GameDev News - Week Ending July 21, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
* Unity 2017.1.0p1 / 5.6.2p4 * Unity 2017.2.0b4 * Linear Rendering Support with WebGL 2.0 * A look inside: Core Foundation team and improving Unity’s testing practices * Investigating Unity iOS executable bloat - Microsoft
* GPUs in the task manager * Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 * Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new IntelliSense! - Other
* Autodesk will no longer sell game middleware * Helping You Kickstart, Part I: The Pre-Campaign Period
- Unity
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
* Software up, hardware down in latest Xbox financial results - VR/AR
* Leap Motion raises $50million investment for hand racking tech - Other
* Playdemic's Golf Clash generates $1.1m in a single day * Games business worth $200 billion by 2021 - Digi-Capital * Ubisoft's sales are more than 80% digital * Big in the West: Swery, Igarashi, and others discuss the Japanese game industry * Digital game sales to reach $7.8 billion this year - SuperData * DLC and Microtransations to be responsible for over half of digital console revenue in 2017
- Microsoft-related
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting