A warrior from Deadhaus Sonata, built with the Open 3D Engine.
A warrior from Deadhaus Sonata, built with the Open 3D Engine.
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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.