GameDev News - Week Ending September 19, 2015
Quite a few links this week. Off to the Unite conference next week and I expect we’ll see lots of exciting Unity news…until then!
- Industry News
- Nintendo names new president (and promotes Miyamoto to a Fellow position)
- Lionhead creative directory leaves: http://www.develop-online.net/news/lionhead-creative-director-quits/0211209
- EA kills a bunch of mobile games: http://www.develop-online.net/news/dead-space-and-real-racing-among-23-mobile-games-killed-by-ea/0211245
- Project Morpheus is now…PlayStation VR: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/09/15/playstation-vr-is-the-official-name-for-the-ps4-virtual-reality-system/
- …and will be priced "as a new gaming platform": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/sony-to-offer-more-than-10-titles-with-first-virtual-reality-set
- Changes at Halfbrick: http://www.develop-online.net/news/halfbrick-makes-its-game-designers-redundant/0211281
- GeForce Experience Share beta now available: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-share-early-access-beta-available-now
- FireTV Gaming Edition from Amazon: https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/TxBKAU1SVQ97CE/Introducing-the-New-Amazon-Fire-TV-and-Fire-TV-Gaming-Edition-Powered-By-Fire-OS
- Konami stopping all console dev except for Metal Gear Online and PES
- VR headsets to approach 30m units by 2020: http://www.juniperresearch.com/press/press-releases/virtual-reality-headset-shipments-to-approach-30-m
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Unity coming to Apple TV: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/09/14/unity-is-coming-to-apple-tv/
- Resource Binding in DX12
- Marmalade 7.9 now available (Win10 support out of beta): https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/blog/marmalade-79-now-available
- Unreal Engine 4.9.1 hotfix released: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?84364-4-9-1-Hotfix-Released
- All Apple TV games must support the remote: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/253683/Apple_forbids_devs_from_requiring_a_controller_for_Apple_TV_games.php
- Building Windows 10 Games with Unity 5 (MSVA course with Adam Tuliper): https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/en-US/training-courses/building-windows-10-games-with-unity-5-12572?l=EJJiCpxPB_8401937557
- WinTools 1.1, TypeScript 1.6 RTM and Tools for Apache Cordova Updates: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/09/16/wintools-1-1-typescript-1-6-rtm-and-tools-for-apache-cordova-updates.aspx
- Infiltrator project for UE4 released for free: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/infiltrator-released-for-free
- Asteroids DX12 sample from Intel: https://github.com/GameTechDev/asteroids_d3d12
- Unity 5.2.0p1 released: http://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases/
- Marmalade expands to Amazon Appstore: https://www.madewithmarmalade.com/amazon
- Microsoft-related
- Windows 10 device event in NYC on 10/6: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/14/9322809/microsoft-surface-pro-4-lumia-950-october-6th-event
- Fewer hamburger buttons in latest Win10 Phone build: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/09/a-new-windows-10-mobile-build-with-a-few-less-hamburgers/
- Windows RT 8.1 Update 3 drops
- Elite controller launches Oct 27: http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/18/9353941/xbox-one-elite-controller-gets-a-release-date
- Xbox app + beta: http://news.xbox.com/2015/09/xbox-one-windows-10-app-september-update
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
- PlayStation TGS press event: http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/15/9329719/playstation-tgs-news-ps4-vita
- Rainbow Six Siege beta signup for XB1/PS4/PC: http://rainbow6.ubi.com/siege/en-US/beta/index.aspx
- Sega shoes: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/18/9351099/sega-shoes