games development
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Why Ray Tracing On Nvidia’s New GPUs Is So Exciting
1Nvidia recently announced new high-end graphics cards with an RTX designation attached to the model numbers—that RTX indicates the card’s enhanced ray tracing abilities, which could bring a whole new level of realism to games. Here’s what you need to know about ray tracing and how it’s going to feature on the graphics cards of…
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Sydney’s Microsoft Store Is Holding Free Game Development Workshops
Launching in partnership with Sydney’s flagship Microsoft Store and the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), the newly formed “Xbox Academy” is offering a three hour hands-on gaming workshop where you can learn coding, art, marketing and other aspects of development – for free.
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Making Games Just Got Cheaper: CryEngine Goes Freemium
CryEngine, the next-gen video game engine behind Crysis, Far Cry and Ryse is moving to a “pay what you want” model in a bid to make game creation more accessible to cash-strapped coders. This grants users unrestricted access to the engine and source code for free. (In other words, you now have no excuse not…
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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio Partnership with Epic, Unity and Cocos2d
Microsoft may have long-retired XNA, its .NET-based game development framework, but it’s still very much supporting games developers. Last year it released the Community Edition of Visual Studio, essentially a “full version” of its programming IDE for hobbyist and professionals alike, as well as Unity Tools for Visual Studio. Now it’s partnered with Epic, Unity…