GameDev News - Week Ending February 2, 2018 Dev/Tools/Tech Unity Unity 2017.1.3p1 / 2017.2.1p3 / 2017.3.0p4 Unity 2018.1.0b5 Scriptable Render Pipeline Overview Unreal Unreal Engine 4.19 Preview VR/AR January Monthly Tech Release Notes Avatar Locomotion Sample Microsoft Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17083 now available Other Godot 3.0 released How The Room devs succeeded on mobile, 'the only option left to us' Video: The tools used to design Rayman Legends Industry News Microsoft-related Microsoft acquires PlayFab, accelerating game development innovation in the cloud Microsoft will add direct game sales to Mixer in 2018 Microsoft gaming business up 8% VR/AR HTC: Vive Pro is Targeted at Prosumers and Will Be “more expensive” Than Consumer Vive Patents point to new PlayStation VR controllers Pokemon Go developer Niantic scoops up AR API maker Escher Reality Other Nintendo's revenue rockets as Switch nears 15m sold EA makes $186m Q3 loss despite rising digital revenue Games industry generated $108.4bn in revenues in 2017 Gigantic to shut down at the end of July Kaz Hirai resigns as CEO of Sony Sony's software strength offsets flat hardware sales Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting A reproduction of the Street Fighter II design doc ClassicBasic - Clone of Microsoft 8K BASIC in C# Rare unreleased SEGA arcade game “Ribbit!” playable at the Galloping Ghost The magic of Loom Retro Game Internals: Punch-Out Behavior Script