Why has Serif stopped selling its Affinity software?
Read our FAQs on why Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher have been taken off sale ahead of an announcement on 30 October.
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
licensing change
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.1
Big update to the GPU-based terrain generator adds new biome and object scattering systems. See all of the changes, and the new pricing.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Chaos updates V-Ray, Corona and Enscape subscription plans
Node-locked licenses of the renderers ended, new ArchDesign, ArchViz and M&E Collection product bundles launched.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Lumion releases Lumion 2025.0
Significant update to the real-time visualization software adds AI render upscaling, ray traced water and fog, and new pricing and licensing.
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Anima 6.0 adds traffic simulation to Chaos's crowd animation tool
Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Left Angle releases Autograph 2025
Big update to the compositing and motion design app adds a DaVinci Resolve Live Link, an After Effects converter - and a new free edition.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2024.3
Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
Unity scraps controversial Runtime Fee but raises prices
Cost of Unity Pro subscriptions to rise by 8% next year, and Unity Enterprise by 25%. Free Unity Personal subscriptions unaffected.
Friday, September 13th, 2024
Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima
Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.
Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4
Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
RealityCapture is now free to indie artists and studios
Popular photogrammetry software is now free to users with revenue under $1 million/year. Check out the other changes in RealityCapture 1.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Twinmotion is now free to indie artists and studios
Real-time visualization tool is free for commercial use to anyone earning under $1 million/year. See what else is new in Twinmotion 2023.2.4.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2024.1
Big update to the AI-assisted animation software adds animation retargeting and 'unbaking' systems, plus new pricing model
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024