Unity 5.2 ships

Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.

Friday, September 11th, 2015

Eye candy: Epic's Showdown Unreal Engine 4 VR demo

Watch this epic bullet-time-inspired mech battle demo - then download all of the UE4 assets for free.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.9

Wide-ranging update adds new rendering and animation options, plus experimental support for DirectX 12.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

Eye candy: Unreal Engine's Gamescom sizzle reel

Watch the best new work created with the game engine: from triple-As to mobile titles, arch viz and VR.

Saturday, August 8th, 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

Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015

Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.8

Updated: Now officially shipping. New downloadable .exe file for the UE4 Kite demo due this week, too.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Fabric Software unveils Fabric Engine for Modo

VFX tools development platform to be integrated with Modo. Houdini, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine also in the works.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

Visual Studio partners Unity, Unreal, Cocos2d engines

Microsoft's free IDE will co-install with all three game engines, along with bonus add-ons.

Monday, April 20th, 2015

Side Effects releases beta of Houdini Engine for UE4

Updated: New plugin for using Houdini content inside Unreal Engine 4 now available for testing.

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5

Now shipping. Texturing app gets new procedural tools, better baking. Income cap relaxed on Indie licence.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Our new Source 2 engine will be free, says Valve

Successor to the engine used on Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 will be 'free to content developers'.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Eye candy: the Unity GDC 2015 Highlight Reel

Take a three-minute tour through some of the gorgeous titles being created with the Unity game engine.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015