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Coming over 5 years after the release of Godot 3, the long wait for Godot 4 has finally come to an end, Godot 4 was just released. Godot is a popular open source 2D/3D game engine. The 4.0 release predictably enough is absolutely packed with new features and changes. Key …
The cross platform source available 3D game engine Flax Engine just released version 1.5. This is a fairly significant upgrade on the Flax Game Engine, which released v1.0 back in December 2020. The engine has come a long way in a short period of time. The 1.5 release adds networking …
Long running open source Windows-based graphical application Paint.NET just released version 5. The Paint.NET 5 release contains several new features, but the biggest among them is massively increased GPU support, pressure sensitive brushes and a new plugin system (which also takes advantage of the new GPU functionality). New features of …
AI assisted animation software Cascadeur, which first entered open beta back in July of 2020, finally shipped version 1.0. Best of all, the release has a very reasonable pricing structure with a very functional free tier. Cascadeur is available on Windows and Linux with a Mac version beginning development with …
Unity 2022.2 tech stream was released today. Unity have moved to a bi-annual release schedule with one release, the LTS or Long Term Support release, focusing on stability, while the Tech Stream release focuses primarily on adding new features. Highlights of the Unity 2022.2 Tech Stream Release include: Key Links …
Just over a month after the preview release Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 5.1. For a dot release, there are a ton of new features including several improvements to Lumen, Nanite and World Partition support. Some rather fundamental features were added too, such as Large World Coordinates, improved version …
Serif have released the Affinity 2 suite of applications, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2. These applications are similar to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Publisher and are a throwback to a previous generation, where you bought your software and it is yours forever, no subscriptions in …
A whole slew of development related releases from Microsoft today, including .NET 7, C# 11 and Visual Studio 2022 release 17.4. There are improvements across the entire product suite including support for ARM64, new native AOT compilation, new language features, new libraries such as MAUI support, updated versions of various …
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O3DE, the open source game engine that started life as CryEngine, then Lumberyard and now open sourced as O3DE, just released a major update in the form of 22.10. This is the first update since 22.05 back in May and focuses on the exact areas where I believe O3DE needed …
First announced back in November 2021, JetBrains Fleet is now available in public preview. Fleet is clearly aimed at the “smaller” IDE segment currently dominated by Visual Studio Code and takes a very interesting approach. Fleet starts as a lightweight and fast text editor with simple code editing features, but …
