Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo
The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Game Engine
Godot team ships Godot 3.1
Open-source game engine gets new Boolean modelling system, soft body dynamics, plus revamped 2D and 3D animation toolsets.
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.17
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
Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding
New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.16
Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Sneak peeks: Unity's Visual Effect Graph and CineCast
See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
PlaySys ships Real IES 3.0
Newly updated lighting design app lets users create their own custom IES lights, including those with complex or asymmetric profiles.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4
New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.
Friday, August 31st, 2018
New PiXYZ Software tools get CAD data into Unity, UE4
Now shipping: alternatives to Unreal Studio help prepare CAD data for import into game engines.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2019 for Unreal Engine
New integration promises UE4 users GPU-based light field baking and support for ORBX scenes.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2
Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.14
Free game engine gets support for morph targets, new wind and force volumes, volumetric cloud system, visual scripting improvements.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018