COCOS 4 Is Here, Fully Open Source

COCOS, the globally renowned provider of game engines and development tools fully acquired by SUD, today announced the full ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

The Open 3D Engine adds improved terrain creation and collaboration tools

For a long time, the world of 3D engines — especially for game developers — was all about Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine. Then, when Amazon started its ill-fated attempt to get into gaming, it ...
Engadget

Amazon open-sources its in-house game engine

Amazon made its Lumberyard game engine free to use from the outset, but it's now opening development of the technology to everyone, too. GamesBeat reports that Amazon has made Lumberyard an open ...
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 ...
Polygon

Terraria devs donate $200K to open-source engines in wake of Unity changes

Unity might be facing the ire that comes with a near-universal condemnation of a new policy change, but at least things are looking up for two open-source game engines. On Tuesday, the developers of ...
Game Rant

Avowed Could Be Unreal Engine 5’s First Open-World Test

The gaming community still has yet to receive an official release date for Avowed, though some Xbox insiders have suggested it could release in early 2023. If it's released early next year (or even ...
Game Rant

Ubisoft's Open-World Star Wars: Snowdrop Engine Details and Past Games

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...
Flightglobal

RTX filed open-rotor engine patents but keeps focus on next-generation GTF

RTX in recent years filed patent applications for technologies related to open-rotor engines, though the company insists it remains committed to developing an updated geared turbofan (GTF) for ...
New Atlas

GE and NASA to give open-rotor jet engine systems a spin

GE Aviation and NASA will run a wind tunnel test program over the northern summer to evaluate and test counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open-rotor jet engine designs. The newly improved rig for ...
Hackaday

The DIY Open Crank Engine Moped

Anyone can strap a two-stroke engine on a bicycle to create a moped. But [robinhooodvsyou] has created something infinitely more awesome. He’s built an inverted open crank engine on a 10 speed bicycle ...