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Epic Games have just announced the acquisition of Super Awesome, a company dedicated to the protection of children online. Super Awesome make a number of products for creators, game developers and advertisers to be able to collect information on children in a manner that is compliant with major laws such …
It was announced today that Epic Games was leading a $15M round of funding for Manticore Games, the creator of the Core game creation platform. Core is a member of a growing segment of “games for making games”, similar to other titles such as Dreams and Roblox. Core is built …
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After initially filing their S1 documents in August, today Unity successfully launched their IPO, or Initial Public Offering, now trading under the symbol U on the NYSE. The per share value opened at $52, giving Unity an initial valuation of $13.6B US. Unity actually left a bit of money on …
The ongoing saga of Epic Games vs Apple continues today with yet another lawsuit. First a quick recap of how we got here. August 14th Epic Games update Fortnite to include a new IAP (in-app purchase) option where you can buy VBucks from Epic as well as using the Apple …
A judge has made an important ruling in the ongoing conflict between Epic Games and Apple, with a huge impact for Unreal Engine developers.
After years of speculation, it has become official, Unity Technologies are filing an IPO and taking the company public.
Unity Technologies have just joined the Blender Development fund at the Patron (highest tier level). With this move they join the likes of AMD, NVIDIA and even rival engine maker Epic Games in supporting the popular 3D open source application. Details of the sponsorship from the Blender Press Release: “Ten …
On August the 14th, Epic Games launched a lawsuit against Apple after Fortnite was removed from the App Store for offering it owns IAP (In-App-Purchase) option along side Apple’s own. Today Apple retaliated against Epic Games by revoking it’s access to Apple devkits, making future support of Unreal Engine on …
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Unity Technologies have just announced the acquisition of Codice Software, the makers of PlasticSCM a version control software ideal for working with large datasets such as games.
News broke in June 2020 that Epic Games were looking for funding that would value the company at $17B. The first piece of that funding fell into place in July when it was announced that Sony would make a $250M investment in Epic. Today the rest of the dominoes fell into place with the announcement of a total of $17.8B in funding
