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Free game engine gets new procedural vegetation system, plus sizeable update to the Script Canvas visual scripting system.

Thursday, June 20th, 2019

CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

Update to free game engine improves workflow in the Asset Browser and Entity Outliner, particularly if working with slices.

Thursday, December 20th, 2018

Unity 2018.3 ships

Update adds support for nested prefabs, new particle and terrain tools. Visual Effect Graph and GPU lightmapper out as tech previews.

Thursday, December 13th, 2018

New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

Monday, November 19th, 2018