Today's News:
* Both Nintendo and Sony will be holding a new Nintendo Direct and State of Play episodes tomorrow. In regards to Nintendo, their upcoming episode will be focusing on Switch games releasing this winter and will be around 40 minutes in length. In regards to Sony, their upcoming episode will be focusing on previously announced games for PS5 and PSVR2
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYfuAOKTxA ,
https://blog.playstation.com/2023/09...arty-releases/
* Unity Technologies is currently dealing with serious online backlash following their recent announcement of upcoming changes to their fees system for developers who use their Unity engine for games. The source of the backlash revolves around a planned new change to their pricing system that will now charge a fee to developers and digital store and game streaming providers on a per game install past a certain threshold and Unity initially confirming that this would mean developers could be charged multiple times for the same game download purchase and even demos if a game was installed and uninstalled multiple times. Adding to the backlash was Unity stating that this new pricing system would be retroactive for game downloads and not just for those post January 2024 and removing several features from Unity and Unity subs for developers. Following the backlash, Unity recently backtracked some of their planned changes with demo downloads to no longer be counted towards fees as long as they are attached to a paid full game and removing the ability for developers to be charged multiple times from a single game download.
Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/unity-ru...aws-heat-news/ ,
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/uni...y-marc-whitten
* In an official statement to Bloomberg, an EA rep stated that longtime game director Stig Asmussen recently left the company and the official reason due to him wanting to go in a new direction for his career. During his time in EA, Asmussen was the game director for several notable games including the Star Wars Jedi series.
Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/star-war...is-leaving-ea/ ,
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...leaves-company