Epic Games has announced the pre-release of Unreal Engine 5. It is open for everyone to get acquainted and work. So far, the engine is available exclusively as part of early access.

The Defold game engine has a new strong partner. The Defold Foundation organization that owns it has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Minsk-based game studio Melsoft Games.

The authors of Candy Crush Saga have changed the license type of one of their technical solutions. Since today, the “sources” of the Defold engine have become available to developers.

The owners of the Marmalade SDK mobile game development engine have announced that they are ceasing to invest in it. The main reason is the increased competition in recent years. Most gaming teams today prefer to use Unity and Unreal.

The other day Epic Games introduced an updated version of the Unreal Engine. Its serial number is 4.20. Among the key innovations: mobile optimization, the appearance of Proxy LOD and support for realistic depth of field.

Epic Games turns into a rich kind uncle. The company has changed the terms of payments in its asset store. Instead of the standard 70%, it now pays 88% to content authors from each purchase.

The Corona game engine has started accepting applications from game developers to participate in the publishing program. Its participants will be helped with cross-promotion and purchase of users.

Corona is now not partially, but completely free game development engine.

Epic Games company in the blog of the Unreal Engine game engine announced the release of its new version – 4.16. One of the key features of the update was support for Nintendo Switch.

The other day, on May 22, the GameMaker Studio game engine celebrated five years since the release of the first version.

The creators of the “code-free” Buildbox game engine will provide subscribers with assets worth $ 100 thousand.

The company has released the Lumberyard Beta 1.7 beta, which includes 403 improvements and fixes. The main focus in the updated version is on the UI and UX of the engine.

The Japanese company GMO Cloud has acquired exclusive rights to use the Marmalade game development toolkit.

The developer of the MonoGame framework, on which Bastion and Axiom Verge were created, told the publication 80.lv about the capabilities of the package and work on it. We provide a translation of the material.

A new version of the Unity game engine – Unity 5.5 – has become available to developers. The key innovation is full support for HoloLens.

The latest version of Unreal is available from November 15. Most of the innovations in it relate to visualization and performance.

The announcement and release into closed beta of a new version of the game engine for the development of two—dimensional games GameMaker – Studio 2 took place.

George Scotto, Director of Business Development at Crytek, told about his plans in the market, the target audience and competition with other engines in an interview with Develop. We present a brief version of the material in Russian.

The beta version of the next update to the Unity engine has become available for download – Unity 5.5. About the most important innovations – in our material.