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Unreal Engine 5.1 rolled out with plenty of Linux improvements
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.
Category: Game Dev
YoYo Games open source the GameMaker HTML5 runtime
Here's a fun one for open source fans and game developers, as YoYo Games have open sourced their HTML5 runtime.
NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK goes open source
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.
Godot Engine now has its own dedicated Foundation for funding
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 raised $8.5 million USD to support Godot Engine
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.
Cross-vendor Mesh Shading for the Vulkan API is now here
Today the Vulkan API specification 1.3.226 was released and it brings with it an exciting new extension with VK_EXT_mesh_shader.
W4 Games formed to help developers using Godot Engine
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.
Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.
Unreal Engine 5 editor quietly gets a proper Linux version
I'm not entirely sure when this went live but it appears that Epic Games have finally released a full proper download of Unreal Engine for Linux developers.
Epic Games now supporting the O3D Foundation and Open 3D Engine
The O3D Foundation, who oversee the free and open source Open 3D Engine, have announced that Epic Games are now officially one of their supporters.
Unity to 'merge' with ironSource with a buzzword salad press release
Unity Technologies, the company behind ridiculously popular proprietary game engine Unity has announced a merger with another company called ironSource which is raising some eyebrows.
Devs are discovering the Steam Deck is good for making games too
Part of the power of the Steam Deck is that not only is it a great portable for gaming, it's Linux and has a full desktop mode and so you can also create games with it.
AMD publishes the source code for FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2)
As they promised they would, AMD has now officially published the source code for FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) under an open source license.
Epic Online Services gets free cross-play tooling that will support Linux
Epic Games just announced a big upgrade to Epic Online Services, which will now include a full toolkit to enable developers to do cross-play.
LightSpeed Studios (Tencent) joins the Open 3D Foundation
LightSpeed Studios, owned by Tencent, has joined up with the Open 3D Foundation who oversee the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).
AMD announce Radeon Memory Visualizer support for Linux
AMD announced yesterday that they're now supporting the Radeon Memory Visualizer on Linux, as a result of "the rising popularity of gaming on the Linux OS".
Godot Engine 3.5 RC 1 is up with a new asynchronous shader compilation system
Godot Engine 3.5 is getting close to release with a first Release Candidate available for developers to test the next version of this open source game engine.
Open 3D Engine v22.05 out, O3DCon in October with proposals open
Originally Amazon Lumberyard that was donated to open source, the Open 3D Foundation just announced a big new release and they have an annual conference coming up.
Microsoft joined the Open 3D Foundation for the Open 3D Engine
Here's a missed one from Friday, Microsoft has joined the Open 3D Foundation, who oversee the Open 3D Engine that's a free and open source updated version of Amazon Lumberyard that was contributed by Amazon.
Unreal Engine 5 has officially launched, lots of Linux and Vulkan improvements
After being available in Early Access since May 2021 and Preview since February 2022, Epic Games has today released Unreal Engine 5 which will no doubt go on to power some of the biggest upcoming releases.
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