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We have long been a fan of the Defold Game Engine (check out full tutorial series here). Defold is a cross platform (including consoles!) completely free source available 2D and 2.5D game engine. Like most modern 2D game engines, it’s actually fully 3D under the hood, just with tooling that […]
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Godot recently released an interesting article on their website breaking down the open-source Godot game engine’s growth over the last few years. The over all framing of the article is as follows: I like to keep track of Godot’s growth. Since we don’t have any tracking information in the engine
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Unity AI beta has just been launched and is available for all Unity version 6+. This is a completely different version than the tire fire that was Unity Muse. This new iteration of Unity AI brings agentic control of Unity, MCP control, Unity chat and of course a suite of
Unity AI Beta Launched Read More
It’s time for the Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from May 5th – May 19th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains 3 Unreal Engine assets as well as 1 Unity asset, but as you can
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Earlier this week the Blender Foundation announced a corporate patron level donation from a fairly unlikely source – Anthropic AI. To say this was a bit polarizing in the community is a bit of an understatement. Today, Blender CEO Francesco Siddi released the following statement about upcoming changes around the
Blender x Anthropic – The Fallout Read More
Gaussian Splats are increasingly popular in the world of computer graphics (see our recent coverage of Gaussian Splats in Godot), yet they have traditionally been a poor fit for game development for a variety of reasons including the lack of collision data, file sizes and other issues compared to a
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Earlier this week we covered the release of Facepunch Studio’s S&Box game engine. This is a spiritual successor to their popular sandbox playground Gary’s Mod. Additionally this time around S&Box is a full blown game engine, using an open source C# layer over top of Valve’s Source 2 game engine.
Troubles in the S&Box? Read More
GameMaker have just released their Spring 2026 update and outlined what we can expect in the near future from the long running game engine. A lot of the core functionality is coming in the new GMRT which will be leaving beta on a number of platforms this year. Highlights of
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The Blender Foundation have a brand new corporate patron at the highest published funding level (at least €240k per year) Anthropic AI. Anthropic are the creators of the incredibly popular LLM Claude. Details of the partnership from the Blender blog: Blender Foundation is happy to announce that Anthropic is joining
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S&box is a new game engine from Facepunch Studios as well as a spiritual successor to sandbox physics game Gary’s Mod. S&Box is a product with two sides, the game portal providing a gaming experience similar to UEFN or Roblox and the back end, a full game C# game engine
S&Box Game Engine – Gary’s Mod 2 Successor Launched Read More
