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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 …
Of all the major corporations absent from the Blender Development Fund, Apple was always the most glaring omission. As of today that has changed as Blender have announced that Apple have joined the fund as a Patron level sponsor. There are minimal details on the Blender news page: The Blender …
While seemingly insignificant to many people, logo and branding are of huge importance to large companies and yesterday, Unity have decided to update their classic logo. In this rather in-depth blog post, they describe the changes they made to the logo and wordmark. To start, we completely redesigned the cube …
Autodesk, the makers of popular game development software such as 3ds Max and Maya, have just announced a new PAYG or Pay As You Go pricing scheme called Autodesk Flex. Under Autodesk Flex an organization can buy tokens, which can then be shared by users within the organization. Each time …
Unity have just acquired another company, Parsec, makers of high performance remote desktop and gaming software. This is just on of several acquisitions Unity have made, previous purchases including the likes of ChilliConnect, SpeedTree (IDV), Codice Software and Artomatix and it sounds like more acquisitions are on the horizon. Parsec’s …
