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General Weekly #4 06.22.22

The game development industry brings something new all the time. General Arcade shows the most interesting releases, updates and news of the past week, which are recommended reading for both industry veterans and novice developers.

In the news: Epic Online Services now lets you add crossplay to your PC games, Epic Games helped archaeologists bring a 10,000-year-old shaman back to life with MetaHuman, Radeon Memory Visualizer now supports Linux.

Interesting things: a report from the GDC about creating cognitive maps and designing spaces in which the player does not get lost, an easy introduction to D3D12, and how light and different types of shadows work.

Speed Brawl is free again!

London, 1888. After a decade of war with the Lunar invaders we named the Selenites, the British Empire finally vanquished the insect-like menace thanks to a dashing officer by the name of Hugo Wells. He crushed the colony’s queen and in doing so cemented his status as both a hero of the empire, and the de facto patriarch of the drone-like Selenites…