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LoopTools tools have become native in the Blender 5.3 beta
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LoopTools tools have become native in the Blender 5.3 beta

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The Blender 5.3 release notes list the Relax, Curve and Gstretch operators from the LoopTools add-on as built-in — under new names. The beta runs until November 4, 2026.
Epic tells developers not to write code by hand
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Epic tells developers not to write code by hand

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An unannounced Marvel and Star Wars shooter has been delayed and the team moved to "AI-first" development. Sweeney confirmed a company-wide pivot at Epic to accelerate with AI.
UNOMi's AI lip sync reaches Blender and understands Russian
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UNOMi's AI lip sync reaches Blender and understands Russian

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Blender gets a commercial speech animation plug-in: the animator supplies audio and the line's text, and the plug-in sets keys on mouth poses. Russian is among the eight supported languages.
Warner Bros.' New Owner Prepares Job Cuts
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Warner Bros.' New Owner Prepares Job Cuts

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Skydance closed its Warner Bros. Discovery deal and immediately warned staff of "difficult decisions." Studio budgets are promised to stay intact, but $6B in annual savings has to come from somewhere.
US Suspends Microsoft's Visa Applications — the Restriction Covers Xbox Too
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US Suspends Microsoft's Visa Applications — the Restriction Covers Xbox Too

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The suspension applies to all divisions, including Xbox. Status extensions for current employees are affected too; Microsoft calls the accusations mistaken.
Bit Reactor brings team back after furlough — but not everyone
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Bit Reactor brings team back after furlough — but not everyone

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The studio placed over 80% of staff on unpaid furlough before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company. Now more than half the team is returning; the fate of the rest is undisclosed.
Unity unveils Unity Spark: games from text prompts inside Google's service
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Unity unveils Unity Spark: games from text prompts inside Google's service

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Unity Spark builds games from text prompts, runs only inside Google's Playground platform and is wired into the Unity Asset Store. No coding required; the tool is still waitlisted.
Clean hair cutouts in Photoshop now cost money
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Clean hair cutouts in Photoshop now cost money

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Enhance Edge removes the color fringe left by Remove Background and spends 20 generative credits per use. Also in 27.11: GPT Image 2 and performance work on Windows.
Zaslav leaves Warner Bros. — what's left of animation
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Zaslav leaves Warner Bros. — what's left of animation

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The Paramount Skydance deal is closing: the new owner inherits Warner's animation after four and a half years of cuts — and a relaunched feature animation studio.
Hellblade developer lays off staff after failed studio sale
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Hellblade developer lays off staff after failed studio sale

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Microsoft found no buyer for Ninja Theory, and the studio has reportedly begun cutting staff — among them a specialist with 12 years of experience. Xbox previously announced a Senua game.
Capcom is rebuilding RE Engine to work with AI
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Capcom is rebuilding RE Engine to work with AI

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The engine behind Resident Evil and Monster Hunter is moving to a common programming language so AI can write code and hunt bugs. Capcom isn't planning to generate assets.
Open-source SketchUp alternative opens up to third-party plugins
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Open-source SketchUp alternative opens up to third-party plugins

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IngeTrazo runs natively on Linux, Windows and macOS and guarantees watertight solids. Users can now write extensions for it — among them a viewport renderer via ComfyUI.
Vatican offers artists an alliance to defend the human in the age of AI
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Vatican offers artists an alliance to defend the human in the age of AI

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Leo XIV shifted the debate over AI images from picture quality to provenance: the machine runs statistics over millions of other people's works. The Church offers artists an alliance.
Runway unveils Continuum — a project where a video model draws the interface
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Runway unveils Continuum — a project where a video model draws the interface

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Runway closed its AI Summit in San Francisco with a showing of Continuum, a Runway Labs project the company calls a real-time video operating system.
NeXus 2026.1 blurs the line between Blender and Cinema 4D
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NeXus 2026.1 blurs the line between Blender and Cinema 4D

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A scene solves identically in both packages, and the new nxMPM solver mixes liquid, snow, sand and metal in a single simulation. The beta is free to Insydium license holders.
Houdini 22 keynote on YouTube: AI assistant for APEX Script still in preview
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Houdini 22 keynote on YouTube: AI assistant for APEX Script still in preview

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The Equinox 2026 keynote recording is on YouTube: SideFX walked through Houdini 22 from the interface to Gaussian splats and machine learning, with the APEX Script AI assistant still in preview.
Reigns creators freeze studio and lay off staff
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Reigns creators freeze studio and lay off staff

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Nerial halts development after 13 years and 11 games — the decision was made together with Devolver. The founders ask other studios to hire their staff.
Xbox is not for sale, but it could become a subsidiary
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Xbox is not for sale, but it could become a subsidiary

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Asha Sharma said Xbox is not for sale but did not rule out a change of operating model — like LinkedIn's. The statement came amid 1,600 layoffs and closed studios.
Apple Studios VFX team signs first contract with AI protections
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Apple Studios VFX team signs first contract with AI protections

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After more than two years of campaigning, a first collective agreement: minimum rates, studio-paid health and pension, rest periods between shifts, and AI limits from the IATSE Basic Agreement.
Runway unveils autonomous engine for ad campaigns
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Runway unveils autonomous engine for ad campaigns

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The video generator becomes an ad pipeline: the system builds clips itself, publishes them to Meta, Google and TikTok, and shifts budget. Runway's own output grew from 77 to 900 ads per week.