ILMxLAB launches Star Wars: Project Porg on Magic Leap One
ILMxLAB has released Star Wars: Project Porg, a “public experiment in mixed reality storytelling,” as an exclusive experience on the Magic Leap One Creator...
Unity scraps TOS change in dispute with Improbable, schedules Reddit chat
Unity Technologies backed down on its previous stance in a dispute that erupted last week with SpatialOS platform maker Improbable and rival game engine...
Epic, Improbable create $25 million fund to transition devs away from Unity
Unity found itself at the center of a controversy today, and now competitor Epic Games is turning up the heat. Unity is cutting off...
Crytek’s CryEngine update focuses on novice game devs
CryEngine is the other major game-dev toolkit. To continue competing with Unreal and Unity, Crytek has updated it to version 5.5 with 1,000-plus improvements.
Porsche concept car shows off real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine
Porsche has used Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Nvidia’s graphics chips to design its own cars. The companies showed a demo, dubbed Speed of...
Unity’s asset store boss has big plans to fight Epic’s Unreal
Last week, Epic Games surprised developers when it revealed that it would begin giving more money from each sale on the Unreal Engine Marketplace...
Unreal Engine windfall: Asset devs plan to pay off student loans and more
Epic shook up the payment model for its Unreal Engine (UE) Marketplace yesterday when it revealed it will now pay out 88 percent of...
Fortnite creator Epic gives Unreal asset creators a raise and backpay
The universe has a few constants. You’re going to die, you have to pay taxes, and if you sell something on someone else’s platform,...
Epic Games awards $1 million in Unreal Dev Grants to 37 teams
Epic Games is opening up its Fortnite money vault to award 37 game development teams with a total of $1 million in Unreal Dev...
When anyone can make games, ‘soul’ will make some rise to the top
As exciting as the democratization of game development may sound, it's problematic in practice. Pretty soon, it's going to be easier than ever to make a game, but harder than ever to convince people to give it a chance.