Announcing Stride 4.2

The Stride contributors are thrilled to announce the release of Stride 4.2, now fully compatible with .NET 8 and leveraging the latest enhancements in C# 12. Read more about it here.

Blog Archive

Welcome to the Stride Blog Archive page. Explore the blog's archive of .NET and C# posts, organized by year. Catch up on past content and discover new insights, tips, and inspiration.

Looking for articles by topic? Check out our Blog Tags page for a categorized list of posts.

2024

Feb 06 Announcing Stride 4.2
Mar 14 Open Worlds: An Introduction to Free and Open-Source Game Engines

2023

Jun 14 Announcing Refreshed Stride Website
Jun 15 Taking .NET Game Development in Stride
Sep 14 Unity's Licensing Changes: Discovering Stride, a Community-Driven Open Source Engine
Sep 21 A closer look: Setting private members in the editor
Oct 07 Community Meeting October 2023
Oct 23 A closer look: Diagnostic Analyzers with Roslyn
Nov 10 Investigating SPIR-V for the shader system - Part 1

2022

Feb 16 Community Meeting February 2022
Jul 16 Stride 4.1 is Now Live

2021

2020

2019

Jan 19 Developer Meeting January 2019
Feb 12 Welcome TurboPlay as Gold Sponsor
May 31 Starbreach Demo
Jul 19 Community Meeting July 2019
Sep 23 Recap September 2019
Oct 01 Contributor Meeting October 2019
Oct 04 Xenko meets vvvv
Oct 31 Recap October 2019
Nov 11 Xenko 3.1 Released
Dec 18 Community Meeting December 2019
Dec 31 Recap December 2019

2018

Mar 30 Changes to the Xenko License
Aug 02 Xenko 3.0 is Now Free and Open-Source!
Aug 22 Opensourcing Done! What's Next?
Nov 13 Feature Spotlight: Xenko 3.1 + NuGet
Dec 24 Xenko 3.1 Beta Released

2017

Jan 18 Feature Spotlight: Particle Effects
Feb 03 Some Basic Xenko Facts
Feb 09 Real-Time Local Reflections Preview
Feb 22 Xenko Exhibits and Official Release News
Mar 03 Release and Pricing Information
Mar 09 Add Xbox Live Service to Your Xenko Project
Apr 25 Xenko 2.0 Released
May 11 Game Spotlight: Children of the Galaxy
Sep 14 Xenko 2.1 Released
Sep 24 Xenko and 3dRudder
Dec 21 Xenko Pro Free until April 2018

2016

Jan 15 First Fix Update of 2016!
Mar 17 Xenko 1.6 Beta Released
Jul 01 Xenko 1.7 Beta Released
Jul 25 Help Improve Xenko By Taking Short Survey! (Closed Now)
Aug 31 Xenko 1.8 Beta Released
Oct 21 Run, Don't Walk
Oct 27 Copy-Paste Improvements Coming Soon
Nov 02 Toward a Better .NET!
Nov 11 Navigation Mesh Preview
Nov 18 Script Editor Preview
Nov 24 Xenko 1.9 Beta Released
Dec 01 Newly Added Game Templates
Dec 07 Feature Spotlight: Archetypes, Prefabs, and Nested Prefabs
Dec 13 Back to Normals
Dec 22 Happy Holidays 2016

2015

Mar 05 Scene Editor and Advanced Rendering presented at GDC
Apr 28 Xenko 1.1 Beta Released
Jul 30 History and Daily Commits on GitHub
Aug 13 Roadmap and Survey
Sep 10 Rescue Drone: Tech Demo
Sep 17 Xenko 1.3 Beta Released
Dec 01 Huge Update! Paradox Name Change!
Dec 17 Xenko 1.5 Beta Released

2014

Sep 05 Stride Blog is Online
Sep 06 Xenko 1.0 Alpha Released
Oct 17 Xenko is Going Open Source
Nov 11 Forums Opened, New Release With Image-Based Lighting