Unity Technologies has acquired free voice chat platform Vivox.
Unity Technologies has acquired free voice chat platform Vivox.
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Unity plays the acquisition game with chat service Vivox

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies, the maker of the Unity game engine, announced it has acquired Vivox, the provider of cross-platform voice and text communication tools for games.

The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but the deal shows that rivals Epic Games and Unity are in a race to acquire companies that can beef up their platforms for game developers. Last week, Epic, the maker of Fortnite and the creator of the Unreal game engine, acquired two companies in day. Sometimes that competition turns hot, as it did with the dispute between Unity and cloud game platform Improbable.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.