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Game Engine

Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.

Friday, April 9th, 2021

Free 158-page PDF provides an overview of new workflows and job opportunities in virtual production.

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

Markerless mocap software suite can now stream motion capture data to Unreal Engine in real time.

Friday, March 26th, 2021

Popular plugin turns online DEM data into 3D terrain inside 3ds Max - now to 30m resolution worldwide.

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021

Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Fix performance bottlenecks and optimise art assets in UE4 with The Gnomon Workshop's masterclass.

Thursday, March 4th, 2021

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.

Saturday, February 27th, 2021

Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.

Friday, February 26th, 2021

New Lite edition of Tripolygon's popular sketch-based modeling and level design tool for Unity can be used free in commercial work.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021

Leading Russian mobile game studio backs future dev work on the open-source game engine.

Monday, February 15th, 2021