GameDev News - Week Ending May 26, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
* Unity 5.5.3p4 * Unity 2017.1.0b7 * Spotlight on Amplify Shader Editor: Making Your Game Stand Out With Custom Shaders - Unreal
* Unreal Engine 4.16 Released! - Cocos2d-x
* Cocos Creator v1.5 Released - CryEngine
* CRYENGINE Master Class: Blendspace - VR/AR
* Object Interaction Part 3: Releasing Objects - Microsoft
* Azure enables cutting edge Virtual Apps, Desktops and Workstations with NVIDIA GRID - Other
* GPU Zen book source code * 7 Japanese RPGs game developers should study * Introduction to A* * GitHub Marketplace * Postmortem: Muse Games' Guns of Icarus Alliance * Behind the music of Horizon Zero Dawn * Game Design Deep Dive: Creating tension in Card Thief
- Unity
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
* Beam becomes Mixer: Microsoft upgrades its Twitch rival * Microsoft launches Xbox Game Pass - Other
* Nintendo trials packaged version of Splatoon 2 featuring no game card * Injustice 2 and Farpoint lead UK weekly boxed charts * Humble Bundle has raised over $95 million for charity * Jobs lost at IO Interactive as Square Enix searches for buyer * Unity takes $400 million investment from Silver Lake * Digital game sales rise to $7.7bn in April - SuperData * Softbank buys Nvidia stake, worth a reported $4 billion * Sony's new discovery idea: Curating the curators * Switch and Pokémon boost GameStop Q1 sales * Nintendo Switch helps Best Buy fight off decline
- Microsoft-related
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting