By Mercedes Milligan | March 27, 2019 World Panorama is a diverse non-competitive program that will present 28 films from 24 countries at this year’s edition of World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb. It’s a collection of original, innovative and daring titles that will offer a broad insight into the recent global production of specifically narrated[…..] […]
First in a series of three installments of the highly anticipated Modo 13 series pushes further into design workflows, delivering native support for GPU-rendering with AMD Radeon ProRender. By Jennifer Wolfe | Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 4:04pm LONDON — Leading CG software developer Foundry has launched Modo 13.0, the first in a series of three installments of the highly anticipated[…..] […]
Announcements include $100,000,000 Epic MegaGrants, features in Unreal Engine 4.22 and beyond, SDK availability for free Epic Online Services, Epic Games store news and more. By Jennifer Wolfe | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:50pm SAN FRANCISCO — Today’s “State of Unreal” GDC opening session from Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and CTO Kim Libreri revealed[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 22, 2019 During a press preview at its Hollywood headquarters recently, Netflix announced that it is planning an Oscar-qualifying theatrical release for its first original animated feature film, Klaus. Attendees got to check out early footage from the film, which is directed by Despicable Me creator Sergio Pablos and produced by his Madrid-based The Spa[…..] […]
At the GDC conference, representatives of the Hong Kong Game Industry Association(HKGIA) and 26 local game companies from Hong Kong participated in the promotion of Hong Kong games to present original Hong Kong games to the world. CGGE had the opportunity to interview Mr. Yang Shouneng, the leader of HKGIA, to talk about Hong Kong[…..] […]
The Avatar SDK is a smartphone-based advanced 3D scanning technology developed by the US company itSeez3D. It is able to convert a user’s single selfie into a realistic 3D image. At the GDC conference, CGGE had an opportunity to interview the CEO of itSeez3D, Victor Erukhimov. CGGE: Can you simply introduce your product? What are[…..] […]
Unity Technologies is a game engine company dedicated to researching and developing technology and providing technical support to solve interesting and complex problems for customers. At the GDC conference in 2019, CGGE had an opportunity to interview the head of Unity Technologies. CGGE: Tell us about the enterprise services. Unity Technologies: Our No.1 mission is[…..] […]
Tonight, Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 21st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards, as well as the Excellence in Narrative Award. Lucas Pope is the creator of 2013’s acclaimed Papers, Please, which took home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize during the 16th Annual IGF[…..] […]
Sony Santa Monica & Sony Interactive’s God of War was honored with the Game of the Year Award at tonight’s 19th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA). Additional winners of the ceremony include Florence, developed by Mountains, which received the Best Debut and Best Mobile Game awards and Beat Saber, developed by Beat Games, which was honored with the Best VR/AR[…..] […]
WeChat, one of the world’s largest social networks, with more than 1,082 million monthly active users is now opening up its newest and powerful Mini Games platform, enabling game developers around the world to create hit games on WeChat’s unique ecosystem. Here are the proof points: The Mini Games platform has grown to more than 400[…..] […]
