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Experience the Asset Store from your browser!

We’re so pleased to announce the release of the Unity Asset Store’s new browser-based interface!  For the first time, you can now browse the Asset Store in its entirety from outside ... Continue

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18 Dec 2012
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Unity 3.5.7 is out!

Good news for Unity 3.5 users – we just released version 3.5.7 with lots of fixes for Android, iOS and a few others. Download it here - http://unity3d.com/unity/download/archive Here’... Continue

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14 Dec 2012
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Learn Unity update #2

Here at Unity we’ve been working hard on an entirely new area of the website to help you learn game development with Unity. We’ve posted twice so far about this, and given you an outl... Continue

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13 Dec 2012
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How to Submit to the iOS App Store: A Unity Guide

As many of you are creating great content for the Apple iOS App Store, we wanted to create a quick guide to show you how the submission process works, once your game is ready. This video is court... Continue

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13 Dec 2012
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Three Ninja Camp VII projects at a glimpse

Our longest running Ninja Camp wraps today. After the crunch of the Unity 4 release, our developers got  three weeks to jam on awesome new projects. “Ninja Camp recognizes that software develo... Continue

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7 Dec 2012
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What’s next on Mecanim roadmap

Hi everyone, After the excitement of the Unity 4 release and the creative blast of Ninja Camp, it’s time for another Mecanim update. Unity 4 with Mecanim brings beautiful efficiency and ease of... Continue

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7 Dec 2012
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Unity and Gambling

Unity is a game engine. Right? We’ve always worked on one big goal: making Unity the best game technology in the world and making it available to as many developers as possible. That’s wh... Continue

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4 Dec 2012
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Unity Serious Games Highlight Reel at I/ITSEC 2012...

Unity is used to create a lot of interactive software outside of the video game industry. Everything from architectural visualizations to military training programs are being created with regular... Continue

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3 Dec 2012
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Iterative baking of Occlusion and NavMeshes

A lot of cool stuff was developed during Ninja Camp VII. One of the projects targetted the baking of NavMeshes and Occlusion data. Wouldn’t it be cool if the navmesh and occlusion data was ... Continue

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30 Nov 2012
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Testing your web player content against the latest...

When we release new versions of Unity, we also update the Unity Web Player to contain the latest Unity runtime. This means that users who newly install the Web Player will run content with the la... Continue

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29 Nov 2012
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Linux Publishing in Unity 4.0

It’s Na’Tosha from Team Penguin Pushers here, and in case you missed the news, Unity 4.0 has been released — with a publishing option for Linux! For those of us who have been wo... Continue

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22 Nov 2012
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A New Unity Office in Finland!

Hei! Hello – my name is Petri Nordlund and I’m pleased to announce that Unity has opened a grand new office in Finland. We are located in the new blue building in Keilaranta – t... Continue

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20 Nov 2012
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No rest for the Ninjas

With our biggest release to date just out the door, you’d think the developers at Unity would get some time to kick back and relax. Hell no! On Monday, Ninja Camp VII commenced at the Copenhage... Continue

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20 Nov 2012
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Shuriken – World Particle Collision

With Unity 4.0 we are adding support for world particle collsion detection. It’s quite awesome and very fast. We spent a lot of time optimizing world particle collisions and also did more t... Continue

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18 Nov 2012
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Unity Technologies’ Reception in Berlin.

*SOLD OUT* The date has been set! In collaboration with the Unity Berlin local user group, we are hosting a reception at the Panorama37 on November 29th, 2012. We are excited to present Uni... Continue

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17 Nov 2012
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Adobe Flash Player Export in 4.0

It’s been quite a while since we took a step back from our work here to give you all an update on how the Adobe Flash Player deployment add-on has been progressing. The good news is that things... Continue

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16 Nov 2012
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Testing Unity 4.0

In the aftermath of all the features and goodies Unity 4.0 will give you, I’d like to bring you the story of how the quality assurance, or “testing” if you prefer that, has commenced and ev... Continue

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14 Nov 2012
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Unity 4 is out!

Ahem. I’m really happy to tell you all that Unity 4 is officially released. We have been hard at work putting the final touches on this first release in the Unity 4 cycle, and we’re extremely... Continue

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13 Nov 2012
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The Butterfly Effect Project

The Butterfly Effect animated short made big waves at Unite 2012 in Amsterdam. It was shown in video form and demonstrated in-engine for the first time during the keynote. It gave attendees the f... Continue

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7 Nov 2012
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Game in a week helps campaign

Spotted this on Reddit thanks to one of our own staff, Jay Santos, and felt compelled to blog about it – Tyrus Peace is a game developer and artist who has utilized Unity to make an awesome... Continue

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6 Nov 2012
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Unity’s ready for the iPad4 and new iPad Mini!

iOS developers around the world are waiting impatiently for Friday, November 2, when the new iPad4 and iPad Mini ship. The iPad4 promises improved CPU and GPU performance, meaning you can develop... Continue

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1 Nov 2012
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Unity 4.0 third public beta (including free versio...

Helloes! We are in the finishing stages of Unity 4.0 release. So here’s the third beta build: unity3d.com/unity/beta/download. A change from previous beta builds: now you can test the free ... Continue

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1 Nov 2012
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Unity 3.4 Hotfix for new Android devices

With the new Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 from Google announced on Monday we noticed a compatibility problem between older games based on Unity 3.4.x and the new Android OS 4.2. Specifically, older games... Continue

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1 Nov 2012
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Unity Windows Phone 8 at Microsoft Build Conferenc...

Today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference held at the company’s campus in Redmond, WA, Tony Garcia, Unity EVP of Business Development, took the stage during the mobile keynote to talk a... Continue

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30 Oct 2012
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New office in Bogotá!

Hola Unitees, se habla español! I’m Ricardo Arango, Developer Relations Lead at Unity Technologies and I am very excited to announce that Bogotá, Colombia is the place we have chosen for a ne... Continue

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30 Oct 2012
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In-depth Cache Server

In Unity 3.5 we shipped the first version of the Cache Server, and with 4.0 we’re making it even better (the way it works is the same). I want to go a bit in-depth to explain what it actual... Continue

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26 Oct 2012
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Unity Serialization

So you are writing a really cool editor extension in Unity and things seem to be going really well. You get your data structures all sorted out are really happy with how the tool you have written... Continue

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25 Oct 2012
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Cursor API

Hi, During the last ninja camp Shawn and I worked on getting hardware cursors into Unity, and now in Unity 4.0 they are ready. Built in support for cursors in Unity has been a heavily requested f... Continue

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22 Oct 2012
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Unity Launches the Unlimited Mixamo Animation Stor...

  Unity and Mixamo have been long time partners, and I’m happy to say that today our collaboration goes one step further: Starting October 16th 2012, Unity Users will be able to sign up fo... Continue

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16 Oct 2012
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A new office in Berlin !

Hallo mein Name ist Mark Val und ich bin Lead Developer in unserem neuen Studio in Berlin. The rumor is true, we have chosen Berlin to establish a new Unity office which will be located in the Kr... Continue

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5 Oct 2012
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