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Yesterday marked a huge milestone for Unity – releasing a public beta preview of our upcoming version 3.5 (Okay so you’re excited, you somehow missed the home page – go download it here http://unity3d.com/unity/preview). With a huge feature set to show off, and new export targets such as the much talked about Flash and Google…

Autumn is here.. and for those of us in the northern hemisphere, this means cooler weather, colorful falling leaves, pumpkins and Halloween monsters. And on the Unity Asset Store, you’ll find things are equally cool, colorful, and there’s no shortage of monsters! If you’re not already familiar with the Unity Asset Store, it’s the place…

Unity Technologies is excited to announce the release of Unity 3.4 – a free update to all existing Unity 3.x users. Through the integration of Allegorithmic’s Substance technology, Unity 3.4 features highly customizable procedural textures that can be adjusted both within the Unity editor and at runtime. Using substances in Unity, developers can stream high…

Unity is all about the content. Developers create the amazing content which make our tools, technology and products so compelling. Unity has added a dedicated Developer Relations team to not only assist you in creating the best content possible, but also to help you reach more users and make more money. We’re here to help…

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. No, that’s not Conan O’Brien, it’s Brady Wright, our first quarter’s top seller on the Unity Asset Store! If you’re not familiar with his products, check out EZ-GUI and Sprite Manager. You too can win an 8′  x 2′ check and utterly perplex your bank teller!…

These are exciting times. Today, at the Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco (of which we’re proud Gold Sponsors), Adobe has announced the public availability of a beta version of the Flash Player, codenamed Molehill, that has a very interesting new feature: hardware accelerated 3D support. Molehill exposes a very low-level shader-based interface to the…

Hi! I’m Tricia Gray, Unity’s Marketing Communications Director and Union’s Marketing Director. I am pretty excited about our upcoming presence at GDC in San Francisco. Particularly, the Unity Track Day on Tuesday, March 1st, 10am to 6:15pm, Room 123 in the North Hall Below is the schedule and description of our sessions. I will be…

Greetings Unity developers! I’m thrilled to join the Unity team as the new Developer Relations Director focused on our Union business unit. My enviable job is to work with our great developers to find and deliver games to emerging and existing markets through the technical, business and marketing services of Union. In case you missed…

Nothing inspires us more than seeing talented developers make amazing games with Unity. That’s why we are proud to be the event sponsor of this year’s Nordic Game Jam and are offering Unity Pro licenses to the winning team. The Nordic Game Jam starts at 6:00PM Friday, January 28 and consists of 48-hours of sleep-deprived…

Unite 2010 was incredible – undeniably the best Unite ever… but then every one of them has had that honor! We had visitors from as far as India, Israel, Uruguay and Australia – a total of 22 nationalities (and another 15 or so if you include Unity employees). And although these people are all working…

Dear community, friends, and Unite participants. We were off to a fantastic start of Unite yesterday! We sold out with 650 participants – nearly double the size of last year’s conference but were able to make space for everyone (though the keynote session ended up being standing room only for the latecomers!) The live stream…

Every year Unite is the event that the whole growing company looks forwards to, crunches to make awesome, and finally gathers at – this is literally the only time every year that brings together everyone from our 5 offices and some 7 satellite locations. This year’s Unite 2010 is less than two days away, and…

Dear  community, developers, friends. Yet another wonderful thing has befallen us – Unity has been nominated for the Game Developer’s 2010 Frontline Awards in the category “Best Engine”. We were a runner up last year, but since then we’ve released Unity 3, soft-launched Unity for Android, and are coming well along with both Xbox 360…

We would like to congratulate the following schools for winning the first round of the Unity Great Education Give Away. Swinburne University of Technology AU Rasmussen College US Central Piedmont Community College US University of North Florida US Purdue University US Rochester Institute of Technology US Champlain College US Upper Austria University of Applied Sicenses…

Hey guys and gals. Super-happy news here from Unity HQ: Unity 3 is nearly ready – the beta testers and preview customers got their hands on the RC1 build a few days ago. This means we’re wrapping up this cycle and shipping soon. It also means that our pre-order rebate is about to expire, so…

Last weekend the staff of Unity’s SF office were setting desks up in our new office. We’re now in the historic Jackson Square neighborhood nestled between China Town, North Beach, the Financial District, and the Embarcadero. We’ve been in our new space for a week now and I really love it! Not only is it great to…

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 2010 November 10-12, 2010 Montreal, Quebec Canada Once again, Unite 2010 will bring artists, programmers, designers, researchers, publishers, and other Unity enthusiasts from around the world…

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 the game. They began to make that vision a reality while living the life of starving up-and-coming developers, working long hours and late nights…

It was almost two years ago that we moved our Copenhagen office to a really cozy house in Frederiksberg. There were just about a dozen of us in the office, and we felt that the place encapsulated the spirit of Unity at the time. We know that over time many of you came to love…

This blog post is written by Sándor Moldán (Nekharoth on forums) who has been working on Terrain Toolkit to help generate realistic terrains in Unity Editor. The project was one of the four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code. Terrain Toolkit The Terrain Toolkit is an integrated set of tools…

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 social media outlets to major media providers. Today we have news about not just a major media provider but a major toy manufacturer as well,…

…I took a plane to Copenhagen. Well ok, it all started a bit before:

What a wonderful Christmas present! So, 2009 has been an amazing year. I won’t list out all our achievements, but they’ve been many, and some big enough that achieving just one of them would have made us very proud. But just in time for the Holiday season, Unity Technologies has been selected as one of…

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 end of year discount. Specifically we’re offering everyone the chance to save 20% off of any purchases made in…

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’s exciting for us is that there are three Unity-authored games found among the best and top selling games lists! Given that awesome achievement I thought…

  The UK Office Hello everyone! My first blog post is to announce that our UK office is open and rocking already. There are now five of us working for Unity Technologies from the UK, and we have started recruiting heavily to fill more positions. I will talk about what we are doing at this…

Tony Garcia, Director of Business Development, and I went to Toronto recently for a whirlwind Unity tour like the one Tom Higgins did not too long ago in Vancouver. What can we say? We love supporting Canadanian Unity developers! It also helps that J. Joly over at OverInteractive Media keeps setting events like these up….

At end of April 2009, Joachim sent this out to all developers at Unity: We want to try one more thing… On Friday work on something cool. I think there are a lot of low hanging fruits in Unity where somebody with drive can just do something cool that pushes us forward. Things that are…

As most of Unity Technologies was present during Unite, we decided to get a new group photo taken for our website. In case you haven’t seen it yet, this was the result: This is just the latest picture in what has become a company tradition: To take a group photo whenever enough of us are…

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 submissions (129!) but also in the overall content and quality of those submissions. It was a tough job to pare down…