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Unity CEO John Riccitiello Retires, Whitehurst Appointed Interim CEO And President

October 10, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Unity Technologies continues to feel the ripples from its extremely unpopular decision to tack on additional fees for every installation of Unity-run games as John Riccitiello retires from his role as CEO, president, chairman, and member of the board of directors effective immediately. He is ultimately the person responsible for the controversial runtime fees which earned the company the ire [...]

Unity Technologies Outlines Proposed Changes To Its Highly-Criticized Runtime Fees

September 23, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Earlier this week, Unity Technologies finally responded to the intense backlash that it received over its new Unity runtime fees. The company offered a general apology and promised that they’ll be making changes to the policy in an effort to appease the video game development community. The company has now outlined proposed changes to the controversial fees and apologized once [...]

Unity Technologies Responds To Developer Backlash, Promises Runtime Fee Policy Changes

September 18, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Unity Technologies has caved from the intense backlash it received following its announcement of additional runtime fees for Unity games. Last night, the company issued a statement on Twitter apologizing for the big uproar caused by the controversial announcement with a promise to make necessary changes to the policy. “We have heard you,” Unity Technologies tweeted. “We apologize for the [...]

Unity Technologies Employees Protest Runtime Fees By Leaving The Company

September 17, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Developers aren’t the only ones protesting Unity Technologies plans to add runtime fees as several of the company’s employees have decided to leave rather than be a part of its new money-making scheme. Senior Software Engineer Jono Forbes and other developers who opposed the runtime fees recently tendered their resignations after the company ignored their advice and announced the pricing [...]

Developers Remove Unity Ads In Protest Of Plans To Add Runtime Fees

September 16, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Unity Technologies’ continues to feel the backlash of its decision to charge “runtime fees” for games that run on the Unity game engine. In protest, several development studios have also decided to cut off the company’s ad revenue by turning off Unity ads in their respective games. These studios include Azur Games, Century Games, Homa, and Voodoo, among others, all [...]

Game Developers Unite Against Additional ‘Runtime Fees’ For Unity Engine

September 14, 2023 Marc Marasigan Comments

Earlier this week, Unity Technologies faced massive backlash from video game developers when it announced its plans to add “runtime fees” for the Unity game engine. Basically, the company will be charging developers a small fee for every installation of a game that uses the engine on top of the annual licensing fee. The said runtime fees could reportedly be [...]

Unity CEO Apologizes For Calling Devs Who Shy Away From Monetization As ‘F*cking Idiots’

July 19, 2022 Marc Marasigan Comments

In an interview last week, Unity CEO John Riccitiello dropped a statement criticizing developers who don’t include monetization features in their games, calling them, and I quote, “fucking idiots.” Naturally, this drew the ire of the entire gaming community and video game companies, which Riccitiello responded to by labeling the websites who reported on it, even those that published the [...]

Unity Company Lays Off Hundreds Of Employees Around The Globe

July 5, 2022 Marc Marasigan Comments

Unity game engine developer Unity Technologies has reportedly laid off hundreds of employees over the past month. According to VentureBeat, a total of 263 employees were affected by the series of layoffs as the company responds to a significant drop in revenue following Apple’s crackdown against target advertising in the past year. A big chunk of the Unity Technologies’ revenue [...]

Zenith Developer Ramen VR Stars In Unity’s New Spotlight Video Series Debut

April 2, 2022 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Unity shines the spotlight on video game development studios that that took the engine to the next level in their new The Game Changers video series. The debut episode features Ramen VR the studio behind Zenith, one of the few, if not the only, VR MMORPG made on the platform. In the video, the Ramen VR team talks about their [...]

Unity Plans To Acquire Avatar VFX Company Weta Digital

November 10, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Unity Technologies, creators of the Unity Engine, have announced their plans to acquire Weta Digital for over $1.6 billion. Weta is a New Zealand-based visual effects company that has won multiple Academy Awards for their work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong (2005), Avatar, and 2016’s The Jungle Book (2016). They’re also known for their work on [...]

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