I'm going to clue you in on two of the most popular game engines that people use in the industry, Unity and Unreal Engine.

GameMaker (formerly Game Maker Studio), a 2D engine that was acquired by browser firm Opera in 2021, has simplified its licensing structure, declaring it " Free for Non-Commercial Use." ...

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is adding 3D to its open-source Cocos Creator 3.0.

Unity has been the engine of choice for thousands of developers and it's still really good if you want to have a go at making a simple 2D game for a host of different platforms.

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time.

It’s not often that a browser company acquires a game development platform. But that’s exactly what Opera has done with YoYo Games, a British team best known for GameMaker Studio 2.