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Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 878 posts.
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First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
Parsecs technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the high performance remote desktop…
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0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of 0AD Alpha 25: “Yaunā,” the twenty-fifth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of …
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Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering.
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play
In recent years, artificial intelligence agents have succeeded in a range of complex game environments. For instance, AlphaZero beat world-champion programs in chess, shogi, and Go after starting out with knowing no more than the basic rules of how to play. Through reinforcement learning (RL), this single system…
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Mixed Reality with Passthrough
Today we’re excited to introduce Passthrough API Experimental—a way to build and test apps that seamlessly blend the real and virtual worlds and open up new possibilities for mixed reality experiences.
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MGBA Integration: Introducing the Integrated GBA
Your eyes are not deceiving you. As of 5.0-14690, Dolphin now has mGBA directly built into it as a new way to handle Game Boy Advance connectivity with GameCube titles. For those who don't know, mGBA is the most renowned and accurate GBA emulator of this era and has been…
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The Blender Studio Pipeline
First of a series of articles focused on the research and development of a fully open source CG production pipeline.
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Stockfish 14
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Blender and the Rabbids
Julien Blervaque and Yannick Castaing, Ubisoft Film & Television, share the experience of using Blender for Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars.
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SimCities and SimCrises (2017)
International City Gaming Conference 2017 keynote.
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TDD from the Factorio Team
Hello, long time no see :) We obviously have a lot to talk about when it comes to the game changes we recently did, or plan to do, but we don't want to share any of it yet. Yet, there is currently a topic very relevant to us and we can share it without revealing any specific changes to the game. Today's post will be…
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Dolphin Emulator - Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021
After finishing up the macOS M1 article the blog staff took a little break. Then they saw the date. Upon looking at the actual changelog, however, something became readily apparent: this wasn't going to be just a progress report; this was going to be a MEGA Progress Report. The long rumored time era of developers…
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The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (2010)
OK, since no one is posting, you get to endure another Monopoly post! After our recent attempt to play the shortest actual game of Monopoly on record, we started to wonder about what the shortest T…
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would be possible. Now we have the answer. Apple's M1 hardware is…
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A VR Frame’s Life
This blog post will take you through a VR frame’s lifecycle, explaining the end-to-end process from frame generation to final display.
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Counter-Strike Global Offsets: reliable remote code execution
One of the factors contributing to Counter-Strike Global Offensive’s (herein “CS:GO”) massive popularity is the ability for anyone to host their own community server. These community servers are free to download and install and allow for a high grade of customization. Server administrators can create and utilize…
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Anim State Graph: Node-Based Animation Editor for WebGL
We’re excited to be able to release a new system for creating fantastic and high fidelity animations in PlayCanvas!
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Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)
Hello! I’m Masami Ueda, a music composer at PlatinumGames, here to write about some of my work on NieR:Automat […]
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Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir
Running Elixir on Fly.io let me easily create a globally distributed, privately networked, clustered, multi-player game server! Here's how.
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Leaving No Pixel Behind: Three Years in Xenia's GPU Emulation
xenia is a BSD licensed open source research project for emulating Xbox 360 games on modern PCs.
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Cycles X
Celebrating 10 years of the Cycles render engine, and sharing what is next.
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Godot 3.3
All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3, after more than 7 months of development! This release was initially planned as a 3.2.4 update to the 3.2 branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch.
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Porting Doom to the Fastly edge serverless platform
id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product.