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GPU Reshape is a fancy new open source tool for developers

By Liam Dawe,
1
A fresh announcement for developers today is GPU Reshape, a free and open source tool that could be really useful for game developers working with Vulkan and DirectX 12 to deal with potentially undefined behaviour.
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GodotOS is a fun showcase of Godot Engine with a fake operating system interface

By Liam Dawe,
13
No GodotOS is not another Linux distribution or desktop environment, it's an open source fake operating system interface made in Godot Engine, designed to push the limits of UI design in Godot. It's also just really cool.
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Valve announces new rules for games with AI Content on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
16
Valve have now confirmed their rules for game developers using AI generated content on Steam, and while they're not banning AI they are going to ensure it's clearly stated for players.
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Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring

By Liam Dawe,
10
Ouch. We're only just into week 2 of 2024 and Unity Software are cutting away a huge amount of their staff, as things aren't looking great for the Unity game engine.
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Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support

By Liam Dawe,
14
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
8
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.
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W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
17
W4 Games, the company set up by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, along with veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato just received a rather large sum of funding.
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EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming

By Liam Dawe,
11
EA (Electronic Arts) have added a few more patents to their Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility to help game developers.
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ControllerImage provides easy on-screen prompts for game developers

By Liam Dawe,
11
Developer and game porter Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has created a new library named ControllerImage for game developers, with an aim to help showing on-screen controller prompts
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Godot Engine 4.2 is out now with AMD FSR 2.2 and lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
1
Godot Engine 4.2 is officially released bringing with it a great many improvements for developers using this popular free and open source game engine.
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GameMaker now free for non-commercial use, one-time fee for indie devs

By Liam Dawe,
4
Seems like GameMaker are trying to eat some of Unity's lunch here after the mess that was Unity's install fee plan, GameMaker have made it much easier for developers to use it (and cheaper).
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Mega Crit (Slay the Spire) and Null Games now funding Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
1
More good news for the free and open source Godot Engine, as they've announced two more fun names have joined in to help fund further development.
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Unity update their terms to clarify new terms aren't forced on game devs

By Liam Dawe,
7
Now that the dust seems to be settling after the absolute chaos that was the new Runtime Fee announcement and the developer fallout that followed, Unity has now properly updated their Unity Editor Software Terms.
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War Thunder game engine Dagor Engine from Gaijin now open source

By Liam Dawe,
10
This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.
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Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option

By Liam Dawe,
8
Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.
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Godot 4.2 beta 1 is out now for testing

By Liam Dawe,
9
The Godot team are preparing the next release of their free and open source game engine, with Godot 4.2 beta 1 now available for anyone to jump in and test it.
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Valve locking down publishing Steam builds with SMS codes due to Malware

By Liam Dawe,
18
Valve announced recently some new changes for developers publishing public builds to their games on Steam, requiring a phone number and a text message confirmation code.
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Open 3D Engine (O3DE) 23.10 open source game engine released

By Liam Dawe,
7
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) has a big new release out, which includes plenty of new features and fixes for game developers looking to use this free and open source game engine.
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Unity CEO John Riccitiello is leaving 'effective immediately'

By Liam Dawe,
50
Unity has announced that President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors - John Riccitiello, is leaving "effective immediately".
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Puny Human closing after a client 'refused previously agreed-upon payments'

By Liam Dawe,
12
Some more sad industry news here as developer Puny Human put out a press release noting that they're closing up, citing an unnamed client that refused to pay them.
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