GameDev News - Week Ending November 13, 2015

A quieter week than usual.  I’m guessing everyone’s playing Fallout rather than working/reporting. 

• Dev/Tools/Tech
  • Unity
    • Bedroom Demo: Archviz with SSRR (delayed)
    • Must-have Unity plugins - Part 1
    • From Tuesday's Unity tips, Gizmos
  • Unreal
    • UE4 to incorporate NVIDIA GameWorks VR
    • UE4 4.10 released
    • Multi-res Shading coming to UE4
  • Windows
    • DX12 Do's and Don'ts, Updated
    • NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition
  • Other
    • SpatialOS, a distributed OS for building virtual worlds
    • More Oculus Connect sessions posted
    • Top tips from the Interface conference
• Industry News
  • Microsoft-related
    • Activision moving into TV and movie business
    • 1 in 4 Steam users on Win10
    • NXOE and Backward Compatibility now available
  • Other
    • Sery65 taking a break due to health (guess we won't see new D4 episodes for a while)
    • Shahid Ahmad leaving SCEE to return to gamedev
    • Mobile App Developers are Suffering
    • Rovio doing well with Amazon Underground
    • Five lessons learned from DeltaDNA's in-game advertising study
    • Eyefluence nets $14m to keep making tech that tracks eyes as VR/AR input
    • JJ Abrams enters the gaming space
    • Video game history museum opening in Texas
    • Bringing old video games back from the dead
    • Land's End was released
    • Understanding this year's biggest video game copyright ruling
• Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
  • Carl Sagan wrote a design doc for a video game based on his work
  • Oculus Arcade on Gear VR
  • Artwork from unreleased Konami fighting game
  • Telltale Games Documentary