The Wall Street Journal(opens in new tab) reports Unity has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for IronSource. It's the latest in a string of partnerships and acquisitions for Unity that include buying VFX studio Weta Digital for $1.6 billion. And yet, just two weeks ago, it laid off hundreds of employees to, as a Unity spokesperson told us, "realign some of our resources".
Yeah, that company's so dead not even the sharks are going to bother with it. Nobody's going to be making anything but shovelware with Unity going forward, and when they eventually get bought by some Chinese company, their reputation will be the same as IronSource's, with a small footnote about a once-used game engine.
Yeah, that company's so dead not even the sharks are going to bother with it. Nobody's going to be making anything but shovelware with Unity going forward, and when they eventually get bought by some Chinese company, their reputation will be the same as IronSource's, with a small footnote about a once-used game engine.