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The Unity game engine is about to get more expensive with newly announced price increases. Users of the personal and plus tiers are unaffected by this change, but the price of Pro and Unity plans will be changing October 13th. While the prices are increasing, the features included are also …
Unity have officially said no to the $20B merger offer from AppLovin the received unsolicited on August 10th. They also announced they will be continuing with the previously announced ironSource merger, a company very similar in scope and operation to AppLovin. Details of the announcement from Business Wire: Unity (NYSE: …
Key members of the Godot leadership team, specifically founder and leader developer Juan Linietsky and project coordinator Remi Vershelde, have just formed a new company called W4 Games. The purpose behind this company was described in this announcement Tweet about the formation of the company (which is in Ireland, if …
AppLovin, a company specializing in analytics and monetization for mobile applications, has made a $17.5B offer to buy Unity Technologies, the makers of the Unity game engine. This move comes less than one month after Unity announced the merger/acquisition of IronSource, a company very similar to AppLovin in purpose and …
Four years after announcing their cloud partnership with Google, it seems Unity have found a new online dance partner, Microsoft Azure. Today they have announced a broad partnership with Microsoft and specifically Microsoft Azure, which will have an impact on a wide variety of Unity’s online offerings. Details of the …
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 …
