Neowin News Feed for: Unity

Unity games are coming to Fortnite in a historic partnership with Epic Games

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:34:01 +0000

Epic Games and Unity have unveiled a historic partnership, allowing Unity-made games to be published within Fortnite and introducing Unreal Engine support to Unity's commerce tools. Read more...

Microsoft Mesh also impacted by Unity issue, patches rolling out for all games too

Usama Jawad — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:28:01 +0000

Microsoft has published a dedicated advisory for the recent Unity RCE vulnerability, indicating that Mesh applications and dozens of games are impacted. Read more...

Unity discloses severe RCE vulnerability, urges developers to apply patches

Usama Jawad — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:32:02 +0000

Unity has disclosed a particularly severe vulnerability affecting all games going back to 2017. Malicious actors can utilize this security issue to gain access to data on your machine. Read more...

The Unity 6 game engine and tools will officially launch October 17

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:34:01 +0000

Unity has revealed that it will release Unity 6, the latest version of its game engine and development tools, on October 17. Read more...

Unity finally does away with its Runtime Fee for game developers

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:32:01 +0000

Unity has revealed that it has immediately removed the Runtime Fee for using its graphics engine for game developers. However, it is increasing overall fees for some customers. Read more...

Microsoft's former Xbox communication head Larry Hryb has joined Unity's Community team

John Callaham — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:46:01 +0000

Larry Hryb, who left Microsoft after being its Xbox communications head for over a decade, has revealed he has a new job as part of the Community team at the Unity game developer tool company. Read more...

Unity development just got easier in Visual Studio Code with new extension

Paul Hill — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. It gives you advanced editing features when working on Unity projects and it allows you to debug your projects more easily. Read more...

Game engine company Unity will lay off 25 percent of its employees by the end of March

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:44:01 +0000

The game engine company Unity will lay off 1,800 of its employees, or about 25 percent of its workforce, from now until the end of March, in yet another negative event for the business. Read more...

Unity lays off 265 employees as part of strategic "company reset"

Omer Dursun — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:56:02 +0000

Unity announced the layoff of 265 employees from its partnership with Weta Digital as the services agreement comes to an end. The layoffs will affect roles that support Weta FX's use of Unity tools. Read more...

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is departing after the company backtracked on its fee changes

John Callaham — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:00:01 +0000

Unity CEO and President John Riccitiello, who joined the game engine and development tool company in 2014, will depart the company effective immediately. James M. Whitehurst will serve as interim CEO Read more...

Unity officially backtracks on many of its previously announced per-install runtime fees

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:20:01 +0000

Unity now says its per-install runtime fee will only apply to its Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise customers "beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond." Read more...

Unity could cap revenues it gets from its biggest game developer customers

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:20:01 +0000

A new report claims Unity may now try to limit its game engine and runtime fees to 4 percent of a game's revenue for developers who make over $1 million, but that plan has not been finalized yet. Read more...

Unity claims it will be "making changes" to its per-install fee policy soon

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 03:40:02 +0000

In an unusual late Sunday announcement, Unity says it will be "making changes" to its plans to put in a per-install fee for its runtime software, but it has provided no other details. Read more...

Unity's offices get closed down for today and Friday due to a credible death threat

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:08:01 +0000

The offices for the Unity game engine and development tools in Austin, Texas, and San Francisco closed down today due to reports of a credible death threat that was directed toward the company Read more...

Unity announces changes for its game engine pricing that could affect Xbox Game Pass titles

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:58:01 +0000

The company behind the Unity game engine has revealed a new pricing plan that will charge developers every time a game is installed. That could affect games released via Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass. Read more...

Unity developers can now make games for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset

Omer Dursun — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:36:01 +0000

Unity has released the beta version of PolySpatial. This platform for the Apple Vision Pro allows developers to create 3D experiences for VisionOS using face tracking, object detection, and more. Read more...

Microsoft improving Windows on Arm support for Visual Studio with MAUI, LLVM, Node, Unity

Sayan Sen — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:00:16 +0000

At its Build 2023 event today, Microsoft is sharing details on the progress and headway it has made in terms of Arm64 support on Windows. A bunch of applications are getting native Arm support. Read more...

Unity and Microsoft team up so Xbox Research can remotely play test games

John Callaham — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:32:01 +0000

Microsoft's Xbox Research is using Unity's Parsec cloud-based remote desktop platform, combined with Azure, to help it with virtual playtesting on its games like Halo Infinite and more. Read more...

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Unity rejects AppLovin's "unsolicited" $17.5 billion buyout offer

Usama Jawad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:04:01 +0000

Unity's board has rejected mobile app monetization company AppLovin's surprising offer to purchase Unity for $17.5 billion. Instead, the firm will purchase AppLovin's competitor ironSource. Read more...

Unity taps Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner

Usama Jawad — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:30:01 +0000

Unity has selected Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner. The alliance will see developers leveraging Azure-powered technologies in the Unity engine to reach wider audiences on Xbox and PC. Read more...

Meta, Microsoft, Sony form Metaverse Standards Forum, Apple nowhere to be seen

Usama Jawad — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:26:01 +0000

Multiple big firms including Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games, and Sony have joined hands to form the Metaverse Standards Forum to build upon spatial technology standards. Apple is suspiciously absent. Read more...

Not an April Fools' joke: Classic Angry Birds is back from the dead, rebuilt in Unity

Usama Jawad — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:48:01 +0000

Rovio has returned the classic Angry Birds game to mobile storefronts. It costs $0.99 and should be identical to the original release (with all the extra levels) but has been rebuilt in Unity. Read more...

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Microsoft announces Project Acoustics 2.0 with faster bake times, dynamic openings, and more

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 05:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced Project Acoustics 2.0, its wave-based simulation engine to introduce immersive acoustics in 3D environments such as those offered by a game or a mixed reality experience. Read more...

Unity is getting support for Nvidia DLSS with version 2021.2

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:32:01 +0000

Nvidia and Unity have announced that supported for the former company's Deep Learning Super Sampling, allowing Unity game developers to improve performance and visuals in their titles. Read more...

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