Ars Technica

Unity purchases Weta Digital’s visual-effects tool suite for $1.6 billion

Unity, the company best known for its line of popular video game engines, has announced plans to purchase the tech division of the Peter Jackson-led, New Zealand-based visual-effects studio Weta ...
Eurogamer

Unity acquires Sir Peter Jackson's Weta in $1.6bn deal

Unity is set to acquire Weta, the visual effects company co-founded by Sir Peter Jackson, for $1.625bn. The companies have entered a "definitive agreement", which will place Weta's renowned VFX tools ...
BBC

Peter Jackson sells visual effects firm for $1.6bn to Unity

Part of the New Zealand-based visual effects studio co-founded by Oscar-winning director Sir Peter Jackson has been sold for $1.6bn (£1.2bn). A division of Weta Digital, which has worked on films ...
Macworld

Unity game engine adds new grass and tree effects

OTEE has announced the release of Unity v1.5.1, a new version of their 3D game development engine for Mac OS X. A free update for all registered Unity 1.x users, Unity 1.5.1 is priced starting at $249 ...