The popular game engine Unity announced an extremely controversial change earlier this week to its payment structure that universally has game developers fuming and horrified. “It’s just a betrayal,” ...
Game engine Unity has announced it will begin charging developers a fee every time a user installs their game. That's even if someone's just installing games they already own on a new computer.
After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to ...
Unity has shot itself in the foot with its latest monetization scheme to charge devs based on how many times users install their game. Image: Iljanaresvara Studio (Shutterstock) Less than a week after ...
Marc Keever has been writing about video games since 2015. He is an avid fan of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy-themed games of all kinds, He loves covering these genres, indie games, as well as ...
WTF?! Unity is a cross-platform game engine launched in 2005 with the goal of "democratizing" game development, seeking to make it accessible to a broader range of developers. Nearly 20 years later, ...
Unless you're a game developer, you probably never thought about the Unity game engine beyond seeing the brand on startup splash screens—at least until last week. That's when the previously respected ...
Video game developers aren’t happy about Unity’s latest announcement—and that’s putting it lightly. The maker of one of the world’s most popular cross-platform game engines shared Tuesday that it ...
Update (Sept. 15): A Polygon report cites a statement from San Francisco police stating that the threat to the Unity offices came via social media, from "an employee" working in "an out of state ...
The indie game development community is in turmoil following Unity's announcement of a new pricing system that will charge developers per user on initial download, instead of a flat engine licensing ...
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