GameDev News - Week Ending April 15, 2016
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Cocos2d-x
- VR
- Windows
- Other
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
- VR
- US legislator presses Oculus on user privacy
- Oculus shipping dates pushed back again as pre-order woes continue (mine arrived Monday!)
- GREE launches $12m VR investment fund
- Candy Crush creator: Free-to-play is not a sustainable business model on VR
- Oculus Rift exclusives come to HTC Vive thanks to unofficial patch
- LOOOK at the new studio from the lead designer of Halo and Prototype
- DICE considering move into VR development
- Other
- Codemasters hires Evolution team following studio closure
- Stealing the Limelight: How to get noticed on mobile
- 'UK games development is as strong as ever, despite closures'
- Number of Steam releases doubled in 2015
- Zynga exec Chris Plummer takes over Boss Alien
- Leslie Benzies suing Rockstar over $150m
- Console fans are marching toward mobile devices, but they don't spend much (and more)
- Five-person dev Dodge Roll sells 200k copies of Enter the Gungeon in a week
- Feat Unlocked: One Million Copies of Shovel Knight Sold (great stats in here)
- Halo: Spartan Strike co-developer restructures to form VR/AR studio Force Field
- Stardew Valley passes 1m sales in under two months
- Apple reportedly considering paid-for App Store search results
- Ex-Zynga devs' studio JuiceBox closes because 'our games weren't good enough' (and more)
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting