Unity, the cross-platform game engine that powers games like Rust, Hollow Knight, and Pokémon Go, has introduced a new, controversial fee for developers, set to take effect next year.Indie ...

Overall, Unity has 7,000 people working on the game engine and other services, and this fee for the Unity Runtime is meant to help cover those costs, Whitten said. The company cut about 600 ...

Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

Doing quick math, for any game that surpassed 1 million installs, the developer would owe Unity $200,000. And for any fairly popular indie video game this is a lot of money.

Unity announced a new fee structure today, and developers are none too happy. “We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user ...

Unity’s engine is one of a handful of software development tool sets in the video game industry. Developers can use the tools to create 3-D character models that can run, jump and shoot enemies ...

Twenty-one mobile game companies with a total of at least 3.5 billion downloads wrote a letter to Unity saying its download-based price increase will destabilize the mobile game ecosystem.. Azur ...

Developers who use Unity's free services will be charged $0.20 (£0.16) every time their game is downloaded - but only if the game makes $200,000 in 12 months and is downloaded over 200,000 times ...

First, Unity’s Marc Whitten told Axios that Unity won’t make developers pay a fee for players who uninstall and re-install game on the same device; they will have to pay if the game is ...