GameDev News - May 10, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech
  • Unity
    • Unity 2019.1.2 / 2018.4.0 / 2017.4.27
    • Unity 2019.2.0b1
    • Unity 2019.2 beta is now available
    • Create a Physics Based Fighting Game in Unity
  • Unreal
    • Microsoft Build: Epic Games Recreates the Apollo 11 Mission for HoloLens 2 with Unreal Engine 4
  • Amazon/Lumberyard
    • Build a Twitch Extension With an AWS Serverless Backend
  • CryEngine
    • How we made Neon Noir - Ray Traced Reflections in CRYENGINE and more!
    • Roadmap Update is Live!
  • VR/AR
    • Developer Perspective: Insights from Creating an Oculus Go Puzzle Game
  • Stadia
    • Stadia Developer Update
  • Microsoft
    • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18895
    • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18890 available now!
    • Announcing TraceProcessor Preview 0.1.0
    • PIX CPU Tools: Graphing PIXReportCounter values in the Metrics View
    • PIX CPU Tools Reboot!
    • Introducing Windows Terminal
    • Announcing WSL 2
    • C++ with Visual Studio 2019 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
    • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3
    • Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
    • Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
    • Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview 1
    • Linux Development with C++ in Visual Studio 2019: WSL, ASan for Linux, Separation of Build and Debug
    • AddressSanitizer (ASan) for the Linux Workload in Visual Studio 2019
    • New code analysis quick fixes for uninitialized memory (C6001) and use before init (C26494) warnings
  • Other
    • Porting Dead Cells to mobile: An in-depth breakdown
    • Designing SteamWorld Quest's card-based battle system
    • 2D Graphics on Modern GPU
    • Customizing Nsight Graphics for Vulkan Applications
    • Reallusion Unveils Game Tools for Unity
• Industry News
  • Microsoft-related
    • Xbox Live coming to select Gameloft mobile titles
  • VR/AR
    • HP Reverb Review – An Impressive Headset Stuck with Windows VR Controllers
    • Google pivots away from VR hardware to focus on software
  • Other
    • Study sees link between loot boxes and gambling
    • Developing out loud for Amazon Alexa
    • WHO gaming disorder could cost South Korean economy over $9bn
    • Capcom's full-year results boosted by software strength
    • EA Access is launching on PlayStation 4 in July
    • Apex Legends, Anthem can't save EA's fourth quarter
    • Tencent gives up on monetising PUBG in China
    • Niko Partners: Chinese mobile gaming revenue up 29% last year despite license freeze
    • Global console content, services spend reaches record high in 2018
    • Proposed legislation aims to ban loot boxes in the United States
    • Read May’s MCV: Rebellion’s Jason Kingsley plus our huge North East regional spotlight
    • Sega acquires Two Point Studios
    • Konami enjoys fifth consecutive year of profit growth
    • Newzoo: More than one billion women are active gamers
    • Record-breaking Q1 revenues for Nexon at $840m
    • Ghost Recon Breakpoint will skip Steam for Epic Games Store
    • Unity seeks another $125 million in funding
• Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
  • Bringing New Life to Super Mario Land on the Gameboy
  • Various Sega Developer Documents
  • Bitmap Books To Release Metal Slug: The Ultimate History
  • The Best of the Commodore 64 Demoscene – April 2019
  • 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows