Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after troubling ...

The popular game engine Unity announced an extremely controversial change earlier this week to its payment structure that universally has game developers fuming and horrified. “It’s just a betrayal,” ...

It's been over a month now since Unity partially backtracked on its controversial proposed "pay per install" fee structure, a trust-destroying saga that seems to have contributed to the retirement of ...

After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to ...

Unity Technologies, the company behind the cross-platform game engine Unity, announced a new pricing model on Tuesday — and it’s been almost universally condemned by the video game developer community ...

A controversial new pricing plan for games developed with the Unity engine is likely to significantly impact subscription services like PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass. For the uninitiated, Unity has ...

In a brief statement on X (Formerly Twitter), Unity confirmed that they would be making changes to the new install fee they plan to implement with their engine in 2024. After receiving feedback from ...

Unity has shot itself in the foot with its latest monetization scheme to charge devs based on how many times users install their game. Image: Iljanaresvara Studio (Shutterstock) Less than a week after ...

Unity is adding a new charge for every time a game using the Unity Engine is installed, the company announced today. Starting January 1, a Unity Runtime Fee will be charged to any game that has passed ...

Yesterday, Unity woke up and chose idiocy – at least that’s how developers and the rest of the industry took its announcement of a new install-based royalty fee, where developers would be charged for ...

The key difference is that the end product of Photoshop or Maya is a standalone piece of media. While game engines are the heart of any game built using them. So when you sell a licensed copy, you're ...