by tons of open source game engines, including Godot and GDevelop as well as being used for commercial AAA
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TypeScript 7 has just been released and it claims to have a 8-12X improvement in performance. How did they accomplish this kind of jump in performance? By ironically enough moving from TypeScript to Go and creating a native version of the TypeScript compiler, tsc. So what does a 10X improvement
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The Carbon Game Engine Framework has been open sourced by Fenris Creations (previously known as CCP Games). The Carbon engine powers the incredibly popular long running MMO Eve Online (and Eve Frontier). The majority of the source code has been released under the MIT license, while the remaining portions are
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id Software are without a doubt one of the most important game developers in the first person genre history. The technology empowering their games, idTech powers a shocking number of games and even game engines ( we ranked it 4th in our Most Important Game Engines of all Time ranking).
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Last month Godot 4.7 was released meaning that it was only a matter of time before Godot 4.8 development began. Godot have just released the first development release with the release of Godot 4.8 Dev1. These releases are obviously not meant for production use, but give us insight into the
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