Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20

Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2

Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Oculus ships Medium 2.0

VR modelling tool gets new Elastic mode for sculpting, support for grid and angle snapping, fewer limits on layers, undo operations and lights.

Monday, July 2nd, 2018

Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo

Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019

Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018

Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4

Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6

Check out the intelligent new progressive lightmapper and dynamic navigation mesh system.

Monday, April 3rd, 2017

Silicon Studio to release Xenko game engine commercially

Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.15

Update improves texture streaming and tonemapping, adds support for Nintendo Switch and HDR displays.

Thursday, February 16th, 2017

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Unity Technologies reveals 2017 Unity product roadmap

See all the new features due in Unity 5.6 and beyond - including a free integration of OctaneRender.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.12

Check out the new VR Editor mode and Sequencer cinematic editor. Lots of new mobile options, too.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Otoy reveals its roadmap to OctaneRender 4.0

Support for CPU rendering, skinned characters and Brigade path tracing - plus OctaneImager, an entire new compositing app.

Thursday, April 7th, 2016