GameDev News - November 8, 2019
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
- Unity 2019.3.0b10
- Unity 2020.1.0a12
- Enter Play Mode faster in Unity 2019.3
- How to use URL handlers and OpenURL safely in your Unity app
- Havok Physics in Unity
- The new Asset Import Pipeline: Solid foundation for speeding up asset imports
- Simplify your game testing with our new machine learning product, GameTune
- Unity Addressables Pooling: Jump In!
- Unreal
- CryEngine
- Godot
- VR/AR
- Microsoft
- Coming to DirectX 12— Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked
- DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Tier 1.1
- Coming to DirectX 12— Mesh Shaders and Amplification Shaders: Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline
- EA and Visual Studio’s Linux Support
- Azure PlayFab and Xbox better together
- Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19018
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 19013 available now!
- All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite
- Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2, now available
- Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview
- Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools
- Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts
- Visual Studio Code C++ extension: Nov 2019 update
- Introducing C++ Build Insights
- Other
- When We Made… Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Designing the gameplay and aesthetic of Diablo IV
- How Blasphemous' level design iterates on classic Metroidvanias
- Ray Tracing Gems (full PDF)
- Ray Tracing a Tiny Procedural Planet
- OutStar Voxel MineCraft Game Source Available
- SideFX Launches Houdini 18
- Khronos Group Releases New Vulkan Guide
- WaveEngine 3.0 Preview 2
- Unity
- Industry News
- VR/AR
- Other
- Overwatch 2 announced, will be cross-compatible with original game
- UK Charts: Luigi's Mansion 3 is the biggest Switch launch of 2019 (so far)
- Unity acquires cloud application streaming service creator Obvioos
- Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud for game development program
- Starbreeze losses were $30.8 million for the first nine months of 2019
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dominates the EMEAA charts
- The Nintendo Switch has sold over 10 million units in Japan
- US gamers have spent $27.9bn in 2019 so far
- Sony will close down SingStar servers in January 2020
- Less than half of US gamers purchased in-game content last month
- Square Enix profits up 32% in first half of fiscal year
- Activision Blizzard sees slumping sales, sliding engagement
- Live games propel Take-Two toward quiet holiday as GTA V reaches 115m units sold
- PlayStation to open development studio in Malaysia
- Call of Duty holds off Luigi's Mansion 3 in the EMEAA chart
- Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting