Hackaday

Open 3D Engine: Amazon’s Old Clothes Or A Game Engine To Truly Get Excited About?

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), this ...
VentureBeat

Cocos adds 3D to its open source 2D game engine with Cocos Creator 3.0

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the third dimension with Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos is including its first ...
LinuxInsider

New Open 3D Engine Game-Changing for Developers

The Linux Foundation (LF), Amazon, and more than 20 other gaming companies hope to make open-source game playing more of a win-win technology for both developers and players. LF on Tuesday announced ...
VentureBeat

Amazon takes on Unity, Unreal, Stingray, and more with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine

Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard, a free 3D game engine; and GameLift, a service for quickly building backends for ...
Hackaday

3d engine

The Raspberry Pi RP2040 is versatile and cheap, but it’s by no means known as the most powerful microcontroller on the world. Regardless, it is capable of great things, as demonstrated by [Bernhard ...
GamesIndustry

What is the best game engine: is Amazon Lumberyard right for you?

Update: Lumberyard is no longer offered by Amazon following the announcement of Open 3D Engine in July 2021. For developers just starting in the industry, the task of choosing the best game engine can ...
Forbes

A New 3D Game Engine That Means Business

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Today at AWE (Augmented World Expo) Online, Alan Smithson of ...
GameSpot

Camelot to get new 3D engine

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Mythic Entertainment has announced that it will use version 4.2 of Numerical Design Limited's NetImmerse 3D engine in Dark Age of Camelot, its popular ...
TechCrunch

Snap reportedly bought its very own 3D game engine

Snapchat’s parent company bought a web-based 3D game engine startup out of the UK this past May, Business Insider (paywalled) reports. PlayCanvas is a development tool focused on letting people easily ...
Macworld

Unity 3D game engine goes Universal

Over the Edge has released Unity v1.5, a new version of their 3D gaming engine for Mac OS X. Unity is available in “Indie” and “Pro” versions for $249 and $1,499 respectively. It’s a free upgrade for ...
Ars Technica

Unreal Engine is now royalty-free until a game makes a whopping $1 million

Since the rise of Fortnite as a popular game and Unreal Engine 4 as a popular game-making toolkit, Epic Games, the studio behind both, has been keen to capitalize on this momentum. That has included ...