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Unity AI out in Open Beta to give developers the fabled "make game" button

By Liam Dawe,
AI, AI, AI - now in your game engine too! Unity has rolled out Unity AI in Open Beta that will apparently help games be created faster.

Classic survival horror Alone in the Dark gets a cross-platform reimplementation with enhancements

By Liam Dawe,
The original Alone in the Dark survival horror series has a fresh cross-platform game engine reimplementation, with lots of enhancements.
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Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

By Liam Dawe,
The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box

By Liam Dawe,
The spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod based on Valve's Source 2 is growing up, as you'll be able to create full standalone games with it.

ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" out now supporting more retro games

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" has been released bringing support for 8 new games along with various assorted fixes elsewhere.

Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB 0.9.5 gets Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playable

By Liam Dawe,
The developers working away on the Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB just released v0.9.5, bringing major classic RPG compatibility improvements.

Surge Engine for Sonic-like platformers gets improved gamepad support and a new audio system

By Liam Dawe,
Love classic Sonic games and other similar platformers? The Surge Engine and the included Surge the Rabbit game are great open source projects.

The free and open source Godot Engine 4.6 is out now with major upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Game developers should take a look at the brand new Godot Engine 4.6 release, bringing a big refresh to the popular cross-platform open source game engine.

GZDoom successor project UZDoom gets a first preview release

By Liam Dawe,
After the GZDoom implosion, the rest of the developers split off to form UZDoom and the first preview release has rolled out with some essential improvements.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) joins up with Open Collective Europe for funding

By Liam Dawe,
Hopefully making this excellent open source voxel game engine project more manageable, Luanti (formerly Minetest) has joined up with Open Collective Europe.

Gaijin Entertainment announced EdenSpark, an open source "AI-assisted" platform for making games

By Liam Dawe,
EdenSpark seemed like a pretty exciting announcement for game developers and the open source community, until you read about the AI generation involved.

Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom

By Liam Dawe,
Drama in open source land, as a major conflict has caused many developers to leave GZDoom behind to fork it into UZDoom.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.14 brings an improved minimap, particle improvements and UI tweaks

By Liam Dawe,
Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a fresh small release out with v5.14 bringing a couple of gameplay tweaks and various other improvements.

Godot 4.5 released with lots of big new features

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine 4.5 has been officially released further enhancing this free and open source cross-platform game engine.

JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Foundation announced that JetBrains have become a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine development, helping push this cross-platform open source game engine.

Godot 4.5 beta 1 brings Wayland improvements, shader baking, rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing.

ACTION GAME MAKER confirm plans for Linux support for the editor and game exports

By Liam Dawe,
ACTION GAME MAKER is the brand new release from Gotcha Gotcha Games, who are known for the RPG Maker series and it's good news for Linux fans.

Luanti (Minetest) v5.12 brings SDL2, keybind settings, reviews in the content browser

By Liam Dawe,
Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions. This release has been years in the making for the switch to modern SDL2, away from the very outdated Irrlicht.

Godot Engine 4.4 is out now with Jolt Physics, Ubershaders, Interactive in-game editing

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine 4.4 has been released bringing with it a plethora of advancements for game devs, so it might be time to give it another look.

Crytek lay off 15% of staff with Crysis 4 on hold

By Liam Dawe,
More news on some job losses today following the Unity game engine layoffs, we have Crytek also shedding staff and shelving Crysis 4.
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