Get NVIDIA's new path tracing fork of the Godot game engine
Experimental version of the game engine capable of 'really good' looking ray tracing is now available on GitHub under a MIT license.
Friday, March 13th, 2026
Real Time Renderer
Unreal Engine 5.7 is here: see five key features for CG artists
See our pick of the features in the latest version of Unreal Engine, from the new procedural plant editor to updates to MetaHumans.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.6
Check out the new features in the game engine, from major updates to Lumen and and the animation tools to the new Mocap Manager.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
See the new features due in Unreal Engine 5.6 and beyond
Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.5: discover 10 key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1
New features in the game engine range from updates to Nanite and Lumen to AI-based animation tools.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.0
Material authoring app formerly known as Substance Alchemist also now creates lighting set-ups.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Check out the new features in ZBrush 2019
Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Sneak peek: Blender 2.8
Updated: Read the full design document for the new workflow and 2D animation features, and Eevee, the real-time render engine.
Monday, October 9th, 2017
See the Creation Real-Time Renderer running in 3ds Max
Updated: See Fabric Engine's VFX renderer power a custom per-pixel camera projection tool inside Max.
Thursday, September 12th, 2013