Video: Crytek's tasty new CryEngine tech demo
Engine update shows off physically based skin shading, automated LODs, procedural GPGPU weather.
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Game Engine
Anzovin Studio releases The Setup Machine for Games
New version of the Maya auto-rigging plugin now supports game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity.
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Eye candy: the Unity GDC 2013 showreel
Take a break from AAA titles with this short, sweet reminder of how well Unity puts the fizz in indie games.
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Watch real-time path tracing in Otoy's Brigade engine
See a 13.9-billion-triangle scene rendered in real time in this noisy but beautifully photorealistic demo.
Monday, April 8th, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Video demo: Square Enix's Luminous Studio editor
Updated 20 December: Watch two new videos of real-time edits to the Agni's Philosophy next-gen demo.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Paint games flow maps with FlowMap Painter
Teck Lee Tan's intriguing free tool creates surface fluid flow patterns with only a few brush strokes.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
GarageGames to open source Torque 3D
Source code for version 1.2 of the venerable indie game engine to be made available for free via GitHub.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
Preview: thinkingParticles 6 and thinkingParticles GE
3ds Max particle system to gain fluid and cloth sim tools, plus new edition for Unity and Unreal game engines.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Unity 4 to add new animation system, Linux export
But is the forthcoming upgrade to the market-leading game engine as substantial as previous updates?
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Eye candy: Square Enix's Agni's Philosophy demo
See Square's new Luminous Studio engine make its spectacular - but typically baffling - real-time debut.
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Unity Technologies ships Unity 3.5
Over 400 new features, updates and bugfixes, including Flash export and new 'Shuriken' particle system.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Crytek releases free CryEngine 3 SDK
Use the same game engine as Crysis 2 in your non-commercial or educational projects.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011