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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 …
Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.1 preview, the first release since UE5 was released back in April. So what can we expect in Unreal Engine 5.1? Well quite a bit actually, we have improvements to Nanite and Lumen, the two major new features added in Unreal Engine 5. …
The open source, cross platform, easy to use, visual programming based game engine GDevelop just released version 5.1. We first checked out GDevelop years ago in our closer look series and the game engine has come a long way since. The 5.1 update is a cumulation of several smaller updates …
The wait for Godot 4 just got shorter, with the first official beta released and a feature freeze. What you see in this beta should be pretty much the same as what ships with Godot 4. Of course if you encounter any bugs or problems, be sure to report them. …
Autodesk have just launched a new version of Maya, Maya Creative. This version of Maya contains the vast majority features included in the “full version” of Maya with a few features ( mostly dynamics and API access, as well as some gamedev features such as Substance and Unreal integration) missing. …
