Engines and tools

The company Unity is being targeted for acquisition. According to sources from Reuters, a consortium of investors, including the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Silver Lake, has shown interest.

Unity reported its most robust third-quarter performance to date, fueled by a 126% year-on-year increase in its AI-driven ad network Vector.

According to reports, Unity has entered into discussions regarding a possible acquisition with private equity company Silver Lake as well as Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). Both entities completed the acquisition of Electronic Arts earlier this year for $55 billion.

Six years ago, Unity held its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, it struggled to achieve quarterly profitability for quite some time until the situation turned around between July and September 2026

Unity is being targeted for acquisition. According to Reuters sources, a consortium of investors is interested in the company, which includes the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Silver Lake

The French union STJV has criticized Microsoft, claiming that the corporation itself created financial problems for Arkane Lyon.

The release of Phantom Blade Zero is an opportunity not only to analyze the impressive metrics of the new Chinese blockbuster but also to discuss the two decades that led up to this project. Through RPG Maker, mobile, investments from Tencent, financial discipline, and creative compromises

Studio Atelico has introduced its Atelico AI Engine to Early Access.

Epic Games plans to amend the Unreal Engine license agreement to lift restrictions on AI training using materials created with the engine and MetaHuman technology. This was announced by the company's CEO, Tim Sweeney. However, game developers will be able to independently decide whether to permit such use of their content.

Users of Claude Opus 5.5 have started complaining that the service is increasingly refusing to perform tasks related to reverse engineering of software and games. The first such complaints appeared on October 21

The developers of GameMaker announced a change in the engine's licensing model.

The 2D-focused engine GameMaker will offer its "next-generation runtime" GMRT for free commercial use starting January 1, 2027

The founder of Liquid Swords, Christofer Sundberg, confirmed the closure of the studio that released the action game Samson. Despite the company's bankruptcy, he does not plan to leave the gaming industry and is already considering forming a new team

Dean Hall, a seasoned professional in the industry, has introduced Brutal, an open-source game development framework. This initiative is a joint effort by his two companies, Ahwoo and RocketWerkz.

Rockstar Games has significantly increased its staff to work on Grand Theft Auto 6 and is committed to ensuring that its subsequent release will not require another eight years to develop

The Defold Foundation announced the release of a new version of the open-source Defold engine, numbered 1.14.0. The main innovation is the addition of XBOX support

Epic Games has now adopted an AI-first approach, focusing on artificial intelligence technologies.

Google Corporation has decided to compete with Roblox. It announced Playground — a browser-based platform that allows making games using prompts.

Google Corporation has decided to compete with Roblox. It announced Playground — a browser-based platform that allows for the creation of games using prompts.

Capcom has revealed a multi-step initiative aimed at transforming its in-house RE Engine into an "AI-generation engine" to enhance development efficiency and improve overall performance levels

A California court will not require Unity to temporarily restrict the operation of the Ad Quality SDK tool in AppLovin's products. This request was previously made by AppLovin itself.

A conflict has erupted between AppLovin and Unity

Meta has introduced two artificial intelligence-driven gaming tools designed to enable users to create 2D and 3D games through prompts on both mobile devices and web browsers.

Games developed for the Engine platform have become available to third-party operators. This was announced by Stake co-founder Ed Craven on the social network X

Nvidia has completed the acquisition of the AI platform Hugging Face, valuing the deal at $12.9 billion

Apple is dealing with a £2 billion class action lawsuit concerning its introduction of the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework

Continuing our weekly series of YouTube interviews, this episode's guest is Natalya Popova, a project manager at Overmobile

Good news for Godot game developers. W4 Games, a company dedicated to strengthening the ecosystem around the engine, has raised $18 million in investments.

Good news for game developers using Godot. W4 Games, a company focused on strengthening the ecosystem around the engine, has raised $18 million in investments

Roblox has decided to make three of its AI safety models available as open-source through the Robust Open Online Safety Tools Model Community (ROOST)

Tripledot Studios has purchased mobile publisher Supersonic from Unity in a $40 million deal.

Matt Bromberg, CEO of Unity, characterized the company's most recent financial performance as marking the "best quarter in its history as a public company."

Supersonic is no longer owned by Unity; its new owner is Tripledot Studios.

Unity released its financial report for the second quarter of 2026. According to its CEO Matthew Bromberg, the company achieved its highest metrics since its debut on the stock market in 2020.

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Unity has decided to add special support for Netflix's gaming ecosystem to its engine.

Unity has introduced specialized engine support tailored for Netflix platforms, facilitating a smoother process for developers aiming to release titles within the streaming service's ecosystem.

American high school student Giulio Greco launched ForgeGUI at the beginning of the year—a platform with AI-based tools that help developers create games faster. He has now successfully conducted a major funding round

Last week, the popular annual GMTK Game Jam took place. Traditionally, the organizers asked the participants which engines they used for creating their projects. It turned out that, for the first time, the most frequently chosen was Godot.

Last week, the popular annual game development marathon, GMTK Game Jam, took place. As is tradition, the organizers asked participants which engines they used for their projects. It turned out that, for the first time, Godot was the most preferred choice.

The production of the new Fable has turned out to be more expensive than Playground Games and Microsoft initially anticipated. This was reported by Windows Central journalist Jez Corden, citing his sources.

The All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities will soon be updated with 27 new codes. One of these codes will be specifically designated for studios engaged in video game development.

In early May, the new head of XBOX, Asha Sharma, made some leadership changes in the gaming division and invited former colleagues from CoreAI to join the team. One of them was Jared Palmer. However, it turned out that he decided not to stay long in the position of XBOX Vice President of Development

At a conference in South Korea, Unity introduced the next version of its namesake engine—version 7.

The beta testing phase for Unity 7 is set to begin in December 2026, with the complete launch expected in the first quarter of 2027.

Roblox Corporation continues to integrate artificial intelligence into its eponymous platform. It has announced a tool called Build, capable of generating game prototypes based on their descriptions

Creating console and PC games with built-in advertising from the start can significantly simplify future work, claims Alexander Dao, Vice President of Advertising and Sponsorship at Electronic Arts (EA)

Information continues to emerge about the situation at id Software in light of the XBOX restructuring. Among other things, it has become known that the layoffs at the studio were far more extensive than initially anticipated.

Information continues to surface about the situation at id Software in light of the XBOX restructuring. Among other things, it has become known that the layoffs at the studio were far more extensive than initially anticipated

In recent weeks, developers have actively shared the source codes of their projects. Now, Smartly Dressed Games has joined the list by publishing the code of the zombie sandbox game Unturned on GitHub.