# Industry News Rundown — Index Daily briefings on animation, game design, motion graphics, special effects/VFX, and virtual production. Generated by the Perplexity automation "Daily industry news rundown" (8:00 AM CT, daily). ## November 2026 - **Nov 4 (Wed)** — [[2026-11-04 Industry News Rundown|UE6 drops Blueprints/Actors for Verse; EA closes BioWare; 2026 layoffs pass 2025 total; Sony XYN Gaussian splatting opens to creators]] - **Nov 5 (Thu)** — [[2026-11-05 Industry News Rundown|UE 5.9 announced with MCP scene editing and web target; Unity + Google Spark; Autodesk Mudbox EOL and MotionMaker]] - **Nov 6 (Fri)** — [[2026-11-06 Industry News Rundown|Unity's first GAAP profit (AI ad network); Weta "no AI strategy, don't bother"; SAG-AFTRA pre-funding game deal; AI content floods game stores]] - **Nov 7 (Sat)** — [[2026-11-07 Industry News Rundown|Unity in acquisition talks (Silver Lake/PIF); Chomet's "automated interpolation" defense; GTA 6 pre-orders near 8M]] - **Nov 8 (Sun)** — [[2026-11-08 Industry News Rundown|Chomet/Dior saga deepens; V-Ray MCP connects ChatGPT/Claude to scenes; Switch 2 profit drop; Disney Accelerator Demo Day]] - **Nov 9 (Mon)** — [[2026-11-09 Industry News Rundown|Epic UE6 migration path and productivity numbers; Tippett Studio closes; Like A Photon 7-film slate; UE 5.9 preview previewed]] - **Nov 10 (Tue)** — [[2026-11-10 Industry News Rundown|UE 5.9 MegaJam Preview ships (first agent-built engine release); Disney–Adobe AI sketch-to-concept partnership; Bandai Namco/Skydance/Tripwire layoffs; Take-Two Q2]] - **Nov 11 (Wed)** — [[2026-11-11 Industry News Rundown|Xbox consolidates studios and lays off 450; PlayStation cancels Fairgames; Pixar leadership transition; GTA 6 most pre-ordered ever]] - **Nov 12 (Thu)** — [[2026-11-12 Industry News Rundown|GTA 6 pre-orders near 9.7M; David Ellison makes AI a boardroom mandate; Fortis Games shuts down; Unity lays out AI stack and Unity 7 roadmap]] ## How these notes are made Each note is the full text of that day's briefing as delivered in the automation thread, with YAML frontmatter for date and topic tags. Source links are inline within each note.