A year later, Unity cancels its controversial Runtime Fee "effective immediately"
A year after it was announced, Unity's highly controversial Runtime Fee has been canceled "effective immediately."
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Unity has cancelled its controversial Runtime Fee
Unity has announced that it has scrapped its controversial Runtime Fee.
PlayStation 5 Pro Is a Low Volume Product Meant for Existing Users; Analysts Expect It to Sell as Much as the PS4 Pro, Despite High Price
The PlayStation 5 Pro's high price raised quite a few eyebrows when it was revealed at the end of yesterday's technical presentation, but players may need to look at things differently to understand the system's pricing.
Former Sony prez says thousands of laid-off devs can just 'go to the beach for a year' and don't blame greedy execs: 'Things jump out in front of you and you deal with them just like any game. So get over it!'
It's been an awful couple of years to work in the games industry. More and more, developers are living at the point of a knife, as studios big and small make cut after cut after cut with the usual blather about streamlining and resets and delivering value for shareholders. At the beginning of this year, 16,000 devs had lost their jobs, and that number has only climbed as companies like Bungie, Rocksteady, and countless others have laid off hundreds of staff.
NYT Crossword: answers for Tuesday, September 10
The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging rights if you manage to finish it every day.
'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA
Ever since it bought GPU firm ATI Technologies in 2006, AMD has experimented with all kinds of graphics architectures. Its current approach, one for PC clients and the other for data and AI servers, will be swapped in favour of a completely unified architecture, bringing the best of both systems into one developer-friendly architecture.
Astro Bot director wanted to fill a gap missing since PlayStation Studios "went from making cartoon games" to "mature, hyper-realistic games"
Astro Bot developer Team Asobi wanted to fill a gap in PlayStation's portfolio that went missing when some of its studios pivoted to "mature, hyper-realistic games."
A Hogwarts Legacy sequel is one of Warner Bros' 'biggest priorities'
At the start of 2024, Warner Bros. went on its own little victory lap over the success of Hogwarts Legacy. WB Interactive Entertainment president David Hassad announced in early January the game had sold over 22 million copies in 2023, more than 2 million of those in the festive period, boasting that this made it «the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide.»