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Game and movie 3D asset provider KitBash3D have just announced they are merging with another CG asset provider, Greyscalegorilla. Immediately the merger should have no immediate effect on their existing customers. Details from the press release: PORTLAND, Ore. — September 9, 2025 — Today, KitBash3D, a pioneer in 3D asset
KitBash3D & Greyscalegorilla Merge Read More
The Blender Foundation, which handles the financing of the open-source Blender application’s development, just had an amazing summer. Several new companies have sponsored the company, two at the highest Patron level, while also adding a gold level sponsor. This is a chart showing the financial commitment for each corporate backer
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The Godot Foundation now has a new Platinum Level sponsor, the software development tools maker JetBrains. JetBrains makes a number of IDEs for a variety of languages that work on Mac, Windows and Linux. Perhaps of most relevance to game developers is their Rider IDE which recently got a free
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Earlier this week 80.lv ran the incredibly misleading (some could say click-baity) article Analyst Suggests Apple Might be Considering Buying Unity After Legal Defeat to Epic Games. Might is doing some heavy lifting there as there is no actual evidence that Apple or any other company are currently looking to
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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,
Apple Suffers Major App Store Lawsuit Loss Read More
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
EA Pledges 23 Patents and Open-Source Tech Read More
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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