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GitHub is bringing back Game Off, its sixth annual game building competition, in November

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The GitHub team announced yesterday that they’re coming back with their sixth annual game jam, called Game Off in November. In Game Off, participants...
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Microsoft announces Project xCloud, a new Xbox game streaming service, on the heels of...

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Microsoft announced a new game streaming project for Xbox yesterday, namely, Project xCloud. Microsoft is not the only one who has rolled out their...
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Minecraft Java team are open sourcing some of Minecraft’s code as libraries

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Stockholm's Minecraft Java team are open sourcing some of Minecraft's code as libraries for game developers. Developers can now use them to improve their...
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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...
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Rust as a Game Programming Language: Is it any good?

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We have moved lightyears away from the the handheld gaming days. The good old Tetris and Mario games were easy to use, low on...

Packt partners with Humble Bundle to bring readers a stash of game development content

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Once again, we've teamed up with the guys at Humble Bundle to bring game developers - professional, hobbyists, or complete newbies - a huge...
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Unity Benchmark report approves WebAssembly load times and performance in popular web browsers

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Unity has released a benchmarking report after two years since the last Unity Benchmark report comparing the performance and load times of WebAssembly with asm.js....
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Vulkan memory model: Vulkan becomes the world’s first graphics API to include a formal...

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Yesterday, the Khronos Group announced that its Vulkan API (modern cross-platform graphics and compute API) has become the world’s first graphics API to include...
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Unity releases ML-Agents toolkit v0.5 with Gym interface, a new suite of learning environments

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In their commitment to become the go-to platform for Artificial Intelligence, Unity has released a new version of their ML-Agents Toolkit.  ML-Agents toolkit v0.5...
AI in games

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can turbocharge a Game Developer’s career

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Gaming - whether board games or games set in the virtual realm - has been a massively popular form of entertainment since time immemorial....

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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