GameDev News - Week Ending November 6, 2015
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity
- Unity 5.2.2p3 released: http://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases
- Unreal
- Windows
- Notifications Visualizer for Win10: http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/11/02/introducing-notifications-visualizer-for-windows-10/
- Experimental C++ editor tools in VS2015 Update 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/11/03/introducing-the-experimental-page-for-c-c-editor-tools.aspx
- Dev update for Microsoft Band: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/11/04/developer-update-for-microsoft-band.aspx
- C++ Build Tools 2015: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/11/02/announcing-visual-c-build-tools-2015-standalone-c-tools-for-build-environments.aspx
- Marmalade
- New Marmalade Platform release (SDK, Marmalade Analytics, Asset Store): https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/blog/new-marmalade-platform-release
- Cocos2d-x
- Cocos2d-x 3.9 beta0 released: http://discuss.cocos2d-x.org/t/cocos2d-x-3-9-beta0-released/24507
- SDKBOX 1.4 released: http://cocos2d-x.org/sdkbox
- MonoGame/XNA
- Other
- Oculus Connect 2 Developer Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL2xVXGs1SP4kxSKQsG40PCsItIujwznZ
- apitrace - trace and replay OGL(ES), D3D, Ddraw calls: http://apitrace.github.io/
- Animating with Spriter: http://www.develop-online.net/tools-and-tech/tools-spotlight-animating-with-spriter/0213371
- Xamarin Inspector: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-inspector-preview/
- Develop Magazine - November issue: http://issuu.com/newbayeurope/docs/develop_166_november_2015
- Unity
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
- Halo 5 players have already spent $500k in microtransactions: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258551/Halo_5_players_have_already_spent_over_500000_on_microtransactions.php
- Other
- Sega misses financial forecast: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sega-financials-fall-short-of-reduced-forecast/0158362
- USA home to more than 1600 game studios and publishers: http://www.develop-online.net/news/usa-home-to-more-than-1-600-game-studios-and-publishers/0213194
- Activision buys King: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258224/Activision_buys_Candy_Crush_creator_King_for_6B.php
- King's revenues and users drop, but doing better than expected: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258460/Kings_revenues_and_users_drop__but_its_doing_better_than_expected.php
- …and analyst reactions: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258332/Analysts_react_to_ActivisionBlizzards_59B_purchase_of_King.php
- Top game companies by revenue: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258211/Tencent_still_on_top_in_latest_list_of_top_game_companies_by_revenue.php
- Konami closes LA studio: http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/3/9667230/konami-kojima-productions-los-angeles-studio-closed-metal-gear
- Zynga beats earnings, loses users, CFO resigns: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/258345/Zynga_beats_earnings_estimates__but_loses_users.php
- Kickstarter hits $2b pledged (games top category): https://www.kickstarter.com/2billion
- Kabam gets new CTO: http://www.develop-online.net/news/kabam-s-jeff-howell-promoted-to-cto/0213322
- More female console owners in US than male: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/more-women-own-consoles-than-men-in-the-us/0158591
- Developer-run item stores on Steam: http://www.develop-online.net/news/steam-s-developer-run-item-stores-debut-with-rust/0213375
- Nearly 2000 app devs made $1m this year: http://www.develop-online.net/news/infographic-nearly-2-000-app-developers-made-1m-this-year/0213372
- $2.4b in revenue for PC & mobile games in Southeast Asia by 2019: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258608/Report_24B_in_revenue_for_PC_amp__mobile_games_in_Southeast_Asia_by_2019.php
- SNK ditching pachinko/pachislo machines for video games: http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/05/snk-focuses-more-on-video-games/
- Vision Summit 2016 (Super Early Bird passes available): http://visionsummit2016.com/
- Take-Two revenues up: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/258619/TakeTwo_revenues_leap_as_NBA_2K16_soars.php
- Valve will give away Steam Link tech to manufacturers: http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-will-give-away-steam-link-tech-to-manufacturers/0213449
- Microsoft-related
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
- Ms. Pac-Man Classic Gaming Postmortem at GDC2016: http://www.gdconf.com/news/ms_pac-man_is_the_star_of_a_cl.html
- The making of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258603/The_making_of_Prince_of_Persia_The_Sands_of_Time.php
- They finally got the PlayStation SNES-CD prototype running
- Making of Cuphead: http://www.redbull.com/en/games/stories/1331758042492/cuphead-xbox-one-interview