game engine
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A Year Later, Unity Cancels Controversial Runtime Fees Completely
Unity is canceling its controversial Runtime Fee and returning to a more traditional subscription model for its popular video game engine used by small and big developers worldwide. However, the price of some subscription plans will increase next year. A year ago, in September 2023, Unity announced a seismic change to how it charged developers…
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Why Do People Care So Much About Game Engines?
Game engines. Why do they matter to anybody except the people that use them to make games? I’ve never been able to understand it. I’ve played plenty of great games made in Unity, RPGMaker and more engines that are considered ‘mid’. My philosophy has always been that it doesn’t matter what you use as long…
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New Unreal Engine Renders Even More Realistic Grizzled White Men
During last week’s Game Developers Conference members of Gears of War developer The Coalition debuted an “Alpha Point” technical demo showing off the environments and effects possible in Unreal Engine 5. More importantly, the team released a character rendering test, proving that the future of rendering big, burly, bearded white guys in games is safe…