The Chinese government have just announced new regulations that will have a MASSIVE impact on the world of game development. It immediately resulted in huge stock market losses for China’s two largest gaming companies Tencent and NetEase. The announcement is a crackdown on “gacha” style monetization strategies, loot boxes and …

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The Epic Games v. Google lawsuit, first filed back in 2020, has just reached a jury verdict, with the jury finding for Epic Games on 11 of the 11 counts. Summary of the verdict from the Verge: After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to …

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W4 Games, the Godot focused development company which just received an additional $15M in funding, just announced pricing for W4 Console. W4 Console is described as: W4 Consoles is a middleware software that serves as a technology layer, enabling seamless portability of games across multiple target platforms (Nintendo Switch™, Xbox …

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W4 Games, a commercial company started to support the Godot ecosystem by several key Godot Engine developers, just received a huge investment, $15,000,000 specifically. This is the second round of investments they have received, with the first being an $8.5M investment in September 2022. Details of the new investment from …

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After the disaster that was the Unity runtime fee announced on September 12th, the Unity developer world was absolutely set on fire. There was massive developer backlash as well as an outright revolt against Unity Ads and IronSource. All the while, the leadership team at Unity were completely silent until …

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With the game development world already reeling from the Unity Runtime Fee price change announcement, any talk of price changes for Unreal Engine are bound to cause more than a bit of concern. In a recent presentation, explaining the major layoffs at Epic Games, Epic Games CEO made some announcements …

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In another blow to the game development industry, Epic Games have just announced massive layoffs across the company. Part of the layoffs include divesting of two recently purchased companies, Bandcamp and Super Awesome. The layoffs will impact about 16% of the Epic workforce with about 830 employees impacted. The following …

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The fallout to Unity’s recently announced price changes, including the new Unity Runtime Fee, keeps getting worse. While Unity have been mostly radio silent since the announcement, Unity developers certainly haven’t been. Now, they are fighting back in the only way they can, by hitting Unity in the pocket book. …

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On Monday we reported on Unity’s new pricing plan which proposed among other changes, to add a Unity Runtime fee starting on January 1st to all Unity developed titles (ever) that met certain income thresholds. To say this was unpopular with developers would be an understatement. Since the initial announcement …

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The Godot Foundation have just announced the new Godot Development Fund. This is a mechanism, similar to the Blender Development Fund, meant to help support the development of the Godot game engine through financial donations. Details from the Godot blog: Reducing platform fees, amplifying impact The Development Fund will make …

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