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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Game developers are still furious about Unity's planned install fees, but the platform holder is holding fast to its new policy, arguing that "90 percent of [Unity] customers will not be affected by ...

UPDATE: The backlash forced Unity to nix runtime fees for those on its personal plan. UPDATE 9/22: After some serious backlash, the company says the Unity Personal plan will still be free and games ...

John Riccitiello has decided to retire weeks after Unity sparked outrage over the company's effort to squeeze out more revenue from game developers. Unity is parting ways with its controversial CEO ...

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 ...

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 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 ...