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Hot on the heels of Apple’s AppStore legal loss forcing them to open up the App Store in the US to external stores, Epic Games have another major announcement. You will be able to host/sell your games on their newly created Web Shops. In addition, they have also announced a
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All the way back in August of 2020 Epic Games launched an antitrust lawsuit against Apple mostly revolving around the 30% fees charged by the Apple app store. In response, among other actions such as pulling Fortnite, Apple launched a countersuit. After years of legal battles in April of 2023,
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This week EA announced they were adding 23 patents to their accessibility patent pledge. In addition, they released a new open-source project, the IRIS Unreal Engine plugin which can be used to detect photosensitivity moments in games. This plugin is built upon the already open source IRIS library and is
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Since the Unity run-time fiasco which caused a massive developer backlash, that lead to most of the leadership team being removed from the company. In May Unity hired a new CEO, ex-Zynga executive Mathew Bromberg, who promised extensive changes to the way the company would operate. Most recently that effort
Along side the announcement of Unreal Engine 5.5, Epic games just announced Launch Everywhere with Epic. In a nutshell this program will enable you to cut your Unreal Engine royalty from 5% to 3.5% with one major caveat. Your games need to launch before or during the launch on other
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Today, on exactly the one year anniversary of Unity’s biggest mistake, Unity have announced they are completely removing the maligned run-time fee. When first announced the fee was a massive overreach and caused a huge backlash within the Unity community that can still be felt to this day. In response
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The developer of the popular Unity mobile title Marvel Snap, have just announced they are using the Godot game engine for future game development. In addition they have invested in Godot based company W4Games (learn more). Details from Venture Beat: Second Dinner said it will invest in W4 Games and it will also
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In a rather stark tweet, Humble Games announced they would be “restructuring”: In these challenging economic times for indie game publishing, Humble Games has made the difficult but necessary decision to restructure our operations. This decision was not made lightly; it involved much deliberation and careful thought, with the goal
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On June 17th, 2024 the US Department of Justice filled a lawsuit against Adobe over their business practices, specifically their early cancellation fees and the difficulty customers face when attempting to cancel their Creative Cloud accounts. The initial filling was heavily redacted (PDF Link). Today however, the redacting has been
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Adobe set of a firestorm of user backlash when they forced users to agree to their updated terms of use for popular products such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator. In those updated terms of use was some massively overreaching language that seemingly allowed Adobe to use users Creative Cloud
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