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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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It hasn’t been a great month for Adobe… a firestorm started in response to Adobe Terms of Service Updates which lead to “the final straw” for many Adobe users who cancelled their subscriptions. Many of those that went to cancel their subscriptions got a rude surprise of rather copious cancellation
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The last major player in the entire Unity run-time fee fiasco, Marc Whitten, head of Unity CREATE (the division responsible for the Unity game engine) has announced his resignation. Marc was famously the person who stepped forward to apologize for the entire fiasco and may or may not have been
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Unity have a tumultuous 2022-2023 that lead to the removal of long time CEO John Riccitiello, who was replaced by former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who set about refocusing Unity on game development, undoing many of the decisions Riccitiello had made as well as leading the restructuring the entire
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Former EA CEO John Riccitiello was at the helm of Unity for almost a decade and during that time Unity have made several major moves. Among the highlights of the Riccitiello era include: So… how did these acquisitions and developments turn out? Well: So… not great. Although they still have Ziva
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