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Community-created patch for CryEngine 5.7 adds the first publicly available new features to Crytek's AAA game engine for three years.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

New version of the veteran graphics benchmark for testing workstations reflects recent changes to CG software and industry pipelines.

Monday, May 5th, 2025

Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.

Friday, August 30th, 2024

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer aims to make the software 'as powerful for VFX as it is for architectural visualization'.

Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Discover which Nvidia GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Monday, June 26th, 2023

Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.

Friday, September 2nd, 2022

Check out the new features in the real-time tool for exploring V-Ray scenes, like the new cloud system.

Monday, July 18th, 2022

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Monday, June 27th, 2022

Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

Long-awaited update to the game engine is smaller than first planned, but features updates to Scaleform and the GamePlatform plugin.

Thursday, April 7th, 2022