Game Developer

JANUARY 11, 2024

Discord's reductions come days after cuts were made at Unity and Twitch. Like at those companies, its cuts are by the hundreds.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Unity Game Engine is a highly advanced platform for Unity Game Developers […] The post Best Unity Game Development Companies in India appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Update : A company spokesperson has since clarified only the Github repository version of Unity's ToS were removed, while there was "never one moment" they weren't available on its website.

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MAY 2, 2024

Matthew Bromberg has been named as Unity's new CEO, the company announced today. Whitehurst will transfer to the executive chair of Unity's board, previously held by Roelof Botha who will become independent director of the board. Bromberg will take over the role from interim CEO Jim Whitehurst, starting May 15, 2024.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2023

Unity Create president Marc Whitten explains why the company thinks that "every pixel" of a game will one day be "touched by AI."

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 8, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unity Announce Massive Layoffs Since their successful IPO Unity has sadly been no stranger to massive layoffs. Whitehurst said the company would be facing a … Unity Announce Massive Layoffs Read More The post Unity Announce Massive Layoffs appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

Unity has announced it will no longer be selling or supporting Ziva Dynamics products, and has entered an agreement with VFX and animation studio DNEG to license the software. By focusing on these few areas, we believe we can best serve our community's needs," the company said. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

More companies and developers have joined a protest against Unity by switching off ads and monetisation. Last week, 16 studios cut off all Unity-based monetisation in protest of the company's proposed Runtime Fee policy.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Unity is adding a new charge for every time a game using the Unity Engine is installed, the company announced today. Starting January 1, a Unity Runtime Fee will be charged to any game that has passed a revenue threshold in the past year and a lifetime install count. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Earlier this week, Unity announced that from 2024 it will start charging developers for the number of downloads / installs of their games. From Unity's (and likely its shareholders') point of view, it has technically been subsidising developers' work (i.e., I have not seen the f-word (i.e.,

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity has unveiled its planned changes to the controversial Runtime Fee policy that would charge developers fees on a per-install basis. Unity Create president Marc Whitten detailed the changes in a blog post , starting with the removal of the Runtime Fee for any games built on a Unity Personal license. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Developers of indie puzzle game Orgynizer have claimed that Unity said organisations like Planned Parenthood are "not valid charities" and are instead "political groups." As Unity clarified the runtime fee will not apply to charity games , LizardFactory reached out to the company to clarify their game would be exempt from the plan.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anyone who has doubted the depth of the crisis at Unity in recent months need only look at its consequences: it takes more than a storm in a teacup to capsize a CEO. Riccitiello's name and reputation, however, was impossible to disentangle from the unforced errors that have collapsed Unity's relationship with so many developers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Unity executives informed staff today about some of the planned revisions to the controversial Runtime Fee policy it announced last week, according to Bloomberg.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unity Sell Digital Twins Business Unity Technologies, the makers of the popular Unity game engine, have just announced they are selling their Digital Twins professional services arm to Capgemini. Terms of the deal have not been announced.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Tencent, Apple, Nintendo, and Ubisoft reduced their carbon emissions from 2021 to 2022, while companies including Sega, NetEase, and Unity saw increases year-on-year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Unreal and Unity are the two biggest game development engines on the market, and the companies behind them have a lot more in common than that. Yesterday Epic laid off 830 people , or roughly 16% of the company. Check every Friday for a new entry. For example, they've both had very bad weeks. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity CEO John Riccitiello has offered more insight into the engine provider's plans for AI tools and more, despite the recent setback with its assets marketplace. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity has promised to change its proposed new policy of charging developers a fee every time their game is installed – although it has yet to release the details of these changes. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 3, 2023

Unity is cutting another 600 employees in its third round of layoffs in less than a year, The Wall Street Journal reported today. The cuts equal about 8% of the company's headcount, and will leave it with roughly 7,000 employees worldwide.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Unity has closed its San Francisco and Austin offices for today and tomorrow in response to what it called a credible death threat, according to Bloomberg. A spokesperson told the outlet the company was "made aware of a potential threat to some of our offices" and would be fully cooperating with law enforcement as it looks into the matter.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 5, 2023

Earlier this week, Unity announced its third round of layoffs in less than a year. It was the largest of the three rounds of cuts, hitting 600 employees, or about 8% of the company's headcount. Read more

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The financial statement for a fun little company called Unity. Not long ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the computer game development "community" regarding something called the Unity Game Engine. The chart released by Unity that caused the panic. One of the most popular game engines is called Unity. Or GamePass?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unity Technologies is laying off 284 people, the company confirmed to the Wall Street Journal today. In a letter to employees about the cuts, Unity CEO John Riccitiello explained, "We reassessed our objectives, strategies, goals and priorities in light of the current economic conditions. Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 13, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity last month released its 2023 Gaming Report , an overview of various trends in the industry informed by data pulled from the company's engine and Unity Gaming Services offering.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Avalon team is led by chief product officer Jeffrey Butler, one of the original producers for EverQuest and its first expansions, alongside Sean Pinnock, formerly CEO of virtual reality gaming company CyberDream, best known for Virtual Battlegrounds. Fluid importing According to the company, the game “is governed by its users.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity has posted its first profitable quarter in the company's 18-year history, albeit on a non-GAAP basis. In a letter to shareholders, the company reported a non-GAAP operating profit of $13 million for the three months ended December 31, 2022.

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MAY 11, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity has released its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2023, with strong revenues for the quarter but losses on the rise year-on-year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Terraria developer Re-Logic has donated $100,000 to open-source engines Godot and FNA, and will continue to sponsor the companies with $1,000 a month.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 24, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity has offered more insight into the improvements heading to its widely-used games engine this year. LTS update.

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Moonmana

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity: Depression, suicide and resuscitation Install fee is not a coincidence Many perceived the recent news of the introduction of the Unity Install Fee as an insult to developers, a loss of trust, a stab in the back, and a slap in the face to the entire community. Let’s start by examining the Unity stock chart.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Unity Global Inclusion Lead Tai Wingfield (she/her) shares reflections on her first year supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at the company.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A lot of people have asked me about Unity and their strange new per-install charges policy that they rolled out on September 12th, 2023. Unity Software Inc. In fact, over the past 12 months alone (August 2022 to August 2023), Unity Software Inc. In 2022, Unity spent four times as much money as they did in 2019.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Game tech has come a long way since Unity’s inception 18 years ago. As such, the Unity engine has had to continually evolve, both setting and supporting trends in the game dev space. “In the very early days that literally meant developers and the earliest Unity team calling each other and working stuff out together. .

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 29, 2023

Unity has removed one of its AI-driven partners from the Unity Asset Store after the company was apparently caught selling assets that weren't created by AI but taken from other creators. We've removed Atlas from our @AssetStore as they violated our terms and conditions," Unity said in a Twitter post. "We Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And sometimes we plan to write about one thing, but then Unity shoves its foot into its mouth clear up to the knee and we feel obligated to point at the company trying to choke down its own femur and say, "I don't know, seems like a bad idea?" Things in business, even. But sometimes expectations go unfilled. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2023

The opening was announced by AD Gaming, a local collaborative initiative that assists games companies such as Unity and Ubisoft with their operations in the area. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox My.Games has open a new office in Abu Dhabi as it seeks to expand its international presence.

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