GameDev News - May 3, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech
  • Unity
    • Unity 2019.1.1
    • Unity 2019.2.0a14
    • Announcing Unity Learn, a brand new learning platform
    • The Asset Store, new and improved, starting today
    • Microsoft and Unity announce HoloLens 2 Development Edition
  • Unreal
    • Featured free Marketplace content - May 2019
    • Vivox Adds Voice Chat Integration with Unreal Engine 4
  • Godot
    • Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.1
  • VR/AR
    • Down The Rabbit Hole w/ Oculus Quest: The Hardware + Software
    • Down The Rabbit Hole w/ Oculus Quest: Developer Best Practices + The Store
  • Microsoft
    • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18890
    • Matali Physics 4.7 Supports Universal Windows Platform on Xbox One
    • Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension: May 2019 Update
    • Microsoft Build Accelerator
    • PlayFab - Upcoming Roadmap: 2019 Q2 (April – June) Edition
  • Other
    • A brief history of 3D texturing in video games
    • Ogre3D 1.12 Released
    • Unigine 2.8 Released
    • NVIDIA Releases GLSL Generator for DescriptorSet Indexed Types
    • RenderDoc 1.3 Released, plus RenderDoc Survey
    • Babylon.js 4.0 Is Here!
    • AGuideToRustGraphicsLibraries2019
• Industry News
  • VR/AR
    • Magic Leap gets $280m investment from Docomo
    • Valve Index VR headset ships June 28 for $499-$999
    • Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest launch May 21 for $399 each
    • Developer's edition of HoloLens 2 launches today at $3,500
  • Other
    • Nintendo Switch Online reaches 9.8m subscribers in six months
    • PlayStation Now downloads get double the play time of streamed games
    • UK Charts: Days Gone defeats Mortal Kombat 11 to claim No.1
    • Nintendo pulls A Dark Room from eShop over secret code editor
    • Steam crosses 1 billion registered accounts
    • Epic Games acquires Rocket League dev Psyonix
    • Google Stadia caused investors to walk away from Slightly Mad's console
    • Ubisoft and Genba to "kill the grey market" with silent key activation
    • Zynga's Q1 revenues, losses top expectations
    • Activision Blizzard sees predicted Q1 start to "transition year"
• Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting
  • The Amiga before the Amiga: The Amiga Development System
  • Classic Game Postmortem: Paperboy
  • Original Earthworm Jim team reunites for new, Intellivision Amico-exclusive entry
  • Sonic The Hedgehog film character design will change, says director
  • Microsoft Solitaire, three others join World Video Game Hall of Fame
  • Making of Newton Protocol
  • Game On—what was it like to make games during the 80's?