Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 23.05
Big update to the open-source game engine adds node-based material system, OpenXR support.
Friday, May 5th, 2023
Lumberyard
Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse
Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.10
Open-source game engine's new terrain system handles '16km x 16km worlds at high framerates'.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
Amazon makes AWS Thinkbox software available free
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.05
Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.
Friday, May 13th, 2022
IDV ships SpeedTree 9.0
Tree-generation software for VFX and games gets freehand editing mode, new tools for integrating 3D scans, and new pricing model.
Monday, January 17th, 2022
Open 3D Engine gets first stable release, 2022 roadmap
Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.
Thursday, December 30th, 2021
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Unity Technologies acquires SpeedTree developer IDV
Buyout to 'deepen integration' of IDV's tree-authoring technology with Unity, starting in Unity 2021.2.
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
AWS unveils Open 3D Engine
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.28
Minor update to the free game engine adds support for the latest Twitch API, while users wait for the release of the new Atom renderer.
Friday, May 21st, 2021
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Amazon Web Services is now a Blender Corporate Patron
Tech giant's donation ensures at least €360,000 in funding to overhaul Blender's animation tools.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020