In 2023, Unity found itself at the center of a monetization scandal involving its engine: it introduced a Runtime Fee for game installations, which developers strongly disliked. In an interview with The Verge, the company’s CEO, Matthew Bromberg, stated that Unity’s actions at the time triggered a genuine war between the company and its clients.

In 2024, the company Unity conducted the largest layoffs in its history, parting with 25% of its employees as part of a restructuring. In a recent report for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it disclosed the costs incurred due to this action.

The company Unity has undergone a wave of layoffs, reports the portal 80 Level. According to its information, this affected both the technical and advertising departments.

In recent years, the share of games on proprietary engines in Steam has significantly decreased, according to data from the analytics service VG Insights. In 2012, they were used in 71% of the new releases on the platform, but by 2024, this figure had dropped to just 13%.

Founder of Facepunch Studios, Garry Newman, criticized the annual fees his studio must pay Unity.

The company Unity has officially released the sixth version of its engine—nine and a half years after the launch of Unity 5. Here we discuss some of the new features.

Unity investors reacted positively to the company’s decision to cancel the Runtime Fee for game developers. By the market close on September 12, Unity’s share price had risen by 9.81% to $18.91 per share.

This announcement was made by the company’s CEO and President, Matthew Bromberg. The change has already taken effect.

In 2023, Unity made an unfortunate update to its pricing policy, leading some developers to abandon this engine. Specifically, some teams switched to Godot. In a conversation with Game Developer, leaders of the Godot Foundation admitted that they did not consider the sudden influx of users to be beneficial for Godot and wished Unity could persuade developers not to leave.

In mid-August, the GMTK Game Jam 2024 marathon took place, where 7,711 teams participated. It was revealed that nearly half of the participants are still developing games on Unity, but the share of projects using this engine is rapidly decreasing.

Another top manager at Unity has decided to leave the company. This time, it is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Carol Carpenter.

In 2024, gaming companies are downsizing much more aggressively than a year ago. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, 10,425 specialists were laid off in the industry from January to May. This is just 41 people fewer than for all of 2023.

Marc Whitten is preparing to leave Unity. The company announced this in a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Unity continues to improve its engine. She released a preview version of Unity 6 with accelerated rendering, artificial intelligence-based tools and various optimizations for multiplayer games.

Unity has found a successor to John Riccitiello, who left the post of CEO in the fall of 2023 after a scandal with an updated pricing policy. She announced that from May 15, 2024, this position will be held by Matthew Bromberg.

Ziva Dynamics is a company that deals with technologies of complex modeling and deformation in real time. Her tools are used to create realistic 3D models of people, animals and other creatures. The other day, Unity, the company that owns Ziva Dynamics, decided to abandon their support.

The giant 2024 Unity Gaming Report has been released. It is dedicated to trends in game development. If possible, we will briefly tell you about the main thing from the study.

Unity has published a financial report for the fourth quarter of 2023 and immediately for the whole year. She reported on revenue growth, and also shared new details about the process of “rebooting” the company.

All six ironSource founders will leave Unity within the next six months. This is reported by the Mobilegamer portal, which has read the letter from Jim Whitehurst, interim CEO of Unity, sent to the company’s employees.