Tools News

Stride cli/1.0.4 tightens version management for engine installs, with a new --nightly flag that makes nightly builds opt-in across sdk available, install, update, and upgrade. It also fixes beta package …

Stride launcher/6.0.5 is a small maintenance release for the engine’s project launcher, with the biggest practical change being a cleaner project list. Removing a project now clears it from every …

Defold 1.14.0 adds Microsoft Xbox support for approved developers, putting the engine across all three major console families. Defold also tightened mobile and editor workflows, with iPhone Duo-safe-area updates, cubemap …

arXiv cs.GR details PriMoRetarget, a motion-retargeting framework that uses explicit priority levels instead of fragile weight tuning. For game teams building humanoid animation pipelines, the pitch is better preservation of …

Defold 1.14.0 adds cubemap render targets, a redesigned Material Editor, and Metal as the default backend on macOS. Defold says the release also prepares projects for iPhone Duo and opens …

ACM Graphics details ShapeLib, a 3D shape abstraction library designed with Large Language Models. The work lands in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 46, Issue 2, and points to a …

GameFromScratch reports that Capcom has open sourced RE:Dox, a C#-powered data engine used inside RE Engine. That matters because RE Engine underpins many of Capcom's modern AAA releases, from Resident …

Babylon.js 9.30.0 lands with a small but useful set of fixes for WebGPU, WebGL1, particles, and the flow graph editor, plus one new canvas color-management hook. The biggest developer-facing change …

arXiv cs.GR details a conversational 3D authoring technique that lets users show motion “just like this” instead of describing it in words alone. The system blends speech, pointing, and hand …

Stride (GitHub Releases) has shipped launcher 6.0.4, a small patch focused on Windows uninstall behavior. The launcher now registers a quiet uninstall command, so tools like winget can remove it …

GamesIndustry.biz says Capcom is pushing its RE Engine toward an AI-assisted workflow, with a multi-phase REX project aimed at faster QA, debugging, and data handling. The company says the goal …

The Cherno asks whether AI can build a game engine, framing the experiment around Hazel and a prompt doc that guides the work. For engine programmers, the practical question is …

Freya Holmér says she’ll be debating former Reddit moderator and self-described AI tech bro Bryan C. Wade, with drt0videos hosting. For game developers, the interest is less the personalities than …

arXiv cs.GR details a curvature-driven subdivision scheme that inserts points from local curvature profiles instead of affine blends. The method reproduces geodesics and circles exactly, and its planar linearisation collapses …

arXiv cs.GR details LiteReality-Agent, an agentic pipeline that turns RGB-D scans into simulation-ready indoor digital twins. The system treats reconstruction like coding, with a tool-using agent iteratively editing Python to …

GameFromScratch reports that former Guerrilla Games and Crytek AI developer Jose Escribano has released htn_planner, an HTN-based planning framework inspired by AAA work on Horizon. It pairs hierarchical task network …

GameFromScratch reports that Pixi Labs has unveiled Trexel, a new 2D app built on PixiEditor and aimed squarely at game developers. The pitch centers on seamless texturing for repeating assets, …

Godot Engine says 4.8 dev 7 is the last feature snapshot before freeze, shifting the branch to bugfixes and regressions ahead of beta. For teams tracking engine upgrades, this one …

GameFromScratch reports that Gozen, a free and open-source video editor built with Godot, has entered beta on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Developers can build it from source for free, or …

Community details Covil Sprite Pipeline, a local Windows tool aimed at cleaning up sprite-sheet animation before it reaches the engine. It normalizes scale, pivots, and timing, previews frames, and exports …