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
Game Engine
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
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.13
Free game engine gets experimental support for Nvidia's PhysX real-time physics system, more integrated cloud functionality.
Monday, March 26th, 2018
IKinema unveils Project Studio
New software framework will let users 'mix and match' toolsets from the firm's motion capture data solving and streaming products.
Monday, March 26th, 2018
Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap
See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.
Friday, March 23rd, 2018