GameDev News - August 30, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech
  • Unity
    • Unity 2019.2.3 / 2018.4.8
    • Unity 2019.3.0b1
    • Unity 2019.3 beta is now available
    • Static Lighting with Light Probes
    • Evolving the Unity Editor UX
  • Unreal
    • Unreal Engine 4.23 Preview
    • It’s a wrap! We recap Unreal Engine’s week at SIGGRAPH 2019
    • Unreal Engine at SIGGRAPH 2019—all recordings now available
  • CryEngine
    • CRYENGINE 5.6 is available now!
  • VR/AR
    • Getting Started with Godot: The Open Source Game Engine | Oculus
    • Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community
  • Microsoft
    • D3DConfig: A new tool to manage DirectX Control Panel settings
    • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18970
    • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18965 available now!
  • Other
    • Creating a narrative focused mission design document: A Last of Us example
    • Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine & Cosine
    • A Labyrinth Generation Algorithm
    • Instant Tileset Generation Tool Available for Download
    • Entity Component System Flecs v1.0 Released
• Industry News
  • VR/AR
    • Valve Index Teardown Glimpses Screen Diffuser and Dual-element Optics
  • Other
    • UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe takes No. 1 (but it should be Minecraft, again)
    • Warner Bros. forms new free-to-play mobile studio in San Diego
    • Investors reveal plans to relaunch Telltale Games
    • CD Projekt first-half revenues climb 26%
    • Lucky's Tale dev Playful secures $23 million to create viewer-friendly games
• Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
  • Now machine translation can translate emulated games while you're playing them (thanks to Jeff Ballard for sending)
  • Emulator aims to keep Flash games alive and kicking after official support ends
  • 20 years after Seaman, Saito reflects on creativity and making new, strange things
  • Ultra-rare NES-era Konami games discovered, already emulated