Oculus VR have just announced that they’ve acquired RakNet, one of the leading networking middleware systems in the games industry. Not only have Oculus snapped up one of the most important middleware companies in gaming, but they’ve now also open sourced the software the company creates under a modified BSD license on the Oculus GitHub.
RakNet offers a game networking engine that offers support for cross-platform gaming, multiple network types and more and it’s already been licensed by thousands of indie devs, as well as bigger companies like Unity, Havok, Mojan, Maxis, Sony Online and more.
“RakNet is a cross-platform C++ and C# game networking engine. It is designed to be a high performance, easy to integrate, and complete solution for games and other applications.” – reads the official website
Oculus have been working with RakNet for a while now, but the recent acquisition will no doubt benefit the wider Oculus development community by giving them access to the software, allowing more devs to get their games better connected.
Thank you Oculus for providing us with this information.
Images courtesy of Oculus.
AMD has released a significant update for gamers playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, introducing…
The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is making waves in the gaming world, beating some of…
PlayStation’s newest release, Astro Bot, has become a massive hit in Japan, where it has…
A major announcement may be on the horizon for Xbox gamers. According to Jez Corden…
Larian Studios has unleashed a new wave of creativity for Baldur's Gate 3 players with…
Go beyond performance with the latest 14th Generation Intel Core processors, based on the Raptor-Lake…