Dev/Tools/Tech

• Unity
• Unity 2019.2.9 / 2018.4.11 / 2017.4.33
• Customizing Snaps Prototype assets with ProBuilder
• Improve workflows, validate decisions, and avoid errors with Presets
• CryEngine
• CRYENGINE 5.6.3 hotfix available now
• Godot
• Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 2
• Vulkan progress report #4
• VR/AR
• Developer Perspective: Optimizing Performance For Fast-Paced Interactions on Quest
• Microsoft
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18999
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18995 available now!
• Code analysis with clang-tidy in Visual Studio
• Other
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend Series
• Game Networking Demystified, Part V: Client Prediction
• GameMaker Studio 2 v2.2.4 Available

Industry News

• Microsoft-related
• Microsoft expands Windows/Xbox family settings to Android
• Mixer viewership down in Q3 despite Ninja's exclusivity deal
• Mike Ybarra departs Microsoft
• Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi departs Microsoft
• VR/AR
• HTC Responds to Common Cosmos Complaints, Promises Improvements
• Other
• FIFA 20 remains leagues ahead in UK charts
• FIFA 20 arrives atop EMEAA charts
• PS4 Remote Play is now supported on Android 5.0 phones and tablets
• NPD Group: 73% of Americans play video games
• Report: Google plans 'Game Certified Device' standard for Android
• A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5—Haptics, UI Facelift, and More
• Man breaks into Valve, steals $40,000 of equipment, games
• Call of Duty Mobile sees best first-week downloads of any mobile game
• Doom Eternal delayed to March
• Catalina brings Apple Arcade to MacOS but kills support for 32-bit games
• Sony Interactive Entertainment EU reportedly lays off "dozens" amid restructuring
• Nintendo Switch sales in Europe pass 10m
• Steam will soon let users play local-multiplayer games over the internet

Games/Retro/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting

• Former Nintendo lawyer and Kirby namesake John Kirby dies
• Behind the HONK: An Untitled Goose Game Q&A
• Cartridge Printed Circuit Boards