Update: Unity’s CEO has now left the company’s employ, with immediate effect. The decision reflects the anger felt by developers about the original announcement. Mobile game developers who rely on the ...

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.

Game developers aren't happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine. It's called the Unity Runtime Fee, and ...

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Video game developers aren’t happy about Unity’s latest announcement—and that’s putting it lightly. The maker of one of the world’s most popular cross-platform game engines shared Tuesday that it ...

WTF?! Unity is a cross-platform game engine launched in 2005 with the goal of "democratizing" game development, seeking to make it accessible to a broader range of developers. Nearly 20 years later, ...

Unity announced a new fee structure today, and developers are none too happy. “We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user,” the ...

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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.

Developers will be charged a flat rate based on how many times their game is installed, no matter if that install is attached to a sale. Developers will be charged a flat rate based on how many times ...

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