Deadhaus Sonata uses the Open 3D Engine.
Deadhaus Sonata uses the Open 3D Engine.
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The DeanBeat: The week in the console and game engine wars

In what was supposed to be the quietest of weeks, we got some real news. Amazon announced that would open-source its Lumberyard game engine as the Open 3D Engine, overseen by the Linux Foundation and supported by 20 companies. Then Our Machinery announced its lightweight and hackable game engine, The Machinery.

And Nintendo announced it would ship the Nintendo Switch OLED model with a new screen and slightly better audio. It fell short of having rumored features that would be likely part of a still possible Nintendo Switch Pro. It’s got a better OLED screen, but it doesn’t run 4K graphics even though it will cost $350 when it debuts in October at $50 more than the regular Switch.

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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.