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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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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It has been an eventful year for GameMaker developers, and today we learn of new price drop and subscription changes. Earlier this year it was announced that Opera (the browser maker, check out our Opera GX review here) announced YoyoGames, the developers of Game Maker Studio. Next at the end
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Unity Technologies went public back in 2020 with a nearly $14B valuation and currently with a current valuation of over $30B dollars. Being a publicly traded company puts pressure on them to increase revenue and we are seeing one such way they may be trying to maximize profits. According to
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Unity Technologies have just announced the aquisition of software maker Interactive Data Visualization (IDV), best known for their game middleware Speedtree. Speedtree is a AAA tested package of tools and SDKs for creating realistic and scalable trees, foliage and vegetation and is used by such companies as Epic Games, CD
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Following on the heels of several major acquisitions including Quixel, ArtStation, RAD Tools and Capturing Reality, Unreal Engine creator Epic Games have announced the acquisition of Sketchfab. Sketchfab is the largest online repository of 3D models, with over 4M assets available, both free and commercially. From the Epic Games announcement,
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Just one month after announcing their own 3D modelling application Substance 3D Modeler, Adobe have just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold level sponsor. The Blender Development Fund is the primary mechanism of funding the paid developers working on the Blender team. The announcement is brief and to
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It is rumoured that Chinese gaming giant Tencent are looking to acquire CryTek, the maker of the game engine CryEngine, as well as popular games such as The Hunt, The Climb and Crysis. CryEngine was once popular in the AAA space, but has gone radio silent of late. The last
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