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 ...

Unity Technologies will make changes to its wildly unpopular install-based fee policy, the company said Sunday in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter. The update comes days after Unity ...

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 ...

Game engine Unity has announced it will begin charging developers a fee every time a user installs their game. That's even if someone's just installing games they already own on a new computer.

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.

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 ...

UPDATE: A new report from Bloomberg outlines some of the changes reportedly coming to the policy. According to the report from Jason Schreier, Unity told staffers in a meeting this morning that it's ...

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 ...

Last month, Unity shot itself in the foot by announcing a policy change, since revoked, that could’ve charged game developers a “Runtime Fee” for every time their game was installed on an end user’s ...

After nearly a week of protracted developer anger over a newly announced runtime fee of up to $0.20 per game install, Unity says it will be "making changes" to that policy and will share a further ...