Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5, two of the dominant game development engines in the industry, are now both available for free to anyone interested in trying their hand. Unreal developer Epic Games ...

The week of GDC 2015 came and went, and perhaps the biggest news outside of new developments on the virtual reality front, was related to game engines. Epic Games, Unity, and Valve released a triple ...

Unity Software (NYSE:U) is seeing continued fallout from its 2023 Runtime Fee controversy, with reports of developer losses in its core Create segment. The company is facing tougher competition from ...

Bottom line: Real-time ray tracing is the new holy grail in the world of video game graphics, and for good reason. When executed properly, the tech can significantly boost a game's visuals, improving ...

The industry’s two largest game engines, Unity and Unreal Engine, are now both officially supported by SteamVR, Valve’s full-featured ‘room-scale’ VR experience. The integration of the two game ...

Ask any game artist what they’re packing in their toolbox, and I guarantee the vast majority will name drop an Autodesk application. Being a game artist myself, I can’t remember a time where I didn’t ...

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 ...