Unity has had a rough year. The company was caught up in a firestorm of criticism in September of last year when it announced a runtime fee that would charge developers a fee every time a Unity game ...

For those unfamiliar, Unity Software operates a game engine, also called Unity, and has done so for 20 years now. The Unity game engine serves as a sort of operating system for a video game. Unity's ...

It's pretty simple on paper. From January 1 2024 any game that is using the Unity Engine will be paying a fee to Unity for every install on a new device. There’s a complex system of tiers and ways to ...

On September 12, Unity announced that beginning January 1, 2024, its pricing for developers would include a “Runtime Fee,” a new 20-cent charge to be levied every time a player installed a game after ...

If you were developing a Unity Engine game on Monday, you did so with the general understanding that you wouldn’t be charged additional royalties or fees beyond your subscription to the Unity Editor ...

A year ago, Unity Technologies created a huge problem for itself and the developers who use its game engine: It introduced a near-universally hated new fee tied to a developer’s game installs. While ...

If you’ve been following the game industry over the last few days, you might have heard that Unity, the creators of the far-reaching game engine of the same name, have made a bit of a mess. A new ...

For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.