Новости за 13.12.2016

Valve has put out a new build of its Steam digital distribution and application programming interface, with a host of improvements and fixes. Notable in this release is the pile of improvements it's brought in for Gamepads, including native support for Sony's PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 Controller.

Unity 5.5's stable release was only a couple of weeks ago, but Unity are already looking to the future, with the company releasing a 5.6 beta today, with a stable release planned in the Spring.

UK production company The Imaginarium Studios has appointed Gina Jackson as the head of their recently launched games division, a move The Imaginarium say will "cement the company's intentions to bring their expertise and technology into the games sector."

Over the weekend, several reports have surfaced suggesting that video game outfit Crytek has been paying staff late, or not at all, for much of 2016.

London-based startup Improbable has today announced a joint game development program dubbed The SpatialOS Games Innovation Program with Google Cloud Platform. In this program, tech giant Google will partner up with improbable to subsidise access for "qualified developers" to Improbable's SpatialOS program.

Where did the inspiration for Space Pirate Trainer come from?

Back in October 2015, when I received a prototype of the Vive, it only had a handful of demos. All of them were beautiful or very good tech demos, but there was no real action in there.

Being inside of room-scale VR for the first time reminded me of those classic arcade machines that I used to play when there was a fair in the neighbourhood. I decided I wanted to shoot lasers at droids like in Galaga, and dodge bullets like Neo... Читать дальше...