The Linux Foundation, Amazon, and more than 20 other gaming companies hope to make open-source game playing more of a win-win technology for both developers and players.

The Open 3D Foundation today launched the latest version of its Open 3D Editor, which competes with the likes of Unity and Epic's Unreal Engine.

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), th… ...

Amazon is open-sourcing its Lumberyard game engine, making the technology more accessible to everyone.

However, that might change soon as Amazon is rebranding it and opening it up. Now called the Open 3D Engine, it's become an open-source project and part of the recently formed Open 3D Foundation.