10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27
See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.
Monday, August 23rd, 2021
game development environment
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.28
Minor update to the free game engine adds support for the latest Twitch API, while users wait for the release of the new Atom renderer.
Friday, May 21st, 2021
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.27
Check out the free game engine's new Houdini-integrated Nvidia Blast destruction physics system and improved cloth simulation.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.26
Update to the free game engine officially replaces CryPhysics with PhysX, and improves the terrain and dynamic vegetation systems.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.25
Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.
Monday, July 20th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.24
Check out the changes to PhysX physics, cloth simulation and collision geometry in the latest version of the free game engine.
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.23
Free game engine gets new cloth simulation system for clothing and environment assets, plus better character animation performance.
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.22
Game engine gets a new automated system for bundling assets for release with a game, plus new texture debugging features.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Xenko team ships Xenko 3.1
C#-based open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets its first major update since being made available under an MIT licence last year.
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap
See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3
Friday, September 27th, 2019