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Xenko 3.0 game engine is here, now free and open-source

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Xenko, a game engine owned by Silicon Studios has officially released its third version on August 2. The major change in Xenko 3.0 is...
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Corona Labs open sources Corona, its free and cross-platform 2D game engine

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Corona Labs announced yesterday that it’s making its free and cross-platform 2D game engine, Corona, available as open source under the GPLv3 license and...

Epic releases Unreal Engine 4.22, focuses on adding “photorealism in real-time environments”

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Epic games released a new version of it’s flagship game engine, Unreal Engine 4.22. This release comes with a total of 174 improvements, focused...

Godot 3.1 released with improved C# support, OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer and much more!

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On 13 March, Wednesday, the Godot developers announced the release of a new version of the open source 2D and 3D cross-platform compatible game...
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Unity 2019.2 releases with updated ProBuilder, Shader Graph, 2D Animation, Burst Compiler and more

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Yesterday, the Unity team announced the release of Unity 2019.2. In this release, they have added more than 170 new features and enhancements for...

Making Money with Your Game

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Your game development strategy If you want to build a game to make some money, it is...

What’s Your Input?

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This article by Venita Pereira, the author of the book Learning Unity 2D Game Development by Example, teaches us all about the various input...

Going Isometric

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Cartesian to isometric equations A very important thing to understand here is that the level data still...
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Now you can play Assassin’s Creed in Chrome thanks to Google’s new game streaming...

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Google announced a new experimental game streaming service, namely, Project Stream, earlier this week. Google calls this project a “technical test” and has partnered...

Epic Games announces: Epic MegaGrants, RTX-powered Ray tracing demo, and free online services for...

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Epic Games, an American video game and software development company, made a series of announcements, earlier this week. These include: Epic Game’s CEO, Tim...

Must Read in Game Dev

Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and...

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...

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