GameDev News - Week Ending January 8, 2016
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
- Unreal
- Cocos2d-x
- Windows
- Other
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
- VR
- Lucky's Tale to be Bundled with Every Oculus Rift
- Oculus Touch delayed until late 2016
- Oculus Pre-Orders Now Open!
- Latest HTC Vive Pre dev kit includes front-facing camera
- Developer reactions to the $600 Rift price tag
- Three out of four VR users will choose mobile
- The Oculus Rift was supposed to be cheaper - so what happened?
- Over 100 titles being made for PlayStation VR
- Other
- Activision buys MLG to create "ESPN of eSports"
- Garry's Mod passes 10m sales barrier
- Scalebound delayed until 2017
- Steam hosted $3.5 billion in paid game sales last year
- Ustwo's Dan Gray promoted to head of studio
- Brad Fuller passes away
- Development cycle shift rumored for Assassin's Creed
- PS4 sales nearing 36 million
- Square Enix shuts down Shinra cloud-gaming service
- Cracking games is getting harder
- Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign raises $3.3m
- Monument Valley hits 21m downloads
- Japanese console market sunk to 26 year low in 2015
- Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw leaves Valve after 18 years
- Kabam sells off Kingdoms of Camelot and other old titles to focus on big bets
- Razer laptop with external video card
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
- Writing an NES game in C
- "Reverse Engineering for Beginners" free ebook
- The secrets of Ikaruga and its developer, Treasure (perhaps my favorite shmup of all time)
- Long-Lost Shoot-'Em-Up Wing Force Discovered (ok, I really like shmups…)
- PS4 running Linux