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Introducing The Fabricator Contest!

MuseGames.com & Unity Technologies are teaming up for a new bi-monthly Unity “Prefab” based contest called The Fabricator Contest! The contest will be a regular event that will ch... Continue

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1 Sep 2010
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Save the date for Unite 2010!

Yup, you read that right, it’s that time of year again, the time to get yourself ready for this year’s edition of our annual developer’s conference, Unite 2010! Unite 2010Novemb... Continue

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14 Jul 2010
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Pre-Order Unity Android, Get a Google Nexus One!

You’re probably wondering whether you’re reading the title right and for 500 of you, you are! Today we put out a press release offering up some incredibly cool news about Unity and ou... Continue

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24 Jun 2010
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The first Unity 3.0 pre-purchase betas are now shi...

Today is an exciting day for all of us here at Unity Technologies as we’re now shipping pre-release beta builds of Unity 3.0 to the first 100 people that pre-purchased the licenses since th... Continue

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23 Jun 2010
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Unity Turns 5, Happy Birthday!

In 2003 three talented and creative individuals came together in Copenhagen, Denmark based on a shared vision about making their own game engine, one that they felt would quite literally change t... Continue

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7 Jun 2010
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Unity Tech signs a three-year deal with LEGO!

As y’all know the user base for Unity is exploding and that growth includes developers across the spectrum, from games to non-games, from small development shops to large studios, from soci... Continue

Posted
8 Feb 2010
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Author once, deploy anywhere?

A long held dream in the development world has been the idea of “author once, deploy anywhere”. To explain what is meant by that is simple, it’s the notion of being able to auth... Continue

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22 Jan 2010
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Unity Asset Server 2.0 Released!

Today we’re excited to have released Unity Asset Server 2.0! This is a free update for all existing users of the Unity Asset Server and it offers the following new features: The Unity Asset... Continue

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23 Dec 2009
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Kongregate.com now supports Unity content!

The news, the great news, just keeps on coming! Recently the folks at Kongregate.com announced their new Konduit Platform and one of the cool benefits of that news is that they are now open to no... Continue

Posted
16 Dec 2009
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Happy Holidays from Unity Technologies!

Hey folks, the end of another incredible year is rapidly coming to a close and the holiday season is fast upon us, and we here at Unity Technologies want to help everyone celebrate with a special... Continue

Posted
12 Dec 2009
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iTunes Rewind 2009 Recognizes Unity Games!

Apple recently put out their iTunes Rewind 2009, it’s Apple’s way of recognizing the best music, TV, movies and of course iPhone applications and games from this last year. What’... Continue

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11 Dec 2009
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Unity Content Featured in iLounge Buyer’s Gu...

Earlier this week iLounge released their 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyer’s Guide and a number of Unity titles are featured in their top games list! For starters you can check it all out at the fol... Continue

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5 Nov 2009
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2009 Unity Awards – Finalists & Winners...

Now that we’re clear of the frantic week we call Unite 2009 let’s talk about the also incredible Unity Awards! Once again we had a huge increase in not only the total number of submis... Continue

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2 Nov 2009
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Unite 2009, it’s a wrap, see you next time!

Wow, Unite 2009 has come to a close and once again it was an awesome/incredible/crazy/you-name-it week! Now that I’ve had a day or so to rest and recuperate a bit I figured I’d take a... Continue

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2 Nov 2009
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Unite 2009: Day 2 Begins

As the sun rises over San Franciso we’re gearing up for another exciting day at Unite 2009. Yesterday was a new experiment for us in having a day of classes added on to the conference and f... Continue

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28 Oct 2009
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Unity on the Web – Using Reddit to Keep Trac...

With such a rapidly growing community and user base behind Unity it’s become increasingly difficult to keep tabs on all the developer blogs, cool content, all the new 3rd party tutorial and... Continue

Posted
20 Oct 2009
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Unity Game Development Essentials

By now many folks are aware of the fact that Will Goldstone has written a book about Unity, it’s called Unity Game Development Essentials and it’s being published by Packt Publishing.... Continue

Posted
14 Oct 2009
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SIEGE 2009 – My (Brief) Trip Report

This past weekend I traveled down to Atlanta, Georgia to speak at SIEGE 2009 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo). During my trip I not only got to meet a number of local develope... Continue

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6 Oct 2009
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Unite ’09 tickets now on sale!

We’re happy to announce that tickets to this year’s Unite ’09 conference are now on sale! This year’s event is a bit different than the prior two years as there is now an ... Continue

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17 Sep 2009
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Vancouver Unity TGIF & Skills Workshop –...

After a crazy week featuring not one but three separate events crammed into the span of one week (plus this past week of travel and catching up) I’m finally back to having my head above water a... Continue

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1 Aug 2009
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Casual Connect Seattle – My trip report̷...

After a crazy week featuring not one but three separate events crammed into the span of one week I’m finally coming up for air and thought I’d take a minute to share some thoughts wit... Continue

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30 Jul 2009
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Unity 2.5.1 Released!

I’m happy to report that Unity 2.5.1 has finished baking in the oven and is now ready for download! As with all minor updates (anything 2.x) this is a free update for all existing Unity 2.x... Continue

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8 Jul 2009
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Unity Summer of Code

We here at Unity Tech draw inspiration from a variety of sources, some come from within, others from outside, this one definitely came from an external source. We’ve long wanted to offer so... Continue

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7 Jul 2009
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Unity Community Meetup in San Francisco

In early April a discussion started about possibly getting some folks from the Unity community together during or just after WWDC. The thread started nicely but then sort of fell off the radar fo... Continue

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17 Jun 2009
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Unity Tech SF has a new home!

As Unity Technologies continues to grow in size one of those things we have an increasing need for is office space. Out here in San Francisco that need has been high for quite some time and final... Continue

Posted
5 Jun 2009
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The Unity blogs are now web player enabled!

I interact with the WordPress blog engine both here at work as well as at home for my personal blog. Given that WordPress experience, and the fact that I work at Unity Technologies, makers of the... Continue

Posted
12 May 2009
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Unity wishes or product feedback? Use your voice!

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve how we go about our business I’m excited to report that we’ve begun a bit of an experiment to improve how we gather user wish-list items and ... Continue

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16 Apr 2009
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Unity + GDC Trip Report

Man, what a week! GDC ’09 has now slipped past us and slowly we’re recovering and getting our heads back above water. I thought I’d take a few minutes and share some thoughts fr... Continue

Posted
31 Mar 2009
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Unity 2.5 for Mac and Windows now available!

Yes, it’s true, we’ve done it. Yesterday we shipped Unity 2.5 which among other things finally offers support for Unity authoring on Mac OS X and Windows! From the announcement email ... Continue

Posted
20 Mar 2009
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Zombieville USA + Blush = Cool New Unity Content!

It’s been a busy year already for everyone in the Unity community and the year is still just getting started! Unity 2.5 is around the corner, GDC looms close and as of late there have been ... Continue

Posted
10 Mar 2009
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