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Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.

Blender 3.5 is out now with fancy new hair

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to show how great open source is, the Blender team have released Blender 3.5 with some really fancy new features.

AMD detail more on FSR 3 and their new open source FidelityFX SDK

By Liam Dawe,
AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they've done a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting for future games.

Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.

AMD releases source code for FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2

By Liam Dawe,
Last year AMD announced FSR version 2.2 and today AMD has actually released the source code on GitHub for FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2.

Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe,
Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.

Google open sourced CDC File Transfer from the ashes of Stadia

By Liam Dawe,
As Google hover over the nuke from orbit button on Stadia, they're at least releasing some of it as open source like CDC File Transfer.

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Dawe,
Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

Vulkan Video 1.0 released with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.

EA open source Fonttik, helps devs check text size & contrast — plus patent pledges

By Liam Dawe,
As part of their original initiative about sharing patent pledge to not go after others on accessibility, EA have recently released Fonttik as open source to help game developers. Not only that, they've pledged more of their patents to this goal.

Blender 3.4 is out now with Wayland support on Linux, Intel's Open Path Guiding added

By Liam Dawe,
Blender, the absolute power-house free and open source 3D creation suite, has a big release out with Blender 3.4 and it's awesome.

Godot Engine 4.0 gets a Movie Maker

By Liam Dawe,
With Godot Engine 4.0 slowly approaching release, the developers are still hooking up some huge features to this free and open source game engine like a Movie Maker.

Unreal Engine 5.1 rolled out with plenty of Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games announced that Unreal Engine 5.1 is now available, and along with all the usual big new features, they continued improving their Linux support in this release.

YoYo Games open source the GameMaker HTML5 runtime

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a fun one for open source fans and game developers, as YoYo Games have open sourced their HTML5 runtime.

NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
Available now under a BSD license, today NVIDIA put up the NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK as open source which is great to see from team green.

Godot Engine now has its own dedicated Foundation for funding

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source game engine Godot Engine continues to grow, and now the team behind it has formed a Godot Foundation to continue funding it.

W4 Games raised $8.5 million USD to support Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
W4 Games is a new company from the creator of Godot Engine along with long-time contributors, and now they've managed to gain plenty of funding.

Cross-vendor Mesh Shading for the Vulkan API is now here

By Liam Dawe,
Today the Vulkan API specification 1.3.226 was released and it brings with it an exciting new extension with VK_EXT_mesh_shader.

W4 Games formed to help developers using Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a very interesting development for the world of the open source Godot Engine, as a new company named W4 Games has been formed to push it further than ever before.

Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.
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