Sources of The Wall Street Journal report that Unity is making new cuts. She decided to lay off 8% of the employees, or about 600 people.

Not a day without news about AI. This time the info guide is from Unity. The company is working on an AI ecosystem that will “put AI game development tools in the hands of millions of creators.”

On March 15, Unity published a study on the main trends in game development for the beginning of 2023. We wrote briefly about the report last week. In the current publication — in detail about him in Russian.

Last year, independent Kazakh studios made games more actively than indie developers in any other countries. The number of new games from indie studios in Kazakhstan increased by 115.7% compared to 2021. This was reported by Unity in a recent report on the gaming industry.

Unity is also making cuts. She announced that she would lay off 284 people.

Unity told about this in a recent report on the financial results for July-September 2022.

Unity and ironSource have officially become one company. This was announced in the official blog by the head of Unity, John Riccitiello.

The head of Unity gave a great interview GamesIndustry.biz . Among other things, John Riccitiello said that he thinks about the sharp drop in the value of the company’s shares — they have fallen in price by 84% since the peak last November.

Unity has released a large report on multiplayer games. As part of the study, she interviewed 1,500 people from the United States, Great Britain, Japan and South Korea.

On October 13, corporate tariffs for using Unity will increase. According to the company, it “has not raised prices for almost three years.” The developers are not thrilled.

The company’s management stated that it would be better for shareholders and other stakeholders if AppLovin remained independent. Therefore, it will not send Unity an updated merger proposal.

Unity and Yale University asked the opinion of 2034 gamers from the United States about global warming. The overwhelming majority replied that they were worried about climate change and wanted gaming companies to fight it too.

ironSource has set a date for shareholders to vote on the merger with Unity — October 3. This and the proposal to vote “for” became known from documents filed with the SEC.

By the time the exchange closed on August 15, the value of Unity shares had fallen to $54.3 per share. This is how investors reacted to the rejection of the company’s board of directors from the deal with AppLovin.

It seems that the deal between Unity and AppLovin will not take place. Unity’s board of directors unanimously decided that the sale of the company “does not meet the interests of shareholders” and advised the shareholder himself to vote against the merger.

As part of the deal, Unity will work together with CACI International to develop human-machine interfaces. The company’s management noted that the deal is of a strategic nature — Unity hopes that in the future its engine will be used more often for projects of the US government.

Unity summed up the results of the second quarter of 2022. The developers of the engine again reported an increase in net losses, but their revenue also increased.

We are talking about a cashless transaction. If it takes place, then there will be an exchange of shares.

The companies hope that thanks to their cooperation, it will become easier for developers to release games on PC and Xbox consoles. In particular, Unity plans to move some more of its tools to the cloud.