GameDev News - Week Ending November 17, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
* Unity 2017.2.0p2 * Unity 2017.3.0b9 * Updated Crunch texture compression library * Dealing with Scale in AR * Azure Storage SDK for Unity (shameless self-promotion part 1) - Unreal
* Technology Sneak Peek: Python in Unreal Engine * Posting Trello Cards from a Running UE4 Game - MonoGame
* Using the Azure Storage SDK with MonoGame (shameless self-promotion part 2) - CryEngine
* Community Update: Sandbox Source Code & CRYENGINE Documentation - VR/AR
* November Monthly Tech Release Notes for Oculus * Quality Capture and Compression in React VR * Medium Under The Hood: Part 3 - Move Tool and Asynchronous Operations - Microsoft
* Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17040 for PC * Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17035 now available * cppwinrt.exe in the Windows SDK * Xbox analytics report update in Dev Center * Introducing App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud * Side-by-side minor version MSVC toolsets in Visual Studio 2017 * C++ Core Check improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 * Improving the debugging experience for std::function - Other
* Classic Postmortem: The Behemoth's Alien Hominid * GameMaker Studio 2 gets new low-cost 'Creators Edition' * Dev Q&A: Zachtronics team on building personality into puzzles * Computer Graphics from Scratch book * Mud and Water of Spintires:MudRunner
- Unity
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
* Xbox One X hits 80,000 UK sales in first week - VR/AR
* Two VR titles from Supermassive Games delayed until 2018 * HTC unveils wireless, 6DoF VR headset * HTC and Google cancel wireless VR headset release in the US - Other
* AdColony shuts down AdMarvel, 125 jobs cut * What do game developers think about loot boxes? * Tencent online gaming revenue exceeds $4bn in latest quarterly financials * GameStop suspends its unlimited used games program * Nintendo Switch is dominated by physical sales - GAME * Mario can't prevent US game sales from falling 11% in October
- Microsoft-related
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting