Game Development

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Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and Virtual Reality projects

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

4 years ago

Harrison Ferrone explains why C# is the preferred programming language for building games in Unity

C# is one of the most popular programming languages which is used to create games in the Unity game engine.…

4 years ago

What is Unity’s new Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS)

If we look at the evolution of computing and gaming over the last decade, we can see how different things…

4 years ago

Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx, its first flagship VR game

Yesterday, Valve Corporation, the popular American video game developer, announced the Half-Life: Alyx, the first new game in the popular…

4 years ago

Five reasons to begin Packt subscription

The Packt library provides you with all the tools you need to stay relevant in tech, whether you’re looking to…

4 years ago

DeepMind AI’s AlphaStar achieves Grandmaster level in StarCraft II with 99.8% efficiency

Earlier this year in January, Google’s DeepMind AI AlphaStar had defeated two professional players, TLO and MaNa, at StarCraft II,…

4 years ago

Blizzard comes under fire after banning pro-player for expressing support for Hong Kong protests

Update: The article has now been updated to include Blizzard's press release about relaxing the ban on the pro-player.  Blizzard…

4 years ago

Unreal Engine 4.23 releases with major new features like Chaos, Virtual Production, improvement in real-time ray tracing and more

Last week, Epic released the stable version of Unreal Engine 4.23 with a whopping 192 improvements. The major features include…

5 years ago

Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020

Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after…

5 years ago

Japanese Anime studio Khara is switching its primary 3D CG tools to Blender

Popular Japanese animation studio Khara, announced on Friday that it will be moving to open source 3D software Blender as…

5 years ago