Game media from opengameart.

Do you hear about the OpenGameArt?
If not, then it is a good area to get the media for your game or to create your own art.

VIKINGS: WAR OF CLANS from Plarium.

I'm not a fan of Vikings, but this game is awesome.
It comes with many effects, many development options, simplicity, and good game management.
I started playing while working on my computer and I was not bored with the game's tasks.
The game starts with a tutorial that guides you and then you will make your own decisions.
Tasks are multiple, starting with the development of the village with materials, human and other complementary resources.
You can create and customize your own hero.

The game can be found here.
This is one of the videos from official youtube channel:

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.

Create textures with Materialize.

The development team comes with this great tool named Materialize:
Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.
You can use this tool for:
What can this tool do?

• Diffuse -> Height 
• Diffuse -> Metallic
• Diffuse -> Smoothness
• Height -> Normal
• Height + Diffuse -> Normal 
• Normal -> Edge 
• Normal -> Occlusion 
• Normal + Height -> Occlusion 
• Normal -> Height 
• Seamlessly tile your textures. 
• Save and load in a variety of formats. 
• Automate many processes with clipboard commands in XML format.

You can find video tutorials created by Michael Voeller:

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.

The best online font creator - calligraphr.

This website named calligraphr is an online tool for creating fonts.
The development team comes with these features:

• Create your templates with much more comfort and options.
• You don't need a scanner anymore. Just take a pic of your template with your mobile phone.
• Draw different variants of each character, which are then used randomly to give your font a more authentic look.
• Create your ligatures and add them to your font.
• No need to start over again if you don't like a character.
• Just edit it with our included tools.
• Take all the time you need to work on your fonts.
• They are stored on your browser and can be edited in more than one session.

You can use many templates (from default templates to any languages).
Use these steps:

1. Create a template;
2. Fill it out with your font;
3. Use the result and upload it into fonts page;

The template can be download into PDF or archive of PNG files.
This is a default language font to create a template, see screenshot:

MAVO : Create webpages with HTML and CSS .

A start intro into MAVO can be found here.
The MAVO is a simple way to create good design and graphics for your website.
The development team tells us: What if I told you, that you can do these things (and more!), just with HTML and CSS? No programming code to write, no servers to manage.
A demo page shows us how good is this system, see here.

Brackets - another editor for development.

This is a modern, open source text editor with a great design that understands web design and is named Brackets.
Is created with JavaScript and you can contribute and create your extensions.
The team development comes with this intro:
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it without getting in the way of your creative process. You'll enjoy writing code in Brackets.
This editor can be found at the official webpage.
See this screenshot with this editor:

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.

Star Trek Online Age of Discovery by Arc Games.

This is the best free online play of an MMORPG game.
If you play the old games like Freelancer or Librelancer then this game is more advanced and with many goals.

The development team comes with this intro:
  Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go in this expanding vast universe.

What I liked is the gradual ship-to-staff development system.
The story is beautiful, but sometimes it can happen to get the story back.
However, these small impediments do not take them out of the beauty of the game.
It is a game with many video scenes and nicely arranged spaces that will surprise you.
I was amazed at how much information I was able to put into this game, making it huge and non-monotonous.
I try to find a good video for this article but I don't find it on the official youtube channel.
Anyway, I select this to have a simple into:

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.