GameDev News - September 20, 2019

Dev/Tools/Tech

• Unity
• Unity 2019.2.6
• Unity 2019.3.0b4
• Stream high-quality real-time graphics through your browser with our new WebRTC framework
• Support for Apple Sign in
• How the Lightweight Render Pipeline is evolving
• Unreal
• Update on Epic Online Services
• CryEngine
• CRYENGINE Learning: Lighting Tutorial
• VR/AR
• Increasing Fidelity with Constellation-Tracked Controllers
• Microsoft
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18985
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18980 available now!
• How to debug and profile any EXE with Visual Studio
• Open Sourcing MSVC's STL

Industry News

• Microsoft-related
• Gears 5 tops 3 million players in first week
• VR/AR
• Report: Facebook Strikes Deal with Ray-Ban Parent Company to Design "AR glasses"
• Other
• First Super Nintendo World theme park will open in ‘spring 2020’
• Borderlands 3 PC doubles 2's peak concurrent users at launch
• EMEAA charts: Slam dunk for NBA 2K20 in launch week
• PlayStation 4 has sold 30m units in the US, analyst reveals
• Newzoo: Android games will earn more revenue than iOS games in 2019
• E3 2020 pitch shows move towards celebrities, consumers and influencers
• Rockstar Games now has its own game launcher on PC
• Apple Arcade soft launches early, to surprise of some developers
• Twitch acquires Internet Gaming Database
• Valve launches revamped Steam Library in open beta
• Read the September issue of MCV online now
• NBCUniversal shuts down game publishing arm
• Google Stadia Founder's Edition is nearly sold out
• Unity acquires game marketing and analytics specialist deltaDNA
• Control's Epic Games Store exclusivity initially cost Epic $10.45 million

Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting

• Ed Logg on Asteroids and Gauntlet