Mira raises $1M for their AR headset Prism
Monday, September 25, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Mira has recently raised $1 million Seed Plus funding round led by Greylock Partners, Founders Fund Angel, and Macro Ventures, bringing Mira’s total funding raised to date to $2.5 million. The additional funding will be used to provide more resources to the burgeoning developer community and bolster Mira’s content partnership initiatives. Additionally, Mira announced th...
Autodesk Adds New VR and 3D Animation Functionality for Game Development
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Autodesk has released the latest version of its Autodesk Maya LT 20173D animation and modeling software for indie game developers. The company has also released Autodesk Stingray 1.4, offering updates to the 3D game engine and real-time rendering solution.Autodesk says that one of the most significant features added to the Maya LT platform is the time editor, a new tool...
AWS Releases Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift for Game Development
Monday, February 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
AWS has launched two new products for game developers, Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift.Amazon LumberyardAmazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers to create games, connect their games to the compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even non-technical users can a...
Autodesk Releases New Stingray 3D Game Engine
Monday, August 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Game developers will be able to take a test drive of Autodesk’s new Stingray game engine beginning on August 19, 2015.The new game engine is built on the Bitsquid engine, which Autodesk purchased in 2014, offering a new platform for making 3D games. The engine supports a number of industry-standard game development workflows and includes connectivity to Autodesk’s 3D an...
Autodesk Acquires Bitsquid AB Game Engine with Plans to Utilize the Technology Outside the Game Industry
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Autodesk has acquired Bitsquid AB, the creator of the Bitsquid game engine. The acquisition allows Autodesk to tap into the expertise in 3D game development and technology that will enable Autodesk to enhance its portfolio of tools for game makers through the development of a new 3D game engine. The new technology will also be incorporated into solutions ...
New Gamebase Reach3dx Game Engine to Power Web and Mobile Games
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Gamebase has launched its new cross platform Reach3dx Game 3D game engine which provides support for iOS, Android, HTML5, and Flash. Based on the OpenFL framework and Haxe, Reach3dx facilitates a creative environment highly familiar to the existing development community.“There are two main goals of Reach3dx. The first is to provide cross-platform renderin...
GDC Europe 2013 to Include Content on Mobile Online Gaming Development
Monday, July 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
GDC Europe 2013 organizers have announced a collection of industry presentations featuring an entire day boot camp covering Google Play Game Services, Cloud, and Mobile App Analytics as well as Havok sessions on its 3D game engine for mobile.
The boot camp is held during the three-day conference to be held August 19th-21st in Cologne, Germany. The event precedes the Ga...
Project Anarchy By Havok Releases Free 3D Game Engine
Monday, July 8, 2013 by Richard Harris
Havok, who is owned by Intel and is behind the gaming engine for Assassin's Creed and Halo 4, has gone live with its free Project Anarchy 3D game engine for iOS, Android and Tizen. Project Anarchy is a end to end game engine and toolset for mobile. It integrates Havok's Vision Engine providing a C++ API and a suite of tools ranging from a WYSIWYG editor to lighting...
Busy, Busy, Busy App Developers
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Summer of 2013 is in full swing now and with the closing of the WWDC, and the Google Developer Conference (I/O), and the starting of the Build Microsoft Conference - we app developers are finding it a bit difficult to keep up with all of the happenings around the globe. From changing API's to new OS's, all the way to enhanced hardware support and 3D game engines, it...
Project Anarchy 3D Game Engine Launches COMPLETELY FREE
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Project Anarchy includes Havok’s Vision Engine together with access to Havok’s industry-leading suite of Physics, Animation and AI tools as used in cutting-edge franchises such as Skyrim™, Halo, Assassin’s Creed®, Uncharted and Skylanders. With features like an extensible C++ architecture, a flexible asset management system, advanced Lua debugging and customizable game ...
