News: Re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 Ken Wood.

The development team of 0 A.D.game, tells us:
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, is happy to announce the re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”, the twenty-third alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. 

This version is a maintenance release. Blocking bugs were fixed and security and legal issues were addressed. The gameplay remained untouched, and both versions of Alpha 23 are multiplayer-compatible; however we advise you to upgrade to benefit from the following fixes. 

The team wishes to apologize for the delay in re-releasing. We have addressed other issues whenever we couldn’t make more progresses on the game itself, so the re-release has not been a completely negative procedure.
You can read this from the official website.

News: Anisotropic Material Demo: Christmas Baubles.

The new feature maned Anisotropic Material comes on sketchfab website.
The website comes with this demo: Christmas Baubles.
This demo can be found here.
The model information is a blend file this means is created with Blender 3D software created by an original model by Nehon.

The development team tells us:

A new 3D feature: introducing Anisotropy
We’re proud to introduce yet another rendering option for all Sketchfab community members today: Anisotropy (pronounce as: an-eye-sott-row-pee). A new material option that allows you to create directional reflections. Useful for rendering hair and metal materials.

News : The new Blender 3D.

The new Blender 3D software is a good way to design and create media content.
Now is better and come with a lot of features and options.
This software can be found on the official website .

You can read all info and documentation about how to use this 3D software.
Anyway, you can also take a look at youtube for tutorials.
I can recommend this tutorial by Blender Guru :

And step by step development by the Blender Developers channels :
In my opinion is more complex that Blender 2.7 version.

YouTube - Premiere feature.

It's an older feature that YouTube has been releasing two months ago.
The YouTube comes with a new feature named: Premiere.
The goal for YouTube users is to be able to organize and distribute video content on a specific date and on a specific target.
What's interesting about it?
Once a premiere is scheduled, a shareable and public watch page is created. This page shows the video metadata, including title, description, and thumbnail. In addition, the video will eventually premiere on this watch page URL. Viewers can start interacting through Comments and Live Chat before and during the premiere.
A very good part for the target is raising money for the Premiere feature.
You can read more about this feature here.

The NOX emulator player release version 6.2.6.0

On December 3, 2018 a new release of the NOX player is available for Android users.
The Nox App Player is the latest Android emulator released recently.
An android emulator or app player is the software that allows users to install android app and game on PC or Laptop.
NoxPlayer 6.2.6.0 Release Note: 
What’s New: 
1. Optimized the keyboard control, add long-press continuous click mode; 
2. Optimized synchronization function of multi-instance, virtual location can be synchronized now; 
3. Optimized interaction and visual design of toolbar for easier operation; 
4. Optimized the start response and restart time; 
5. Optimized the Theme Center in NoxPlayer; 
6. Fixed the macro button configuration failure in the keyboard control; 
7. Fixed the minimization problem of multi-instance manager; 
8. Fixed the crash problem caused by keyboard configuration and some graphics card models.
More about this on the official webpage.

News : Cesium World Terrain update the United States Terrain up to 0.5m .

Fresh high-resolution terrain across the United States was added to Cesium World Terrain. 

New 3m terrain now covers large sections of the United States, including major cities such as San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Raleigh, and New Orleans, to name just a few.

The quarry near San Francisco shown below highlights how the new high-resolution terrain (left) brings the hills, roads, and steps into focus. Try the slider to see how the new terrain also better matches the high-resolution imagery. 

New 0.5m terrain now covers the entire West Coast of the US, from the Mexico border all the way up to the Canada border. 

This coastal shot shows the old terrain (right); the rugged nature of the coast becomes clear with new high resolution terrain (left).

Read more at official blog.

News : Blender 3D the beta version.

In this video, Pablo Vazquez presents the 5 major updates in Blender 2.8 Beta.
As you already know, the Blender 3D is free and you can support core Blender development here.

News : NVIDIA VMware Test Drive.

The NVIDIA VMware Test Drive gives you instant access to hours of accelerated, virtualized graphics—for free.
You can start with:

• FREE 90-DAY EVAL 
• PURCHASE NVIDIA VIRTUAL GPUs:  just for these countries: Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Latin, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Read more about this feature here.

Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software

The development team come with this infos about Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software:
Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision framework.
The official website can be found here.

You can see a tutorial with Blender 3D - open-source software created by CG Geek:

Online effects in a single image .

This website allows you to draw more effects in one image:

Rebelle 3 - the watercolor software .

The development team comes with this info about this software:
Rebelle is a unique digital painting solution for creating realistic art using watercolors, acrylics and any wet and dry media. Use of real-world color blending, wet diffusion and drying sets it apart from its competition.

• Real world simulation of paint diffusion ;
• Wet tools: Watercolor, Acrylic and Ink Pen ;
• Dry tools: Pencil, Pastel, Marker, Eraser ;
• Blend and Smudge tools ;
• Custom Brushes ;
• Wet, dry and blow the wet painting ;
• Tilt the canvas to get flow effects ;
• Pen pressure support ;

The digital copy comes with this price: $ 89.99.
Read more at official webpage about this software.

News : Get up to $311 in free assets.

News for Unity 3D users and development teams.
The Unity 3D team come with this new feature to have more assets into your game development:
  Spend between $50 and $250 in the Unity Asset Store during the month of June 2018, and get up to five free assets, worth $311 in value. Activate now by submitting your Asset Store login (your email) here.*
Read about this here.

The Xenko game engine .

The Xenko Beta version is available for free .
This is old news from Xenko game engine team:

Long time no see!

The Xenko promotion period has ended, and we’ve made some changes to the license plans.

As of 1 April 2018, Xenko Pro and Xenko Pro Plus are no longer available.

Xenko Personal is still free for personal use and for businesses of less than $200,000 US in annual revenue. If you don’t meet the Xenko Personal criteria, contact us for a custom plan.

If your business makes over $200,000 US in annual revenue, and you downloaded Xenko before 1 April 2018, you can continue to use Xenko until 1 April 2019. If you want to use Xenko after that, you need to contact us to create a custom plan before 1 April 2019.

New features for EVE online .

The development team come with this into named : EVE Online - Into the Abyss Feature Tour
The most part of this feature is focus on Planetary Colonies.
The EVE Online tell into Steam area of game with this intro:
  EVE Online is a community-driven spaceship MMO where players can play for free, choosing their own path from countless options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles, mining, industry and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox.
This new features can be show at official youtube and the full official article :

News: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 .

Today the Wildfire Games announces the new release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 named Ken Wood.
Is a great and free game for many operating platforms like: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
You can read more about this news here.

News: Construct 2 Release r259.

The development team come with this new release for Construct 2 game engine.
This is a stable update to incorporate fixes from r256, r257 and r258. As noted previously, we are only maintaining Construct 2 with bug fixes at this point. New features will only be added to Construct 3.

Since r255 the main improvements are:

• Better handling of video and audio autoplay. This includes updates to work around Chrome 66's changes to autoplay policy which can prevent audio playback in old content. If you find your old games are muted in Chrome, export them again with this update and they should play audio correctly once the user has interacted with the page (i.e. a click, touch or key press). 
• Support for Xbox Live Achievements. This should allow games on the ID@Xbox programme to meet the publishing requirements. In addition to that there are also a range of bug fixes, notably for a crash using savegames with Physics, and ensuring long-press on Android no longer triggers vibration.

Prices for Construct 2 licenses vary and are not very cheap (monthly or start from €159.99) .
The types of licenses used and sold for Construct 2 are:

• Personal License 
• Business License 
• License Upgrade 
• Educational Licenses

They also let you to test a free edition:
Download the free version today and give it a go! You're just about to discover a new, exciting way to teach.

News: Krita 4.0.2 released.

The Krita development team come with this news:

  Today the Krita team releases Krita 4.0.2, a bug fix release of Krita 4.0.0. We fixed more than fifty bugs since the Krita 4.0.0 release! See below for the full list of fixed isses. We’ve also got fixes submitted by two new contributors: Emmet O’Neil and Seoras Macdonald. Welcome! 

Please note that: 

•  The reference image docker has been removed. Krita 4.1.0 will have a new reference images tool. You can test the code-in-progress by downloading the nightly builds for Windows and Linux. You can also use Antoine Roux’s reference images docker python plugin. 
• Translations are broken in various ways. On Linux everything should work. On Windows, you might have to select your language as an extra override language in the Settings/Select language dialog. This might also be the case on macOS 
• The macOS binaries are now signed, but do not have G’Mic and do not have Python scripting. 

The full article can be found here.

Unity3D : The Obi 3.4

This new release come with this news and features:
Obi is the first CPU-based real time unified physics framework:

• Unified framework for character and interactive cloth, fluids, ropes...
• Advanced editor tools
• High performance multithreaded solver
• Two-way interaction with rigidbodies, supports all collider types
• From low budget, simple effects to extremely complex behavior

The main goal of this release is focuses on rendering particles and fluids.
The youtube channel can be found here.
You can see into the next video the good start of this asset into cloth simulations :

News: The new release of GIMP 2.10 .

This new release come with this news: GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.

This release include features that users have been asking the team all along:

• New Unified Transform (rotating, scaling, perspective etc. in one go), Handle Transform, and Warp Transform (think Photoshop's Liquify) tools;
• Processing with 16/32-bit per color channel precision, integer or float;
• Gradient tool now allows on-canvas editing;
• Digital painting improved with threaded painting, canvas rotation and flipping, new MyPaint Brush tool, symmetry painting;
• Performance improvements for some filters thanks to multi-threading;
• Improved support for TIFF, PNG, PSD, PDF, FITS;
• Pre-processing of raw digital photos with darktable or RawTherapee at your preferences (more processors can be plugged);
• Over 80 GEGL-based filters with on-canvas preview, including custom split before/after preview.
• Exif, XMP, IPTC, DICOM metadata viewing and editing;
• Newly added support for WebP, OpenEXR, RGBE, HGT;
• Optional linear RGB workflow;
• 15 new blending modes, including Pass-Through;
• Color management rewritten and now a core feature, all color widgets are now color managed, ICC v3 profiles supported;
• CIE LCH and CIE LAB color models now used in a few tools;

Read more about this news here.

Hero - Grease Pencil 2.0 project of Blender team.

This video is made by the Blender team and is result of 2D graphic tool named Grease Pencil.
They presents a 3 minutes short film showcasing Blender’s upcoming Grease Pencil 2.0.
This tool works like a pen in the 3D area.
At the end of this video you can see the combined effects of 2D and 3D.
Now, 2D and 3D animations benefit from advanced technology that complies with the basic animation rules.
You can see it on official youtube channel :