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Real reasons (not) to build custom game engines in 2024

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Drawing from Highfleet's experience, this article explains why building your own engine may be a bad idea and when it might be worth considering.

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Unity wants fewer developers to park on older versions of the engine

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Unity's move to "generational" updates is meant to help devs access engine improvements more often.

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Esenthel Titan Engine

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GameFromScratch.com Esenthel Titan Engine Today we are checking out the Esenthel Titan Engine, that bills itself as “The Most Powerful Game Engine in the World” This to put it mildly, is a very bold claim. The Titan Engine is a free download with a 5% commercial royalty if you sell your game.

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343 Industries rebrands to Halo Studios, picks Unreal Engine to help revitalize the franchise

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Microsoft's shooter franchise is leaping to Unreal Engine with multiple projects in tow and its current helmers under a new banner.

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Did you know Tears of the Kingdom has 'a physics engine for sound'?

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Lead sound engineer Junya Osada says making a procedural sound system allowed Nintendo's sound team to work more closely with other departments.

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WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced

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GameFromScratch.com WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced Out of nowhere and with no announcements, Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of the popular MMO War Thunder have just released the source code to the underlying game engine Dagor Engine.

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Godot Engine launches funding initiative to fuel long-term growth

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The engine maker hopes its new development fund will give it more financial freedom and ensure it keeps up with the growing scale of its project.