Engines and tools

Over the past six months, Machine Zone has gone through several waves of layoffs. As a result, as of today, the studio has been left with only a "minimally necessary team," which is engaged in supporting Game of War and Mobile Strike.

Unity has announced its financial results for the first quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, revealing a decline in revenue of 8% in its Create Solutions segment and 4% in its Grow Solutions segment.

Unity has revealed the recipients of its 2025 Unity for Humanity Grant, honoring the achievements of ten developers from across nine different countries

The open-source engine Godot will receive support for yet another platform. Apple has begun working on integrating support for the visionOS operating system, which is the foundation of the Apple Vision Pro AR headset.

Recently, the announcement of DreadMoor took place, an adventure game about fishing in a post-apocalyptic world with nods to the indie hit Dredge. The editorial team of App2Top spoke with Rostislav Fedorov, CEO and co-founder of the Russian studio Dream Dock Games, which is developing the game, about the team, the project, visions, and budgets

Unity 6 has been withdrawn from the Chinese market

In February 2025, Chinese developers began reporting issues accessing Unity 6. It was recently revealed that the company that created the engine has indeed pulled it from sale in China

Ubisoft has unveiled Chroma, an open-source tool designed to apply color blindness filters to in-game content in real time. This tool aids developers in customizing games for players with color vision deficiencies.

We rarely write about announcements. However, we couldn't ignore this one for several reasons

At the end of March, CarX Technologies announced CarX Drift Racing Online 2, and recently, a page for it appeared on Steam. App2Top spoke with Vladimir Berezhny, the project manager, about how long the game has been in development and how many wishlists the team aims to collect by the release.

Unity has committed to providing "official support for Nintendo Switch 2" to assist game developers.

In 2023, Unity found itself at the center of a scandal over the monetization of its engine by introducing a Runtime Fee for game installations, which greatly displeased developers. In an interview with The Verge, the company's CEO, Matthew Bromberg, stated that Unity's actions at the time sparked a true war between the company and its clients

On Monday, March 3rd, Astrum Entertainment introduced the beta version of its own launcher — Astrum Play. The company positions it as a proprietary gaming platform. App2Top spoke with Sergey Efremov, the Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment, about the reasons for the launch of the service and its immediate future.

The developers of Godot have released a new version of their engine, numbered 4.4. Eight months have passed since the release of the previous version, 4.3

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

Unity has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year, reporting a decline in fourth-quarter revenue that surpassed its prior guidance range of $422 million to $427 million.

The Nau Engine team announced that they are shifting to a "community-driven approach" in the development of the engine. Now, the developer community will start deciding what Nau Engine should be like

The Marvel Rivals team has lost several developers. The Chinese giant NetEase conducted layoffs at the studio in Seattle, dismissing all employees working on the game.

According to the 80 Level portal, Unity has experienced a wave of layoffs. This affected both the technical and advertising departments.

According to reports, Unity has initiated another series of layoffs

We continue summarizing the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Elena Morina, the CEO and founder of the publishing company Ravenage

Studio Atelico, a gaming startup, has unveiled a new AI engine designed to enable game developers to create experiences driven by generative AI that function on devices without relying on costly cloud services.

We continue to review the results of 2024 together with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and related sectors). Up next is an interview with Alexandra Kurdumova and Alina Davletshina from Futura Digital (their channel on Telegram)

UNIGINE has released a new version of its engine — 2.19.1. It has been four months since the last update to version 2.19

We wrote about the bill in detail this morning; however, it's worth noting that the published final version is essentially the same as the one received by the editorial team the day before. But there is a nuance

We continue to wrap up 2024 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams. Next up is an interview with Balancy, a company specializing in LiveOps. We spoke with the CEO and CTO, Pavel Ignatov and Andrey Apanasik.

Gaijin Entertainment released a video comparing the capabilities of the Dagor Engine with Unreal Engine 5. The company's conclusion is that its engine is in no way inferior to the giant from Epic Games.

Today, the open beta test for the domestic game engine Nau Engine has started.

EA's Chief Operating Officer Arjun Balaram shared the key principles that help the company maintain user interest in its game services.

At the end of last week, the GameMaker team celebrated the engine's 25th birthday: its first version was released on November 15, 1999

Tomas Sala, the creator of the building simulator Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles, shared his solo development experience and offered advice to fellow developers on Thomas Brush's podcast

Matthew Bromberg, the CEO of Unity, has spoken about the runtime fee controversy and shed light on why it took the company a year to change its stance.

Unity has announced that Jarrod Yahes will serve as its new chief financial officer, alongside the release of its quarterly earnings report.

Unity has announced its financial performance for the three-month period concluding on September 30, 2024, stating that its third-quarter outcomes "surpassed guidance."

In the gaming sector, Netflix is once again shifting its priorities: the company is now focusing on developing games using generative AI. The creation of a new division, GenAI for Games, was announced by its vice president, Mike Verdu, who previously led Netflix Games.

In its gaming division, Netflix is once again shifting priorities: the company will now focus on developing games using generative AI. The creation of the new GenAI for Games unit was announced by its vice president, Mike Verdu, who previously led Netflix Games

The founder of Facepunch Studios, Garry Newman, criticized the size of the annual fees his studio has to pay Unity

Unity has revealed that Alex Blum has been appointed as the chief operating officer.

Unity has revealed the selection of Steve Collins as its new Chief Technology Officer

A developer known by the nickname Henrique Henrique has released an open-source project called Hengo. This solution allows users to work with Godot without knowing GDScript by creating flowchart chains.

Unity has just released a new version of its engine, offering new features and improvements. Its new head is also serious about getting the company back on track and restoring its damaged reputation.

Company Unity has officially released the sixth version of its engine—nine and a half years after the launch of Unity 5. Let's discuss some of the new features.

Unity 6 has been launched for mobile, PC, console, and additional platforms, including extended reality.

Pokémon developer Game Freak has been hacked, resulting in a massive leak of various data. This includes personal information and internal files relating to both existing and unannounced games.

At the Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, a representative from Game Science studio revealed the production budget for Black Myth: Wukong. According to him, more than 300 million yuan ($42.4 million) was spent on creating the game.

343 Industries has suddenly rebranded. The studio not only changed its name, but also revised its approach to making new games based on the Halo franchise.

Microsoft has unveiled significant alterations at 343 Industries, the team responsible for developing the Halo series. These changes include a rebranding of the studio, the introduction of a new game engine, and the commencement of development on several new installments in its renowned shooter franchise.

Another piece of news from the Unreal Fest 2024 presentation is that Epic Games announced the release of the early version of Unreal Engine 5.5. It is already available for trial.

Epic Games has announced the Launch Everywhere with Epic program. It is aimed at developers who are creating games using the Unreal Engine.

Epic Games plans to reduce its Unreal Engine royalty fees from 5% to 3.5% for developers who launch eligible Unreal games on the Epic Games Store either before or concurrently with other platforms