The Chinese government have just announced new regulations that will have a MASSIVE impact on the world of game development. It immediately resulted in huge stock market losses for China’s two largest gaming companies Tencent and NetEase. The announcement is a crackdown on “gacha” style monetization strategies, loot boxes and …

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There are a pair of Humble Bundles for game developers, the Unreal Engine Space & SciFi Mastery Kit and the Unity DragonSan Studio Flash Sale. The DragonSan Flash Sale bundle only lasts a few days and consists of the following tiers: 5$ Tier Loot Icons Herbs Icons 10$ Tier Dwarves …

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Ultra Engine, a new game engine from the creators of the Leadwerks game engine and the Ultra App Kit UI library was just released in early access. The engine is making some pretty big performance claims, specifically 10x the performance of Unity! There are two versions of this engine, the …

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The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.18. This release is packed with new features including Direct3D 12 and Vulkan being default renderers, massive performance improvements across the board, new animation and rendering tools and much more. Highlight features of the Unigine 2.18 release include: Key Links Unigine Homepage Release …

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Earlier this month the popular sprite painting an animation application Aseprite released version 1.3. This is a milestone release, as the last point release Aseprite 1.2 was released all the way back in 2017. Key features of this release include: Tilemap/Tileset functionalityDark themeSkew transformationText fields for the transformationResize tags dragging …

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The Godot Foundation just announced a new 3 way partnership between Godot, Google and game engine experts The Forge to improve Vulkan support on mobile devices in the Godot game engine. Details of the announcement from the Godot blog: We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to …

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Godot lead developer Juan Linietsky recently tweeted several tweets about a new global illumination system for Godot, HDDAGI, or Hierarhcial Digital Differential Analyzer Global Illumination. This is meant to be a drop in replacement for SDFGI (Signed Distance Fields Global Illumination) released in Godot 4. Details of Godot HDDAGI: Key …

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For a VERY limited time, the Synty Best of Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle is back! This is part of the Holiday Encore round-up and will only be available for 2 days (ending Friday the 15th) and only available in limited quantities. The bundle first ran back in September and …

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The Epic Games v. Google lawsuit, first filed back in 2020, has just reached a jury verdict, with the jury finding for Epic Games on 11 of the 11 counts. Summary of the verdict from the Verge: After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to …

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W4 Games, the Godot focused development company which just received an additional $15M in funding, just announced pricing for W4 Console. W4 Console is described as: W4 Consoles is a middleware software that serves as a technology layer, enabling seamless portability of games across multiple target platforms (Nintendo Switch™, Xbox …

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