Tagged With: Game Developers Conference

Watch: ‘Empire of the Ants’ Trailer with Cutting-Edge Photoreal Visuals Using UE5

Ahead of its GDC showcase next week, Microids and Tower Five have dropped a gameplay trailer for their upcoming photorealistic real-time strategy game that immerses players in a magnificently microscopic forest ecosystem as an ant sworn to protect the colony at all costs.

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Game Conferences Events

Game Developers Conference 2024

Begins: March 18, 2024

GDC comes to San Francisco on March 18-22; the game industry's premier professional event champions game developers and the advancement of their craft.

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It’s Unreal Headline News

Epic Games Releases ‘Electric Dreams’ Unreal Engine Sample Project

The UE demo, unveiled at this year’s ‘State of Unreal’ at GDC, showcases experimental Procedural Content Generation – tech allows users to build scalable, virtual worlds fast with an iterative design pipeline.

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The Newest Fab Headline News

KitBash3D Teams with Epic Games on Digital Asset Library

10,000+ digital assets are coming to Fortnite creators via Fab, Epic’s new creator marketplace, now available in its Alpha Version.

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Business Headline News

OptiTrack Teams with StretchSense for Motion Capture Solution

Partnership will allow customers a simplified technology set through a single channel; integrations of mo-cap products create smoother workflows for game and film studios.

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Epic Games Headline News

Epic Games Launches MegaGrants, New Unreal Engine Technology & Online Services at GDC 2019

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.

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Allegorithmic Headline News

GDC 2019: Project Substance Alchemist Enters Open Beta

3D tool from Allegorithmic enables the rapid creation of PBR Material Libraries for game, film, architecture and industrial design.

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OptiTrack Headline News

OptiTrack to Show Precision Tracking with Jenga-inspired Demo at GDC 2019

Featuring large-scale Jenga sets, the real-time location-based VR demo will track 130 objects simultaneously.

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Game Developers Conference Headline News

Epic Games Annual ‘State of Unreal’ Set for GDC 2019

Livestreamed opening talk with CEO Tim Sweeney and CTO Kim Libreri, plus tech briefings and two exhibition floor booths for demos and networking part of company’s extensive show plans.

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Technology Headline News

NVIDIA Quadro GV100 GPU Adds Ray Tracing Abilities

RTX technology makes computationally intensive ray tracing possible in real time when running professional design and content creation applications.

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Technology Headline News

Substance Painter UI Gets Refreshed with Help from Users

Shelf loading now up to six times faster, improved painting options for mouse and tablet.

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Motion-Capture Headline News

Vicon Introduces Shōgun 1.2 at GDC 2018 with a Virtual Escape Room

Daily presentations with new Unreal Engine 4 content project and a multi-person virtual escape room take center stage at Vicon’s GDC booth.

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Technology Headline News

Substance Designer Adds UDIM Support for Feature Film Artists

Allegorithmic's 3D material authoring tool adds nine new nodes and a big graph speed boost.

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Games Events

Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018

Begins: March 19, 2018

GDC, running March 19-23, 2018, is the world's largest professional game industry event, bringing together game designers, programmers, artists, producers, and business professionals for 5 days of unparalleled education, inspiration and networking.

In Awards, CG, Education and Training, Event, Festival, Games, Interactive, Jobs & Recruiting, Technology, AR/VR/XR | Event Types: Competitive Festivals, Conferences, Exhibits, Interactive, New Media, Seminars / Workshops, Trade Shows

Pluralsight Headline News

Pluralsight Partners with SideFX for All-Day Houdini Training Event

New Houdini 16 coursework to cover everything from character creation to environments; free event to feature speakers from Pluralsight, SideFX, TriHelix and Feline Arts.

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Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Expands VR Support, Streamlines 3D Character Creation for Game Developers

Autodesk launches Stingray Game Engine v1.2 and Maya LT 2016 Extension 3 with feature improvements at GDC 2016.

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Allegorithmic Headline News

Allegorithmic Ships Substance Painter 2.0

AAA texturing tool powered by NVIDIA’s Iray renderer streamlines game asset pipeline; photorealistic rendering and curated asset store now available.

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call for entries Headline News

Autodesk 2016 Games Reel Call for Submissions Now Open

Deadline for submissions to the Autodesk Games Reel set to debut next year at GDC 2016 is December 14.

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Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Adds More Tools to Game Development Suite at GDC 2015

Rounding out its collection of game development tools, Autod3esk previews Stingray Game Engine, Announces Maya LT 2016.

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Unity Technologies Headline News

Unity Technologies Debuts Unity 5 at GDC

Unity Technologies reveals the latest version of the award-winning Unity multiplatform engine and development tools, Unity 5, which includes new features such as Enlighten real-time lighting system and physically-based shaders, at the Game Developers Conference.

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OptiTrack Headline News

OptiTrack Adds New MoCap Cameras to Its Prime Series

OptiTrack announces the addition of two new motion capture cameras to the Prime Series which will be officially debuted at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.