Pg Connects London
Pocket Gamer Connects London: what to look out for on day one
Choice panels including Amazon Web Services, Facebook Gaming, and Unity
Gearbox Gameplay
Playable Factory launches Gearbox Video to streamline mobile video ad creation
A tool to generate gameplay videos
News
Sentry begins catching and monitoring issues in Unity
More than 800 game development companies currently use Sentry
Snap Partner Summit 2021
Voodoo extends partnership with Snapchat, five more games coming to platform
Unity deal also in place regarding Bitmojis
Welcome Aboard
Unity welcomes Luis Felipe Visoso as SVP and CFO
"Luis comes to Unity with great experience honed at some of the world's most respected companies"
Moving On
Amazon Luna boss Marc Whitten departs the company
Exec has taken a role at Unity
Money Money Money
Beamable secures $5 million in funding
To be used to grow its live game service for Unity
Competition
Unity claims its "real competition" is companies still making own engines, not Epic
But CFO Jabal points out the firm's dominance over the Fortnite maker in many areas
Oh Snap
Snap Inc partners with Unity to bring its tech to game developers
"We're building on our commitment of enabling developer success at all stages of the game life cycle, from creation onwards"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Double Coconut founder David Fox on exploring different game development tools
Unity vs. Unreal vs. Godot vs. Cocos2D/LibGDX
Partnered Up
Unity partners with Playing for the Planet to further its commitment to social responsibility
As well as Pledge 1% and Rare Beauty
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Understanding Unity’s new program that helps developers acquire players
The MTM team digs into Unity's game growth program
Full Support
Unity launches Social Impact Division to support equality and sustainability
It is backed by a charity fund
Monetisation
Unity launches Game Growth Program to support free-to-play indie games
"Great games often go unnoticed, especially within the indie segment"
Money Money Money
Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE
Company valued at $13.7 billion
Unity Ipo
Unity reveals plans to IPO on New York Stock Exchange
Raising money to pay off a loan and maybe make some acquisitions
Making Changes
Unity details changes coming to its 2020.1 update
Package manager and workflows have been upgraded
Help To Learn
Unity makes its premium learning tools permanently free
"The COVID-19 pandemic has led to millions of jobs lost globally"
Staying Safe
Unity isn't attending physical events for 2020
Firm's own Unite show goes digital-only
Unite Now
Unity unveils weekly online series Unite Now as it cancels all physical Unite events for 2020
Running through spring and summer
Using Unity
Riot Games will use Unity for two upcoming projects
Legends of Runeterra and League of Legends: Wild Rift built using the engine
Adjust Unites
Adjust becomes Unity's first mobile measurement partner
Easy access to the Adjust SDK in Unity
Like Witchcraft
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game has 100 people development team
‘Scaling Up’ session hosted by CD Projekt Red at Unite 2019
Access All Areas
New platform Unity Learn Premium aims to help teach real-time 3D development
Available at no further cost for Plus and Pro subscribers or $15 a month
Lawsuit
Ex-Unity VP files lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination
Tech firm denies claims of wrongful termination and other allegations
Good Day For A Swell Drive
Cuphead arriving in Tesla cars this summer
Made possible through the use of Unity and Unreal Engine
Funding News
Unity chases further $125 million funding round at $6 billion valuation
Tech company has raised around $600 million to date
Open-source
The Jolly Rogers - An open-source Unity game
Heroic Labs open-sources a demo game on GitHub
Unity Foundation
GDC 2019: Unity AR Foundation ties together ARKit and ARCore development
Creators can target both SDKs through one framework
Acquisition News
GDC 2019: Unity acquires texture streaming tools firm Graphine
Company develops Granite toolset
New Realities
GDC 2019: Unity "investing heavily" in augmented reality tech
"We’re really keen on AR and we’re seeing a lot of the big partners release a lot of products in this space, and we’re excited to see where it’s going"
Call Of Duty
GDC 2019: Activision partners with Tencent for Call of Duty Mobile set for release in Western markets
Pre-registrations open on Google Play
Going Public?
Report: Unity eyes up 2020 IPO
Firm eyes first half of 2020 for flotation, sources claim
Unity
Unity Playground aims to open game development up to kids
Scriptless asset suite seeks to provide a stepping stone for young users looking to get into the engine
The Final Statement?
Improbable games allowed back on Unity
But SpatialOS still not officially supported
Opinion
Sorry Improbable, the Unity dispute is just business
Improbable sorry for causing “uncertainty, confusion and pain” as Unity rejects that current SpatialOS devs will have their games blocked
Rage Fuel
War of words heats up between games tech firms Unity and Improbable
As Fortnite firm Epic swoops in with $25m fund for developers to come to its engine
Unity Icon Collective
Unity Icon Collective aims to offer ready-made triple-A assets on the Asset Store
First pack is free for Unity Pro users
Banner Up
Unity Ads SDK 3.0 features personalised placements, AR and banner ads
Personalised placements uses machine learning to decide between an ad or IAP promotion
Fab
Unity on the long and challenging road to developing workable nested prefabs
"We were building something, not for ourselves, but everybody else"
Social Asset
GetSocial partners with Unity to bring sharing tools to Asset Store
Company offers social analytics and publishing tools
Unity
67% of Unity developers are choosing to publish independently
Unity reports on the development habits of 1,445 small to medium Indies
About Time
Report: Telltale Games to ditch its own its own tech for Unity game engine
Follows 15 years of using Telltale Tool
Realer Than Real
Unity drives deeper into augmented reality with Project MARS
“Reality is our build target”
Smooth
Unity showcases machine learning powered animation with Kinematika
New pipeline hopes to make high-quality animation easier
Quick Switch
“It only took two days to get Shadowgun Legends on Nintendo Switch”
Madfinger CEO Marek Rabas takes to the stage at Unite Berlin 2018
Nested Prefabs People
Nested prefabs come to Unity preview at long last
Along with an entirely new prefab workflow
Big Deal
Unity migrating entire infrastructure to Google Cloud
Tech firms also reveal open source matchmaking project set to go live in summer 2018
Nice
Mail.Ru teams up with Unity to invest in games developers
Devs will also receive technological, marketing and analytical support
United
Unity introduces scriptable render pipelines and C# Job System in 2018.1 update
Latest version includes 330 new features and improvements