Use Deadline for free this month

Thinkbox Software offers free hours of the renderfarm manager in May to trial Deadline 8's new on-demand licensing system.

Thursday, May 5th, 2016

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2017

Videos: See the new ART renderer, revamped UI, and updates to the UV and modelling tools in action here.

Monday, April 18th, 2016

Nvidia releases HairWorks source, unveils PhysX-GRB

Source code of fur system used on Call of Duty: Ghosts out now. New CGU/GPU rigid body system in beta.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

Crytek releases CryEngine V for free

AAA game engine now available on a 'pay what you want basis'; gets new C# API and particle system, revamped renderer.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

Amazon releases free Lumberyard game engine

Get full source code access to the CryEngine-based AAA engine, aimed at multiplayer online titles.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0

Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Autodesk launches Stingray game engine

New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

See the proposed dev schedule for Blender 2.8

Mainly bugfixes for a year, then a major update in 2016 - which may not be 100% backwards-compatible.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901

Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

Next Limit announces RFCORE for Cinema 4D

New addition to RealFlow product line will let users create and render liquid sims directly inside C4D.

Friday, April 17th, 2015

Discover the new features in Maya 2016

Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Autodesk unveils 3ds Max 2016

Strong update adds node-based tool-authoring system, new physical camera, improved Alembic and OpenSubdiv support.

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Nvidia releases PhysX source code on GitHub

Get the full C++ source of the top game physics system, including the clothing and destruction libraries.

Thursday, March 5th, 2015