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Unity rejects AppLovin’s $17.5b takeover offerThe game engine company’s merger with ironSource is going ahead
The game engine company’s merger with ironSource is going ahead
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Unityannouncedtheir intention to merge with ironSource in a $4.4 billion (£3.7 billion) in early July. The merger was seen as acontroversial moveamong indie developers due to mass layoffs at Unity in June. ironSource is also known in the games development community for developing amalware installerin 2015.
The news of ironSource merging with Unity prompted rival mobile gaming tech company AppLovin to table their own unsolicited offer to Unity in an attempt to stop it. That doesn’t seem to have gone down very well with Unity’s board. The board said that AppLovin’s offer didn’t result in a “superior proposal” as defined in Unity’s deal with ironSource, which could have put paid to that merger.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Unity John Riccitiello said: “The Board continues to believe that the ironSource transaction is compelling and will deliver an opportunity to generate long-term value through the creation of a unique end-to-end platform that allows creators to develop, publish, run, monetize, and grow live games and real-time 3D content seamlessly.”
During an interview with PocketGamer following the ironSource merger’s announcement, Riccitiellocommentedthat developers who failed to plan to monetise when creating their games were “some of the biggest fucking idiots”. This also caused just a bit ofcontroversy. Riccitiello subsequentlytweetedan apology.
