Unity Technologies just released version 5.3 of their popular Unity game engine.  The biggest news of this release is probably that WebGL is no longer an experimental platform and is considered a fully supported target.  Apple TV support is also coming soon, but as of right now it is in beta only.   The […]

  Last week I announced the Xamarin port of Urho3D to .NET and in the resulting /r/gamedev conversation it was discovered that the license it was released under required you to use Xamarin products.  This obviously caused a great deal of annoyance within the community.  Fortunately today Miguel de Icaza CTO at Xamarin announced that […]

  Today on the Xamarin blog, they announced the release of Urhosharp.  You may recall I covered Urho3D a while back in the Closer Look at Series.  From the announcement: Building 3D experiences and games using a high-level framework that works across all of the major platforms is now as easy as installing a single […]

  SideFx software just announced the release of Houdini Engine for Unreal.  Houdini is a long standing procedurally based 3D modeling, animating and rendering application which was until recently a fairly poor fit for game development.  With Houdini 15 they added the following game oriented features: To enhance the creation of procedural game assets, Side […]

  Having never used or even heard of sketch based animation you can’t help but feel like a “someone changes something in the matrix” moment, when not one but two stories cross your desk in the same week.   The first was release of VPaint Beta 1.5.  It is in their own words: VPaint is […]

  BabylonJS is a popular 3D game engine for WebGL that I covered back in the spring.  Today Sébastien Pertus at Microsoft announced the release of a project generator available on npm:   Today I want to share with you a new project I work on those days. The idea is to bring you a […]

  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 […]

  Blender4Web, a 3D engine that enables you to create web content directly in Blender, just released version 15.11.   From the release notes: New Features Initial support of WebGL 2.0 technology. New API features are automatically provided with compatible browser and hardware New logic editor nodes: Camera animation. The option to smoothly change camera’s […]

  Paradox the C# based cross platform game engine we featured a few months back, as just announced a major version release and a name change to Xenko.  First about the update: New Features With This Release Users Can Now Edit Documentation! We’re so glad to have added this feature that allows users to share […]

  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 […]