OpenUSD now supports Vulkan

Universal Scene Description's HgiVulkan backend is intended to make Vulkan a 'more compelling option' for tools developers.

Tuesday, August 13th, 2024

Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Vulkan now does ray tracing

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Eye candy: Epic's ProtoStar Vulkan graphics demo

Get a glimpse of mobile games to come with this cool UE4 demo created using the new graphics API.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available

See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

Compare Vulkan to OpenGL ES in 'gnomes per second'

Imagination Technologies' demo of graphics APIs draws 40,000 gnomes in real time on a PowerVR G6430 mobile GPU.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action

Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

ArmorPaint 1.0 is out after eight years in early access

The first 'official' release of the open-source alternative Substance 3D Painter is now ready to download. Check out its new features.

Friday, September 4th, 2026

Unity releases Unity 6.5: discover 5 key features for CG artists

Unity artists get updates to the Shader and VFX Graphs, but OptiX denoising and the Built-In Render Pipeline are both deprecated.

Monday, June 22nd, 2026

NeXus for Blender is now free in beta

New Blender edition of the popular C4D particle and fluid simulation tool is free in beta for anyone who signs up for an Insydium account.

Saturday, June 6th, 2026

World Machine will support VDM-based terrain, not just heightmaps

Upcoming Dragontail Peak updates will also bring the veteran terrain-generation software to Linux and macOS as well as Windows.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2026

Blender 5.1 is here: discover its 5 key features

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from the Raycast node to rendering and animation improvements.

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

Get NVIDIA's new path tracing fork of the Godot game engine

Experimental version of the game engine capable of 'really good' looking ray tracing is now available on GitHub under a MIT license.

Friday, March 13th, 2026