Unity 5.6 is now available as the final installment of the Unity 5 series. It comes with a Progressive Lightmapper preview, new Light Modes, Vulkan support and many more features. 

Unity will be switching to yearly naming for future versions. If this is added to the splash screen, it will be a great way to force developers to keep updating their builds to ensure their games don't appear dated.

Source: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/03/31/5-6-is-now-available-and-completes-the-unity-5-cycle/

CRYENGINE's new Pay What You Want licensing model is now accepting Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency.

Since this engine is basically free and royalty-free, donations go a long way towards its development. So don't be shy, open your hearts and wallets!

Source: https://www.cryengine.com/news/pay-what-you-want-with-bitcoin

The Game Creators has released a Sound Library for AppGameKit, the first of its kind for the product. It features a total of 250 unique sound effects that are royalty-free. 

It is unclear what the actual license for this sound library is and without a way to preview them, this purchase can be considered a gamble. It can be found here.

Source: https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/appgamekit-new-sounds-library-dlc-now-available

If you were hoping to buy today's 24 Hour deal, you might be out of luck at the moment.

The Unity Asset Store has been down for more than four hours. According to a tweet, they are recovering from server issues. 

It is a little worrisome that this unscheduled maintenance is going on for a few hours now. Could the damage be extensive? Was it a malicious attack and is our information compromised? Only time will tell.

Update: The Store is back online but there's been no communication of why it went down. 

Built by educators, PixelPAD is a web-based 2D game engine designed for classroom and personal projects. It uses Python but doesn't support the entire language yet. It is free to sign up and use but there's also a subscription available to gain access to educational material as well as a la carte options for individual courses. 

The engine currently exports to the Web but based on its disabled options, mobile and current-gen console export could be around the corner. I'm curious to see how this engine gets developed!

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5z7yve/new_webbased_2d_game_engine_pixelpad_beta/