Tencent acquires additional shares in FromSoftware parent company, Kadokawa

Tencent has increased its stake in FromSoftware's parent company, Kadokawa, by 1.11%, bringing its total shareholding ratio to 7.97%. Read more

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PTW rebrands as Side

Games outsourcing firm PTW has undergone a rebrand, uniting its subsidiaries 1518 Studios, audio services provider SIDE, and Ghostpunch Games under one brand name – Side. Read more

Rockstar Games acquires Video Games Deluxe, now known as Rockstar Australia

Rockstar Games has acquired Sydney-based developer Video Games Deluxe, rebranding it to Rockstar Australia. Read more

Capcom promotes Monster Hunter producer to chief product officer in charge of all development

Capcom's current executive corporate officer and chief product officer, Yoichi Egawa, will step down on April 1, with Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto assuming the latter role from that same date. Read more

Unity Finally Start Developing Games

GameFromScratch.com Unity Finally Start Developing Games One common request of the Unity development team is that they start developing games in-house, like their rival Epic Games does with Unreal Engine. This dog fooding will help them discover issues and pain points that developers using their tools daily commonly encounter. Back at GDC 2022 with the announcement The post Unity Finally Start Developing Games appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Babylon.js 8 Game Engine Released

GameFromScratch.com Babylon.js 8 Game Engine Released The popular 3D game engine/framework for the web, Babylon.js just released Babylon 8. This release comes a year after the release of Babylon 7, so this annual release is absolutely jam packed with new features. Highlight features of Babylon.js 8 include: IBL Shadows Image-Based Lighting is a computer graphics lighting The post Babylon.js 8 Game Engine Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Ucupaint � Turning Blender into Substance Painter

GameFromScratch.com Ucupaint – Turning Blender into Substance Painter Ucupaint is a completely free and open-source add-on for Blender that when combined with Blender’s existing painting tools adds a Substance Painter like experience. This enables you to easily texture your 3D objects directly inside Blender, with new more sophisticated layering tools and more. Features of Ucupaint include: Key Links The post Ucupaint – Turning Blender into Substance Painter appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Godot + Toon Boom = Jump!

GameFromScratch.com Godot + Toon Boom = Jump! Toon Boom, the creators of the Toon Boom Harmony (and other) 2D animation packages have just announced a new product in beta format, Toon Boom Jump! Toon Boom Jump! takes the animation tools they are known for, but integrates the open-source Godot game engine. Toon Boom already offering a gaming The post Godot + Toon Boom = Jump! appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Blockbench Easy 3D Modelling

GameFromScratch.com Blockbench Easy 3D Modelling Today we revisit Blockbench (we first reviewed this application back in 2020) a powerful, but completely free and open-source 3D modelling application for Mac, Windows, Linux and even the Web. It is one of the easiest to use 3D modelling applications in existence and in addition to modeling also is The post Blockbench Easy 3D Modelling appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.