acquisition

Unity acquires Pixyz Software

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Insydium buys Terraform4D

Promising art-directable Cinema 4D terrain-generation plugin was just five months old when the X-Particles creators snapped it up.

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021

Epic Games buys ArtStation

Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

Maxon acquires forger

Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Unity Technologies files for IPO

Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020

Unity acquires Artomatix

AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

Adobe acquires Medium

Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'.

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019