GameDev News - August 16, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech
  • Unity
    • Unity 2019.2.1 / 2017.4.31
    • Unity 2019.3.0a12
    • Faster C# scripting with JetBrains Rider
    • Accelerate your Terrain Material painting with the 2019.2 Terrain Tools update
    • Snaps asset packs make it easy to bring your projects to life
  • Unreal
    • Unreal 4.23 Preview 6
  • Amazon/Lumberyard
    • Amazon Game Tech at the AWS Innovate Online Conference: Watch On-Demand Now
  • CryEngine
    • 5.6 Rendering Upgrades Preview
  • VR/AR
    • Announcing Updated Cloud Storage for The Rift Platform, Oculus Quest and Go
  • Microsoft
    • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18963
    • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18956 available now!
    • Code, Recent Items, and Template Search In Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released!
    • C++ Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3: vcpkg, CMake configuration, remote headers, and WSL
    • Vcpkg: 2019.07 Update
    • Productivity Improvements for C++: New Default Colorization, Template Argument Filtering in Call Stack Window, and IntelliCode On-By-Default
    • New C++ Core Check Rules
    • Side-by-side Minor Version MSVC Toolsets in Visual Studio 2019
  • Other
    • The Door Problem of Combat Design
    • Data Structures Part 2: Indices
• Industry News
  • VR/AR
    • Nate Mitchell leaves Oculus
  • Other
    • Epic Games faces class action lawsuit over Fortnite data breach
    • Crash Team Racing limps to the top of the UK chart
    • Discord adds limited gameplay streaming
    • Steam Workshop items for Valve games to require official approval
    • TIGA survey finds 72% of UK developers use Unity
    • Dr. Mario World continues to lag after first month
    • US tariffs on video game consoles imported from China delayed to December
    • Game revenues rise as Tencent enjoys end of China's approvals freeze
    • Epic Games and Factor 5 founders opens new studio in Cologne
    • NPD: Nintendo sweeps July, though Madden takes the crown
• Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
  • Tanglewood source code

Comments

[Nucu Labs]

I've been using Rider for some time now, it's amazing! Coming from a Linux background I can't get myself used to Visual Studio.

[Duke]

if only it had a community edition like intelliJ IDEA...