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W4 Games, the Godot focused development company which just received an additional $15M in funding, just announced pricing for W4 Console. W4 Console is described as: W4 Consoles is a middleware software that serves as a technology layer, enabling seamless portability of games across multiple target platforms (Nintendo Switch™, Xbox […]
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W4 Games, a commercial company started to support the Godot ecosystem by several key Godot Engine developers, just received a huge investment, $15,000,000 specifically. This is the second round of investments they have received, with the first being an $8.5M investment in September 2022. Details of the new investment from
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After the disaster that was the Unity runtime fee announced on September 12th, the Unity developer world was absolutely set on fire. There was massive developer backlash as well as an outright revolt against Unity Ads and IronSource. All the while, the leadership team at Unity were completely silent until
Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT Read More
With the game development world already reeling from the Unity Runtime Fee price change announcement, any talk of price changes for Unreal Engine are bound to cause more than a bit of concern. In a recent presentation, explaining the major layoffs at Epic Games, Epic Games CEO made some announcements
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In another blow to the game development industry, Epic Games have just announced massive layoffs across the company. Part of the layoffs include divesting of two recently purchased companies, Bandcamp and Super Awesome. The layoffs will impact about 16% of the Epic workforce with about 830 employees impacted. The following
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The fallout to Unity’s recently announced price changes, including the new Unity Runtime Fee, keeps getting worse. While Unity have been mostly radio silent since the announcement, Unity developers certainly haven’t been. Now, they are fighting back in the only way they can, by hitting Unity in the pocket book.
Unity Developers Fight Back Read More
On Monday we reported on Unity’s new pricing plan which proposed among other changes, to add a Unity Runtime fee starting on January 1st to all Unity developed titles (ever) that met certain income thresholds. To say this was unpopular with developers would be an understatement. Since the initial announcement
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The Godot Foundation have just announced the new Godot Development Fund. This is a mechanism, similar to the Blender Development Fund, meant to help support the development of the Godot game engine through financial donations. Details from the Godot blog: Reducing platform fees, amplifying impact The Development Fund will make
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Today Unity have announced several massive changes to their pricing structure and the plans available to users of the Unity game engine. The heart of the changes is a new Unity Runtime fee, that kicks in January 1st (even on already shipped Unity titles!), which will require developers to pay
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Since launching the Epic Game Store back in 2018, Epic Games have announced a number of incentives to attract developers to their platform. This includes offering royalty free usage of Unreal Engine and a very developer friendly 88/12 revenue sharing model. Today they have announced an even better developer split…
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