Unity, maker of the favored Unity Sport Engine, has filed to go public at an unbelievable second in time. Its chief rival, Epic Video games, is at present busy arguing that Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, and Epic will seem in court docket this very afternoon to demand a restraining order so Apple can’t lower off entry to builders.

What’s extra unbelievable, although: the numbers revealed in Unity’s new S-1 submitting present the corporate is way extra of a formidable rival to Epic than we thought.

We knew the early surge of curiosity in Unity could have compelled Epic’s hand, first when Epic drastically dropped the worth of Unreal Engine in 2014, and in 2015 when it began letting builders construct with Unreal without spending a dime.

However regardless of these strikes, Unity says…

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