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DirectX 12

Check out the new features in the modular, open-source, hardware-agnostic framework for developing real-time rendering technology.

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Monday, December 16th, 2024

Game engine gets support for multi-bounce lighting, OpenXR, and USD export. Free for use on projects earning under $100,000/year.

Tuesday, August 20th, 2024

Read our pick of the new features in the latest version of Unity, from improvements to rendering to new generative AI animation tools.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Check out the new features in the real-time puppet animation tool, including the option to edit replays.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

Open-source render upscaling tech for games and DCC apps now supports temporal upscaling. See what's new in the latest update.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023

GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.

Monday, June 27th, 2022

Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

Long-awaited update to the game engine is smaller than first planned, but features updates to Scaleform and the GamePlatform plugin.

Thursday, April 7th, 2022

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022