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Unity have just announced they are merging with the app management and monetization company IronSource. This comes after a very busy couple years at Unity, following their successful IPO in 2020, their acquisition of Weta Digital and Parsec followed by major staff layoffs just a few weeks ago. Details of …
Unity have just announced layoffs of 4% of their workforce, or slightly over 200 employees. This comes shortly after a successful IPO near the end of 2020 which was followed by some major acquisitions including the $1.6B acquisition of Weta Digital. In recent months Unity’s stock has fallen drastically, currently …
Paradox Interactive have just launched an interesting new indie game developer publishing program, World of Darkness Unbound. This program enables indie game developers to create games set in the Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition universe and publish them to Itch.io either free to play or commercially. Revenue from commercial games …
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Cocos Technologies, the company behind the open source game development framework Cocos2d-x, as well as the free 2D/3D game engine, Cocos Creator, have just received a $50M USD investment. Cocos Creator is a free Unity-like 2D/3D game engine with a heavy focus on the web and mobile development. Details of …
Adobe have just acquired another 3D company, this time it’s Brio XR, a VR/AR/XR Metaverse company founded by former Alias and Mudbox founders. Brio XR will join the Adobe 3D Experiences team along side other acquisitions including Allegorthmic as well as Oculus Medium which has been rebranded as Substance 3D …
Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine have just acquired another company, the indie music publishing site/service Bandcamp. Details of the acquisition from the Bandcamp blog: I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, …
Pixologic, the creator of 3D sculpting software ZBrush has just been acquired by Maxon, the makers of Cinema4D. The deal is still subject to regulator approval and is expect to close the end of this month. Details of the acquisition from the ZBrush announcement: Since 1997, ZBrush has introduced innovations …
Fresh from the cash infusion of their successful IPO (to say nothing of the massive increase in stock price since then), Unity have acquired another company, SyncSketch. This is their second acquisition in as many months, with Unity acquiring Peter Jackson’s VFX software company Weta Digital last month and it …
Love it or hate it, but NFTs are coming to the world of game development, or at least their money is. Open source game engines Phaser, Godot and Defold as well as Blender have just received a combined total of $300K USD in grants from the NFT themed company OP …
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Unity have just launched a suite of new online services into beta today, as well as reorganizing existing online solutions under one common banner, Unity Gaming Services. Unity Gaming Services, or UGS, aim to provide end to end networking and business solutions for launching and running a multiplayer game. During …
