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A free Unity?

Short answer: yes! Long answer: read on :) At the Unite 2009 conference we just announced that Unity Indie would be discontinued and that a new version of Unity (called just “Unity”) would be made...

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Top 5 Game Company 2009

What a wonderful Christmas present! So, 2009 has been an amazing year. I won’t list out all our achievements, but they’ve been many, and some big enough that achieving just one of them would have made...

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2010 Trends

2010 Trends – Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason We’re living in exciting times, and in some ways we here at Unity Technologies are in a unique position to be part of them. Here are the trends that...

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Unity 3 coming soon!

In the Unite 2009 conference keynote we promised you that Unity would be picking up speed, and it has: Unity has become a powerhouse in the game industry and beyond. Nobody else is as active in...

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Unity and the iPhone OS 4.0

Hey guys, I just wanted to thank our forum users for their support and thoughtful analyses about Apple’s new ToS (terms of service) for its iPhone OS 4.0, due to be released this summer.  As you are...

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Unity and the iPhone OS 4.0, update

Dear Unity developers, I wanted to take a moment today to follow up on my blog post last Friday regarding the recent controversial changes in the the iPhone OS 4.0 beta ToS. The news about this change...

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Unity and the iPhone OS 4.0, update II

Dear Unity developers. First I want to thank all of you who have expressed support for us in the past weeks. While we can’t yet say exactly how the ToS 3.3.1 will play out, Unity is very different from...

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Unity and iOS 4.0, update III

Dear community, once again I’d like to start by offering my thanks to everyone for their patience through an unclear situation. We’re grateful for the dedication and commitment many of you have shown...

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Unity and iOS (solved!)

Dear community! It’s been 5 months since Apple announced the new iOS 4.0 Terms of Service which seemed like they might block out Unity (as well as similar technologies) from their AppStore. We...

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Unity 3 “pre order” rebate extended by 24 hours!

Dear developers, customers, friends. As you can see, we released Unity 3 to the world today. It’s a an incredibly awesome release: both in and by itself, but also in what it means in terms of our broad...

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Frontline Awards nomination (and voting)

Dear  community, developers, friends. Yet another wonderful thing has befallen us – Unity has been nominated for the Game Developer’s 2010 Frontline Awards in the category “Best Engine”. We were a...

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Unite 2010 is upon us!

Every year Unite is the event that the whole growing company looks forwards to, crunches to make awesome, and finally gathers at – this is literally the only time every year that brings together...

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Unite 2010 – day 1

Dear community, friends, and Unite participants. We were off to a fantastic start of Unite yesterday! We sold out with 650 participants – nearly double the size of last year’s conference but were able...

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Unite 2010 recap

Unite 2010 was incredible – undeniably the best Unite ever… but then every one of them has had that honor! :) We had visitors from as far as India, Israel, Uruguay and Australia – a total of 22...

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Unity 4 is out!

Ahem. I’m really happy to tell you all that Unity 4 is officially released. We have been hard at work putting the final touches on this first release in the Unity 4 cycle, and we’re extremely happy...

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Unity and Gambling

Unity is a game engine. Right? We’ve always worked on one big goal: making Unity the best game technology in the world and making it available to as many developers as possible. That’s why we work so...

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This is big: Unity coming to Sony consoles this year

Dear Unity developers, community, friends. In our tireless march towards world domination (okay, perhaps merely game industry domination), we’re proud to announce that we’ve just entered into a...

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Sunsetting Flash

Just like you guys, we sometimes have to make difficult decisions about which platforms to target. For us, doing so often involves speculating about what the fast-changing gaming environment will look...

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Vitalise your game development at Unite Nordic

This May 21 – 22, we’re throwing the first Unite Nordic, a regional Unity developers’ conference in Malmo, Sweden. It’s an event we’re particularly excited about because it’s targeted right at Unity’s...

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Putting the power of Unity in the hands of every mobile developer

Our simply big idea has always been to make game development accessible to more people with better tools. To help developers fulfil their creative vision and build their businesses. Simple to say,...

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What happened at the Build conference?

So, did we mention that we’re really serious about multiplatform development? We want to provide the best engine in the world, and an important dimension to that is opening up as many avenues as...

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Another million Unity developers in the house

Just over a year ago there were a million Unity enthusiasts around the world. As of June 22 this year, there are now 2 million of you. Holy cow! And, to all our new users: welcome. Getting to a million...

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Big Xbox One News for Unity Developers

We have good  news to share with you today! Unity and Microsoft have reached an agreement that will open Xbox One even farther to developers using Unity. Unity and Microsoft will now be working...

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Breaking news: welcoming Everyplay and GameAds to the Unity family!

Our goals haven’t changed since we started out a decade ago: we want to provide our global community of developers with the same tools and technology previously only enjoyed by publishers with massive...

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Unity 5!

Today, at the biggest show in the game development industry, we threw the veil off of Unity 5 and announced that it’s coming this year! This release is about combining all perspectives of game...

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GDC 2014 Wrap-up

Wow! What an incredible conference GDC was this year! Our booth was awesome, incredibly busy, and full of amazing friends and partners demonstrating how talented the wide Unity community is. But while...

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Welcome Playnomics to the Unity Family!

More exciting news for you today! We’re incredibly proud of our engine and development tools. We’re so pleased with where they are and where they’re going, that it would be easy to sit back and be...

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Great News for PlayStation Developers!

(Edit: There have been a few questions about the Pro nature of these tools. To clarify, it is not necessary to own Unity Pro to take advantage of Unity Pro for PlayStation. As a licensed PlayStation...

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Expanded Oculus Rift Support in Unity

More awesome news today as Brendan Iribe, during his Oculus Connect conference keynote, announced that our two companies have extended our partnership in order to ensure that Unity is available for all...

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Leading Unity into the Future

Hello everyone! As you all know, we’ve been making some big moves at Unity lately. We’ve partnered with some amazing companies and begun putting a lot more energy and resources into developing...

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