Corona Labs have released a new plugin for Corona, their Lua based mobile game SDK.  The plugin adds support for Facebook Audience Network, which is basically Facebook’s ad network. From the plugin announcement: Corona Labs is pleased to announce immediate availability of the Facebook Audience Networkplugin. This new plugin brings Facebook Ads to your […]

  An update for the Xenko (previously Paradox) game engine was released today.  Relatively minor, mostly a fix release.  Details from the release: Async Debugging There were some problems debugging async functions due to a problem in Mono.Cecil. We fixed that! Now, you’ll be able to look at local variables of any async functions. Also, […]

  Welcome to another episode in the “Closer Look at” game engine series.  The closer look series is a combination of getting started tutorial and review to help you determine if a game engine is the right fit for you.  Today we are looking at the QICI Engine and HTML5 game engine built over top […]

  This news comes via Gamasutra, Valve Software release their Steam Link SDK on Github.  SteamLink is a Linux powered box that enables you to stream your Steam library directly to your TV like you currently can between two PCs today. From the github readme: This is the SDK for the Valve Steam Link Hardware: […]

  Remember when you used to wait months to years for updates for your game engine?  Isn’t competition a wonderful thing?   Along with today’s Unreal Preview release we get word of the new weekly Unity patch, 5.3.1p3.   From the release notes: Features Added link to learn more about Unity Cloud Build in the Build […]

  Want a little extra spice in your development life?  Does juggling live hand grenades, chainsaws and lit dynamite sound like a fun way to spend the afternoon?  Then have I got news for you!  Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 2 has been made available.  Obviously it’s a “you get what you get” type preview release […]

  To be honest, I am shocked it took this long.  JetBrains have made an excellent Java IDE for ages.  Then they released IDEs for just about every single language out there, as well as the C# refactoring tool Resharper, but never a full blown C# IDE, until today that is. Interestingly though, this isn’t […]

  Welcome to the final part of our three part series on level creation using Blender.  In the first part of the tutorial we created a skybox for our world.  In the second we used a height map to create some terrain.  Today we are going to look at applying multiple textures to that terrain. […]

  In Part One of our level creation in Blender tutorial series, we created a skybox to define the boundaries of our game level.  In this tutorial we are going to create the terrain for our level.  You will probably be surprised by just how much we can accomplish with almost zero effort.   Creating […]