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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.
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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.

Unity continues laying off staff as troubles continue

By Liam Dawe,
After all the mess that was the Unity fees situation, the troubles continue, with another round of layoffs at the game engine developer.

Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti

By Liam Dawe,
Minetest, a voxel game engine created to be something like a Minecraft clone, is finally smashing apart the chains to become more its own unique thing.

Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee

By Liam Dawe,
After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee.

Godot Engine 4.3 is out now with huge new features and a fancy release page

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like the Godot team went all-out for the Godot Engine 4.3 release, bringing this royalty-free open source game engine into a bright future.

Minetest 5.9.0 brings performance improvements, a godrays shader and work towards SDL2

By Liam Dawe,
The latest release of Minetest with version 5.9.0 is out now, bringing new features and work towards using SDL2 for this free and open source voxel game engine.

RPG Maker / Pixel Game Maker devs move to Godot for Action Game Maker

By Liam Dawe,
Gotcha Gotcha Games known for the RPG Maker series and Pixel Game Maker have announced Action Game Maker and it's being made with the open source Godot Engine.

Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Surge Engine is a 2D retro game engine with an included Sonic-like game (Surge the Rabbit) for anyone who wants to make their own platformers like classic Sonic. The developers just released a big new version.

Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio

By Liam Dawe,
GB Studio is a free and open source cross-platform game engine, that allows you to make fully-features games for the classic Nintendo Game Boy.
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