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A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced that it’s increasing the price to use Unreal Engine - not just for the game development community, Game Developer reported. The news came from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney himself in a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023. In a video captured by Fortnite Creative developer Immature (and spotted by
Unity has temporarily closed its offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas and cancelled a town hall meeting after receiving death threats, according to Bloomberg, as reported by Engadget. Earlier this week, the company announced a contentious change to its business model. “Today, we have been made aware of a potential threat to some of our offices. We have taken
Unity posted information on its blog that appears to have made game developers angry. The blog was titled: “Unity plan pricing and packaging updates”. Here is a piece of that blog:
Roblox, the popular kids gaming platform, is looking to bolster revenue by giving wider swath of users the ability to create and sell more types of digital goods, CNBC reported. The company said on Friday that subscribers to the Roblox app’s upper-tier premium plans, which gives users a monthly allowance of the Roblox digital currency, will be able to hawk
Xbox provided information about their Enforcement Strike System. The purpose appears to be a means of giving players, who are doing things Xbox doesn’t like, to have a penalty. From the blog post: We are constantly improving our safety measures and bringing more systems and tools in place that empower players to respectfully interact with one another - because everyone
Vice President, Brand, Hardware and Peripherals, SIE, Isabelle Tomatis, posted information about PlayStation’s highly customizable accessibility controller kit available to preorder starting on July 21. From the PlayStation blog: For the past five years, we’ve been on a journey with accessibility organizations and experts to create a versatile controller kit that enables games with disabilities to play more comfortably and
Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent and violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its artificial intelligence products, CNN reported. The proposed class action suit against Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind was filed in federal court in