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.

In a recent report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Unity announced plans to conduct a record round of layoffs. She decided to lay off a quarter of the staff, or about 1,800 people.

Unity has announced new large-scale cuts. This time the reason was the termination of cooperation with Weta FX, a special effects studio directed by Peter Jackson. A total of 256 people or 3.8% of the total number of Unity employees will remain unemployed.

During the Unite 2023 conference, Unity announced Unity 6, the next version of its engine. With it, developers, among other things, will get early access to tools based on Unity Muse and Unity Sentis artificial intelligence.

Unity has summed up the financial results of the third quarter of 2023. She said that compared to last year, her revenue increased by 69%. The growth could have been even greater, but in September, after widespread criticism of the new pricing policy of the engine, its revenues decreased slightly.