This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital.

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HTML5:

• Age of Ascent: An epic space game using Azure and WebGL

Game Dev:

• Retro Arcade – UE4, Oculus 2, 60FPS arcade simulation
• Looking back at Xbox Live Indie Games: The Do-it-yourself marketplace

• She Builds Games -Sharing thought-provoking stories of real women game developers to inspire the next generation
• Indie Dev Podcast, Ep 15 – Michael Hicks

Tech

• Two Microsofts – Ben Thompson

• Updates to Cordova tools for Visual Studio, iOS & Android
• Open Source of .NET Core Framework, .NET Core Distribution
• Community Edition of Visual Studio announced, free, allows extensions

Gaming

• Beyond gaming, the VR boom is everywhere, from classrooms to therapy couches
• Free Lightweight 8-bit voxel editor

• Following the closure of Official Nintendo Magazine, Nintendo has launched a digital publication, ‘Nintendo Extra’

Startups / VC:

• Why you don’t want to be acquired

Books

• Racing the Beam – the history of the Atari
• You Only Have To Be Right Once, Forbes
• The Four Disciplines of Execution