GameDev News - September 6, 2019

• Dev/Tools/Tech

  • Unity
  • Unity 2019.2.4 / 2017.4.32
  • Unity 2019.3.0b2
  • Watch the Unity Graphics Sessions from SIGGRAPH 2019
  • Advanced Animation Rigging: Character and props interaction
  • Unity Addressables: It’s never too big to fit
  • Managing UI between scenes in Unity - General and Gameplay Programming
  • Unreal
  • Unreal Engine 4.23 released!
  • Real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine: Part 1 - the evolution
  • Featured Free Marketplace Content - September 2019
  • UE4 Optimized Post-Effects
  • CryEngine
  • CRYENGINE 5.6.1 hotfix available now
  • Godot
  • Vulkan progress report #3
  • Introducing the Godot Proposals repository
  • VR/AR
  • Oculus Tech Updates: September, 2019
  • Microsoft
  • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18975
  • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362.10019 (19H2)
  • Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18970 available now!
  • Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available
  • Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
  • Other
  • This fall's MacOS update ends support for all 32-bit apps
  • Steam Labs Update

• Industry News

  • Microsoft-related
  • Project xCloud to use SK Telecom exclusively in Korea
  • VR/AR
  • Ubisoft Hiring 50 Person Team for an "unannounced AAA VR project"
  • Other
  • Pokemon Masters has topped 10 million downloads in four days
  • PEGI defends decision to rate NBA 2K20 as PEGI 3 despite a teaser trailer depicting slot machines
  • Crash Team Racing tops slow August charts
  • The best-selling games product on Amazon last month was a Switch screen protector
  • Steam Library overhaul to focus on organization, events
  • Nintendo teases Switch peripheral focused on physical exercise

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

  • Nintendo adds SNES titles to Nintendo Switch Online
  • Seaman creator Yoot Saito on the Dreamcast AI that was ahead of its time