Crytek, the makers of such fine games as the Crysis series, the original Far Cry and Ryse: Son of Rome, has launched the latest version of its 3D game engine and made it free for developers to use ...

I don't know how well this will work out in the long run, but a free game engine just launched called Lumberyard. It's a fully featured engine with native C++ support, a built-in character creator ...