Developer Lars Doucet presented a detailed analysis of the most common game engines on Steam. To do this, together with the SteamDB website, he collected a large amount of data about the titles in the Valve store and the tools with which they were made.

Tens of thousands of games are available on Steam today. Thanks to the new free tool, you can now view all the engines and technologies that developers used to create projects for this site.The project was developed by Lars Doucet, co-founder of the Level Up Labs studio, together with the SteamDB website.

At the end of June, Unity updated the licensing rules for its engine without public announcements. The changes affected the developers of games for closed platforms. Now it will be impossible to create projects for Xbox without a Pro subscription.The rules came into force on June 30.

A Reddit user found out which engines are most often used in the most highly rated games on Steam. It turned out that in the top 50 last year, almost 50% of projects were made on Unity. This engine is ahead of competitors, including Unreal, by a large margin.Such conclusions were reached by the user wx3labs, who shared the results of his small research on a popular site.

Amazon decided to significantly upgrade its Lumberyard technology and turned it into an open source engine. It is called Open 3D Engine and is suitable for creating cross-platform AAA games. The developers note that there will be dozens of different tools in the new modular engine.Lumberyard was originally based on the CryEngine engine, which Amazon licensed from Crytek in 2015.

The developers of the open source Godot engine presented version 3.3. Work on it was carried out for seven months. Among the main innovations are the web version of the editor, a new API for iOS plugins, support for M1 chips, as well as improved rendering tools, multithreading and working with HTML5.Web Editor in Godot 3.3

On the Cocos Creator game engine, you can now fully work with three-dimensional graphics. The authors of the platform have launched Cocos Creator 3.0, a version of the framework that combines the functions of the company’s previous 2D and 3D products.

Epic Games has introduced an update for the Unreal Engine. A number of significant changes have been added to the engine version 4.26, including a new system of water and clouds, as well as an editor for creating realistic hair and wool.

The Russian UNIGINE engine has received a large-scale update. The developers have added new features to it, which can also be used for game development. Among them are updated clouds and a new smoothing technology.

Cocos creator Zhe Wang said that in 2018 alone, his engine was used in 45% of all Chinese mobile projects, and this figure was 30% worldwide. He called his product fast food in comparison with Unreal Engine and talked about plans for its development.What is the reason for such great popularity?

The most popular game engine in the UK is Unity. 72% of local studios are developing games on it.

A few days ago, a new version of the two-dimensional Corona game engine was released. Among the central innovations of version 2018.3326 is support for Facebook Instant Games and Direct Games in VKontakte.

Slovak startup Lubos has made the Armory version 0.4 3D game engine publicly available. Lubos is known as the author of the popular software package for three-dimensional modeling Blender.

Unity Technologies has released a new version of the popular Unity game engine — 2018.1. The update introduces new tools for working with graphics, physics, creating three-dimensional models and animation.

Employees of the Terminal Reality studio filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation. According to the developers, Microsoft illegally uses the company’s graphics technologies.

Former vice president of BioWare, Aaryn Flynn, told why the company began using the Frostbite game engine instead of the Eclipse engine of its own design.

Unity Technologies has posted header files to Unity sources and its C# editor on GitHub. The company shared information so that game developers could better understand the device and the capabilities of the engine.

Snapchat messenger developer Snap Inc. has acquired the creators of the PlayCanvas game engine. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The revenue from using the CryEngine engine will have to be shared. Crytek is preparing to introduce royalties in the amount of 5% of revenue from games created on CryEngine. The new rule will take effect in the new version of CryEngine 5.5, which is already available for download.