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Unity slashes 600 jobs in its latest round of layoffs
It's not been the best year to work at Unity, as the tech company has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs and office closures....
Microsoft and Unity collectively shed over 10,000 employees in latest round of tech layoffs
Another round of layoffs are coming to both Microsoft and Unity. Both tech companies are dropping more employees from their respective workforces, with Unity...
Tencent seeks larger stake in Ubisoft, Unity considers Chinese spinoff
China continues its wrangling of the western gaming industry with moves on both Ubisoft and Unity. Reuters reported yesterday that Tencent is attempting to increase...
Unity’s John Riccitiello apologizes for sentence he wishes he ‘never said’
A harsh judgment from Unity's CEO last week experienced a fair bit of pushback and criticism from gamers and other studios alike. John Riccitiello...
Unity’s CEO says game devs who don’t include monetization in their design process are ‘f*cking idiots’
Not since Square-Enix president Yosuke Matsuda's notorious letter about pursuing NFTs has someone in the games industry so spectacularly lost the plot that we're...
Unity unveils plans to merge with app monetization platform ironSource in a $4.4B deal
Unity, the engine that powers a wide number of MMORPGs as well as other games, is hoping to improve its fiscal fortunes through a...
Unity, the game engine behind many MMOs, lays off ‘hundreds’ of staff
There are not a lot of MMO players who are ever curious about what game engine powers their title (or for that matter know...
Unity shines a spotlight on RamenVR and the creation of VR MMO Zenith
Zenith, one of the very few VR MMORPGs out there, was made with the Unity engine, and the company behind the engine appears to...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord crypto mess, Unity buys Weta, Roblox Q3 2021 financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Business business business... is this working?
Discord: Well, Discord's gone and ticked off its...
Habbo Hotel is bringing back the Flash client while the developers work on the Unity version
It's been about a month since Habbo Hotel released its Unity client, a move that basically no one in the community seemed to be all...
Habbo’s release on Unity draws player ire for feature implementation, prompting a response from the devs
The move from Flash to Unity for Habbo Hotel has happened successfully, but only in terms of it officially releasing, as players have been...
Habbo Hotel’s move from Flash to Unity officially enters open beta
When last we checked in on Habbo Hotel, it was mostly pointing to its winter event while also nodding in the direction of an...
Roblox goes public on the stock market with an IPO filing, confirms it’s operating at a loss
The massively popular online game-building game Roblox is going to toss its hat into the stock market ring. The company has officially filed an...
Cryptocurrency-monetized sandbox MMO Ember Sword gets $700K in funding, opens pre-registration
Anyone here remember Ember Sword? It's an upcoming sandbox MMORPG that touts a number of the usual features like PvE and PvP and one...
Realm of the Mad God’s remastered Unity edition, Exalt, is now in open beta
Realm of the Mad God is one of those MMOs that are hard to quantify, being part retro-pixel shooter and part permadeath MMO in...
Coronavirus fears knock out more PAX East exhibitors, but GDC will go on as planned
Hi-Rez Studios and That Game Company have become the latest game studios to back out of PAX East 2020, which begins today.
"After some internal...
Zenith is a new SpatialOS cyberpunk VR MMORPG – and its Kickstarter just went live
Here's something new for fans of gaming with a headset: Zenith, a VR MMO in development right now from Ramen VR, aiming to provide...
Persistent world VR MMO Neon Exile is slated for Steam early access this summer
So here's a brand-new MMO we'd never heard of until today, thanks to its feature on the SpatialOS blog: It's called Neon Exile, and...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
Indie sandbox El Somni Quas answers Q&A, features Rogues Guild and Sparrow Port
It's been a while since we checked in with El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima...
