Godot Engine
Free, open-source engine for 2D and 3D games, with a lightweight editor and GDScript plus C# support.
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- TodayOct 3, 2026NewsletterToday · Oct 3, 2026From the weekly newsletter
ElevenLabs ships Eleven v4, AMD agrees to buy World Labs, PixiEditor's team announces Trexel
ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo, AMD agrees to acquire Marble maker World Labs, Pixi Labs announces the 2D asset suite Trexel, and SpAItial brings Echo world generation into Claude.
Read the full newsletter - 6 days agoSep 26, 2026Newsletter6 days ago · Sep 26, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Tripo P2.0 brings clean quads, Meta announces prompt-to-game tools, Action Game Maker 2.0 enters beta
Tripo's quad-mesh model launches for everyone, Meta announces Horizon Create and Horizon Studio for building mobile games from a description, and the RPG Maker publisher puts its Godot-based action game tool into beta.
Read the full newsletter - Sep 12, 2026NewsletterSep 12, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Suno v6 adds a free model, Roblox announces standalone apps, Hyper3D generates whole rooms
Suno's v6 family brings section editing and a free v6-mini, Roblox says creators will be able to ship standalone apps, Hyper3D WorldGen turns one image into an editable scene, and Summer Engine's assistant now builds scenes.
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Phaser Game Agent exports your code, Nomad Sculpt links to Blender, Tencent backs W4 Games
Games made in Phaser Game Agent can now leave the browser as TypeScript source, Nomad Sculpt live-links a tablet to desktop Blender, and Tencent leads an $18M round in the company behind commercial Godot support.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 25, 2026AnnouncementAug 25, 2026
W4 Games raises $18M
Tencent leads a Series B for the company behind commercial Godot support.
Read full postGodot EngineFundingEngine - Aug 15, 2026NewsletterAug 15, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Meshy 7 sharpens image-to-3D, Convai brings its MCP to Unity, Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI
Meshy 7 follows your reference image more closely, Convai lets coding agents build talking NPCs in Unity, Suno's browser DAW adds MIDI and automation alongside new download limits, and SpriteLoop is a free cut-out 2D animator.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 8, 2026NewsletterAug 8, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Armature makes rigging free, Cascadeur adds layers and MCP, BlendKit comes to Godot
A free AI rigging app takes on the most painful step of getting a character moving, Cascadeur 2026.2 adds animation layers and an MCP server, and BlendKit's free asset library arrives in Godot.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 1, 2026NewsletterAug 1, 2026From the weekly newsletter
MCP drops sessions, GodotHub gives Godot a launcher, Houdini 22 adds Gaussian splats
The protocol that connects AI agents to game engines got a major rewrite, a free community launcher manages Godot versions, and Houdini 22 brings Gaussian splats and terrain tools. Plus cheaper webcam face capture with AccuFace 2 and a texturing suite that is free for small teams.
Read the full newsletter - Jul 11, 2026NewsletterJul 11, 2026From the weekly newsletter
The week your coding agent learned to make games
A game-building service, an art workspace, and a character platform all became operable from the coding agent you already use.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 27, 2026NewsletterJun 27, 2026From the weekly newsletter
EA backs Godot, iClone goes free, and a busy DCC week
Four pipeline tools shipped real updates in four days, EA put money behind Godot, and Reallusion made a serious animation tool free.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 23, 2026
- Jun 19, 2026NewsletterJun 19, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Engine super-week: Unreal 5.8, Unity 6.5, and Godot 4.7
The big three engines shipped within days. Unreal 5.8 goes out as the last major UE5 release and starts the UE6 countdown, while Unity 6.5 and Godot 4.7 hit milestones of their own.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 18, 2026
- Jun 5, 2026NewsletterJun 5, 2026From the weekly newsletter
The funding wave and a swarm of AI-3D agents
Tripo and Suno raised enormous rounds within days of each other, and the AI-3D agents kept coming.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 2, 2026
- May 29, 2026NewsletterMay 29, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Godot's store and a big week for AI audio
Two AI audio releases worth your attention, a real jump for an AI mesh generator, and Godot finally getting a proper storefront.
Read the full newsletter - May 22, 2026AnnouncementMay 22, 2026
The Godot Asset Store
A from-scratch marketplace on Godot's shared account system.
Read full postArt Pipeline - Jan 26, 2026
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