GameDev News - September 20, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech

  • Unity
  • Unity 2019.2.6
  • Unity 2019.3.0b4
  • Stream high-quality real-time graphics through your browser with our new WebRTC framework
  • Support for Apple Sign in
  • How the Lightweight Render Pipeline is evolving
  • Unreal
  • Update on Epic Online Services
  • CryEngine
  • CRYENGINE Learning: Lighting Tutorial
  • VR/AR
  • Increasing Fidelity with Constellation-Tracked Controllers
  • Microsoft
  • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18985
  • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18980 available now!
  • How to debug and profile any EXE with Visual Studio
  • Open Sourcing MSVC's STL

• Industry News

  • Microsoft-related
  • Gears 5 tops 3 million players in first week
  • VR/AR
  • Report: Facebook Strikes Deal with Ray-Ban Parent Company to Design "AR glasses"
  • Other
  • First Super Nintendo World theme park will open in ‘spring 2020’
  • Borderlands 3 PC doubles 2's peak concurrent users at launch
  • EMEAA charts: Slam dunk for NBA 2K20 in launch week
  • PlayStation 4 has sold 30m units in the US, analyst reveals
  • Newzoo: Android games will earn more revenue than iOS games in 2019
  • E3 2020 pitch shows move towards celebrities, consumers and influencers
  • Rockstar Games now has its own game launcher on PC
  • Apple Arcade soft launches early, to surprise of some developers
  • Twitch acquires Internet Gaming Database
  • Valve launches revamped Steam Library in open beta
  • Read the September issue of MCV online now
  • NBCUniversal shuts down game publishing arm
  • Google Stadia Founder's Edition is nearly sold out
  • Unity acquires game marketing and analytics specialist deltaDNA
  • Control's Epic Games Store exclusivity initially cost Epic $10.45 million

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

  • Ed Logg on Asteroids and Gauntlet