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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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The ongoing lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple, started all the way back in August 2020 is now over, with Apple winning on 9 of 10 claims. This was decided by the US Ninth Court of Appeal upholding the decisions of Judge Rogers in September 2021 (TL;DR summary here). Details
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If you are an indie developer creating PC games, it has just become easier to publish your title to the Epic Game Store thanks to new self publishing features. Details of the new feature from the announcement blog: We’re pleased to announce the Epic Games Store is now open to
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If you are an indie game developers, with a PC or Console game in development with at least a playable demo, the just launched Game Dev Fund might be ideal for you. It is an early stage investor and mentoring program composed of several game and game engine developers (
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Last June Unity announced they would be laying off 4% of their workforce, or slightly over 200 people. A few days back Unity CEO John Riccitiello announced that Unity would be laying off an additional 284 employees. Unlike the earlier layoffs though, these ones are mostly from overlapping positions, most
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Launched last month by key Godot Engine leaders, W4Games just announced they have received an $8.5M investment from a number of different sources. W4Games was formed to support Godot engine development in several areas where it currently faces difficulty, including support for proprietary consoles as well as in corporate use.
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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