john riccitiello Archives - Developer Tech News https://www.developer-tech.com/news/tag/john-riccitiello/ Gaming, Apps, HTML5, Java, PHP, C#, .net, IOT Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:56:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.developer-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/dev-icon-60x60.png john riccitiello Archives - Developer Tech News https://www.developer-tech.com/news/tag/john-riccitiello/ 32 32 Unity CEO John Riccitiello ‘retires’ following controversies https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/oct/10/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-retires-following-controversies/ https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/oct/10/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-retires-following-controversies/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:56:38 +0000 https://www.developer-tech.com/?p=45208 Unity CEO John Riccitiello has “retired” amid controversies that have plagued the company under his watch.  “It’s been a privilege to lead Unity for nearly a decade and serve our employees, customers, developers and partners, all of whom have been instrumental to the company’s growth,” said Riccitiello. “I look forward to supporting Unity through this... Read more »

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]]> https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/oct/10/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-retires-following-controversies/feed/ 0 Unity receives ‘credible death threat’ amid per-install fee backlash https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/sep/15/unity-receives-death-threat-per-install-fee-backlash/ https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/sep/15/unity-receives-death-threat-per-install-fee-backlash/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:14:47 +0000 https://www.developer-tech.com/?p=45137 Unity has been forced to close two of its offices and cancel a town hall meeting following a “credible death threat”. The unacceptable threat came on the heels of an announcement regarding a new per-install fee for developers using the Unity video game engine. Just two days ago, Unity created widespread backlash across the gaming... Read more »

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]]> https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2023/sep/15/unity-receives-death-threat-per-install-fee-backlash/feed/ 0 Unity rejects AppLovin’s bumper takeover bid https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/aug/16/unity-rejects-applovin-bumper-takeover-bid/ https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/aug/16/unity-rejects-applovin-bumper-takeover-bid/#respond Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:55:09 +0000 https://www.developer-tech.com/?p=43724 Game development platform Unity has rejected a large takeover bid from mobile technology firm AppLovin. AppLovin offered to acquire Unity in an all-stock deal worth $17.5 billion. However, the offer came with the stipulation that Unity drops its own bid for ironSource. IronSource and AppLovin both offer services to help developers grow and monetise their... Read more »

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]]> https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/aug/16/unity-rejects-applovin-bumper-takeover-bid/feed/ 0 Unity CEO apologises for calling some game devs ‘the biggest fucking idiots’ https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/jul/19/unity-ceo-apologises-for-calling-some-game-devs-the-biggest-fucking-idiots/ https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/jul/19/unity-ceo-apologises-for-calling-some-game-devs-the-biggest-fucking-idiots/#respond Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:14:35 +0000 https://www.developer-tech.com/?p=43645 Unity CEO John Riccitiello has apologised for a recent interview in which he called some game developers “the biggest fucking idiots”. Pocket Gamer was interviewing Riccitiello about the game development platform’s merger with monetisation and distribution specialists ironSource when he made the comment. Here’s the part of the interview in question (emphasis ours): Pocket Gamer:... Read more »

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