The Unity engine and editor C# source code has been released under a reference-only license.
It's critical to note the engine itself is not open source. That would be the day.
Source: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/26/releasing-the-unity-c-source-code/
Crytek has announced a new 5% royalty-based model for CRYENGINE. There is also a certification program, revamped documentation and editor source code availability.
Apparently, Crytek has put some resources into making the engine easier to use. This should be interesting to see.
Facebook's Instant Games is now available to all instead of just a few select partners.
What's more fascinating is they have a list of game engines that they recommend.
Link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/instant-games/engine-recommendations
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/facebook-opens-instant-games-to-all-developers/
Unity has partnered with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity.
Unity is pretty serious about XR, AR, VR and all the Rs!
Unity has released an interesting asset called 2D Game Kit which aims to reduce the complexity of developing 2D platformer games in Unity.
Normally this won't warrant a news report on gameengine.win but this asset is quite significant. The barrier to game creation is lowered further since a solid game can be developed by simply manipulating parameters in the editor and not touching a lick of C#. Having given it a spin, I can say it's quite impressive and I'm looking forward to tinkering with it some more.
Source: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/02/13/introducing-2d-game-kit-learn-unity-with-drag-and-drop/