GameDev News - December 13, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech

  • Unity
  • Unity 2019.2.16 / 2018.4.14
  • Unity 2019.3.0f3
  • Unity 2020.1.0a16
  • 2019.3 is now in the final stages of beta testing
  • Unreal
  • Unreal Engine 4.24 is now available!
  • Apollo 11 Mission AR Project Sample available now on the Unreal Engine Marketplace
  • Amazon/Lumberyard
  • New Asset Dependency System in Amazon Lumberyard 1.22
  • CryEngine
  • Part Three of our CRYENGINE Physics Constraints Tutorial Series
  • CRYENGINE 5.6.5 hotfix available now
  • News: Improve your scenes with HDR skies
  • VR/AR
  • Hand Tracking SDK for Oculus Quest Available with v12 Release
  • Mixed Reality Capture on Quest: Workflow, Integrations + Insights
  • Google Unveils ARCore Depth API to Make AR More Natural & Interactive
  • Oculus Quest Hand-tracking Rolls Out This Week, SDK Next Week
  • Oculus Link Beta Now Supports Some AMD GPUs
  • Microsoft
  • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041
  • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 19035 available now!
  • Modernizing Find in Files
  • Build C++ Applications in a Linux Docker Container with Visual Studio
  • Other
  • King Knight's Map: Building Secret Paths
  • iOS/Android/Steam sales case study: Golf Peaks

• Industry News

  • Microsoft-related
  • Power Your Dreams with Xbox Series X, Available Holiday 2020
  • Xbox Series X officially revealed at The Game Awards
  • VR/AR
  • Magic Leap is renaming its AR headset to attract business customers
  • Report: Magic Leap Sees Sluggish Sales Numbers Amidst Latest Funding Round
  • Oculus Quest hand tracking is available as an experimental feature
  • Other
  • 2K opens Cloud Chamber to build "another unforgettable BioShock experience"
  • FIFA 20 returns to No.1 on EMEAA charts for fifth week since launch
  • Sony's MLB The Show will be released on rival consoles
  • UK Charts: No new releases means Mario Kart 8 Deluxe races back to No.3
  • Resident Evil 2 remake surpasses five million sales
  • GameStop Q3 global sales down again, expected full-year decline in the high-teens
  • GameStop winding down operations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
  • Greg Rice, Christian Svensson join Sony
  • The Game Awards launches 48-hour digital demo event
  • Nintendo Switch sold estimated 50k units in China on launch day
  • Mobile games made 15 times more revenue than entertainment apps in a single year
  • Bethesda adds John Romero Sigil mod to Doom console ports
  • NPD: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order debuts at No.2 in the US for November
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards

• Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting

  • The Year of PR Disasters
  • Vextreme: An Open-Source Vectrex Flash Cart
  • Fusion Retro Books has many books in PDF for free and some others for up to £2
  • How A NES Controller Works
  • A QA breakdown of The Outer Worlds' elusive companion killing bug

Comments

[jeikabu]

Glad to see you mention the new asset processing in Lumberyard 1.22. We've been eagerly awaiting this since we first heard about it like 6 months ago. Having used both CryEngine and Unity in the past, this was one thing sorely missing and a real boon to live titles.