No doubt going along with GDC 2016, the folks over at Humble Bundle are running a CryEngine themed humble bundle.  Basically it’s the typical Humble approach.. pay what you like, with some proceeds going to charity.  If you pay over a certain threshold, you can additional items.  This bundle includes numerous assets ready to be […]

  Unity have just released Unity Beta 5.4 today, available for download immediately.  Of course, this is a beta, so all usual warnings apply, there be dragons! So what’s in this release?  Well… Enhanced visuals, better performance, tighter Unity IAP integration and a major VR rendering upgrade There are significant visual quality and in-editor artist […]

  Nevigo have updated and changed the pricing for articy:draft, including a new subscription pricing option.  articy:draft can be thought of as a project management and design solution specifically for game development, a sort of mashup between MS Project and Viseo, but geared towards game development. Details on the new subscription model called FLEX pricing: […]

  VR is hot right now but also insanely expensive.  Right now we can choose between the Oculus Rift, GearVR, HTC Vive, Google Cardboard and PlayStation VR is coming soon.  Except the GearVR every single one of those headsets have the same problems… they are expensive and have to be tethered to a device to […]

  Nearing the end of last year, SideFX software released Houdini Engine, which brings procedurally based modeling to Unreal and Unity.  Previously the Indie version had a $99 price tag.  Now however, that price tag has been removed. From the announcement: SideFX is pleased to announce that Houdini Engine Indie is now available for free […]

  Project Tango is an interesting computer vision project from Google attempting to figure out the world around it, emulating the way we see the world.  Google surprisingly managed to sum up Project Tango succinctly on it’s project page: Project Tango combines 3D motion tracking with depth sensing to give your mobile device the ability […]

  jMonkeyEngine just released 3.1 Alpha 3.  Just recently they released Alpha 2 that decoupled jMonkeyEngine from Netbeans IDE.  This release takes this one step further and adds a few new features.  About the release: Without too much fanfare, the JME 3.1 alpha 3 release has been uploaded to the various places, including jcenter. If […]

  Microsoft was pretty revolutionary when they launched XNA, which enabled indie developers to create games for both Xbox consoles and PCs using a C# based game library.  Then in a somewhat tragic move, Microsoft later killed it off.  XNA lived on in the form of MonoGame which is a cross platform open source implementation […]

  In celebration of the Game Developer Conference that begins today, Soniss have released a collection of 16GB+ of sound effects.  The sound fx are released under a very liberal license that grants you usage rights for free and commercial use in an unlimited number of projects.  Taking a look at the track list the […]