April 2026 GameDev Assets Giveaways #2
Epic Games is running its bi‑monthly Fab marketplace giveaway, offering three Unreal Engine assets—Modern Bridges, Deep Water Station, and a Bodycam VHS Effect—from April 21 to May 5, with permanent ownership after “purchase.” The giveaway highlights the growing trend of free, high‑quality assets that indie developers can integrate into any engine using export tools. Simultaneously, Humble Bundle launched three new game‑dev bundles covering Godot courses, a GameJam pack, and a Godot book collection, expanding affordable learning resources. An upcoming DragonRuby engine giveaway marks the engine’s 7th anniversary, underscoring the community’s appetite for free development tools.
Phaser 4 Released
Phaser, the open‑source JavaScript/TypeScript 2D game engine, launched Phaser 4 on April 14, 2026. The update features a ground‑up rewrite of the WebGL renderer, shifting from a pipeline to a node‑based architecture. New GPU‑accelerated layers let developers draw millions of sprites or massive...
Godot 4.7 Dev3 and Dev4 Released
Godot released its 4.7 Dev3 and Dev4 snapshots on April 13, 2026, adding a suite of UI, 3D editing, and platform enhancements. Dev3 introduces transform offset for Control nodes, a PopupMenu search bar, vertex snapping, class‑name scene view, a MeshLibrary...
April 2026 GameDev Assets Giveaways
Epic Games is running its bi‑monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace from April 7 to April 24, offering three free Unreal Engine assets that can be kept permanently. The giveaway also includes a versatile asset usable in Unity, Godot, Blender and...
Unigine 2.21 Released – New Pricing
Unigine has launched version 2.21, introducing a node‑based animation system, visual logic editor, and AI‑friendly workflow. The update adds an experimental MCPBridge plugin for text‑driven scene edits, and expands upscaler support with customizable FSR 3 and DLSS options. Performance gains include...
After 7 Years of Development – Fyrox 1.0 Is Here
The Rust‑based open‑source game engine Fyrox has reached a major milestone with the launch of version 1.0 after seven years of development. The release bundles incremental enhancements rather than brand‑new features, including a new export‑CLI for automated builds, a task‑based...
New Godot GameDev.tv & Ovani Sound Bundles
GameFromScratch announced a new GameDev.tv bundle that teaches Godot 4.x development, covering 2D, 3D, RPG creation, C#, shaders and Blender integration. At the same time, Humble released several developer bundles, notably Ovani Sound’s Decibel Domination with 12 brand‑new music packs and...
Pyrite64 The Unity-Like Nintendo 64 Game Engine
Pyrite64 is a Unity‑style game engine that enables developers to build Nintendo 64 titles using C++ and a visual‑scripting editor. The engine automates the Windows toolchain, supports GLTF model import with Fast64 material handling, and offers HDR, bloom, and 256 × 256 texture...
Unity 6.4 and Unity Studio Released
Unity announced the full release of Unity 6.4 alongside the browser‑based Unity Studio. Unity 6.4 is a “Supported” release offering LTS‑level bug fixes and integrates the Entity Component System directly into the editor, while Project Auditor is now built‑in. Multiplayer tools gain deeper...
NVIDIA Release RTX Powered Godot Fork
At GDC 2026 NVIDIA unveiled a custom fork of the open‑source Godot engine that adds native RTX support and real‑time path tracing. The fork, released under the MIT license on GitHub, modifies the rendering pipeline and material system to enable...
New Synty Sci-Fi Bundle + Survival Kit Redux
Humble Bundle launched two new game‑development asset collections on March 12, 2026: the Synty Sci‑Fi Bundle and the Ultimate Survival Kit Redux. The Synty offering is a $30 tier that includes polygon city, space, particle packs, base locomotion animation, a...
Major Schism on Unity Asset Store
Unity announced that all assets from publishers located in the Greater China region will be removed from the global Unity Asset Store on March 31, 2026. The purge affects more than 3,000 items, leaving existing licenses intact but ending future updates and...
Ultimate Game Development & 3D Artist Tool Humble Bundles
Humble has launched two new bundles aimed at game developers and 3D artists: the Ultimate Game Development Courses Bundle and the JRO 3D Artist Tools Bundle. The courses tier ranges from a $2 entry level covering Blender basics to a...
The Unity HDRP Is Dead
Unity announced a strategic shift in its graphics architecture, deprecating the Built‑in Render Pipeline in Unity 6.5 and effectively ending active development of the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). The company will concentrate on the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), promising faster...
Epic Games Release Final Free Quixel Mixer
Epic Games announced the final offline release of Quixel Mixer, version 2023.1.0, marking the end of updates for the once‑free texturing app. The package includes over 800 free asset packs totaling more than 30 GB and will continue to work offline. Existing...