Category: Game Dev

Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.

Continuing to show how great open source is, the Blender team have released Blender 3.5 with some really fancy new features.

AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they've done a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting for future games.

Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.

Last year AMD announced FSR version 2.2 and today AMD has actually released the source code on GitHub for FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2.

Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.

As Google hover over the nuke from orbit button on Stadia, they're at least releasing some of it as open source like CDC File Transfer.

Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.

As part of their original initiative about sharing patent pledge to not go after others on accessibility, EA have recently released Fonttik as open source to help game developers. Not only that, they've pledged more of their patents to this goal.

Blender, the absolute power-house free and open source 3D creation suite, has a big release out with Blender 3.4 and it's awesome.

With Godot Engine 4.0 slowly approaching release, the developers are still hooking up some huge features to this free and open source game engine like a Movie Maker.

Epic Games announced that Unreal Engine 5.1 is now available, and along with all the usual big new features, they continued improving their Linux support in this release.

Here's a fun one for open source fans and game developers, as YoYo Games have open sourced their HTML5 runtime.

Available now under a BSD license, today NVIDIA put up the NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK as open source which is great to see from team green.

The free and open source game engine Godot Engine continues to grow, and now the team behind it has formed a Godot Foundation to continue funding it.

W4 Games is a new company from the creator of Godot Engine along with long-time contributors, and now they've managed to gain plenty of funding.

Today the Vulkan API specification 1.3.226 was released and it brings with it an exciting new extension with VK_EXT_mesh_shader.

Here's a very interesting development for the world of the open source Godot Engine, as a new company named W4 Games has been formed to push it further than ever before.

Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.