geeks3d.com — AMD/ATI has updated several tools and libraries for graphics developers to analyze your GPU applications, optimize performance, compress and optimize meshes and textures. read more...
emergent.net — Emergent Game Technologies is proud to announce Gamebryo™ 2.6, the world’s most flexible game development framework. This release solidifies Gamebryo’s leading position as the only true cross-platform, multi-genre, any-core game engine. Gamebryo supports all of today’s most popular targets – including capabilities for the Wii that are available nowhere else. read more...
dxstudio.com — In line with the recent release of DX Studio Version 3, software developers Worldweaver Ltd have just launched a competition for the best game demo made using the DX Studio platform. With a deadline of midnight (GMT) 20th December it only gives teams 80 days to get from scratch to a complete game. “This is the first time we have offered a cash prize for any of our competitions. We have no idea what sort of games will be submitted as DX Studio is not tied into any particular style” said founder Chris Sterling. read more...
gamedev.net — World Machine Software recently released the long in development successor to World Machine 1.0. The application offers a wide range of sophisticated tools for creating and customizing realistic looking terrains. World Machine 2.0 is currently being used within the Crysis mod community as well as many other major game studios. It's basic version is free to check out. read more...
intelishade.net — InteliShade is a Visual Studio plugin allowing you to have code outlining and intellisense when editing Effect files in your projects. InteliShade 3.0 supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and is available as a free download. read more...
caligari.com — The professional Modelling Software: trueSpace 7.6 is now free on the Caligari website. This software is about a 400 dollar value and should make a great addition to your game creation toolkits. read more...
news.developer.nvidia.com — PerfHUD 6 Beta 2 is the second public beta of PerfHUD. NVIDIA PerfHUD is a powerful real-time performance analysis tool for Direct3D applications. PerfHUD 6.0 includes many new features: * Supports GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs * SLI Support * Texture Visualization and Overrides * API Call List * Draw Call Dependency View * New CPU/GPU Timing graph * Instant Feedback (Hit F4 in PerfHUD to send comments/suggestions directly to the PerfHUD team) read more...
Suggest a new category