For nearly as long as video games have been around, they’ve enjoyed a tight relationship with pop music. As early as 1983, Bally-Midway collaborated with Journey to make a game full of licensed songs and the band members’ digitized faces (which followed more than a decade of pinball cabinets featuring megaton bands), and that says […]
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Unity CFO Kim Jabal interview: Understanding the tradeoff between market share and profits
GamesBeat x Oculus Venues Join Dean Takahashi, Ramez Naam, and Tim Chang online for “Science Fiction, Tech, and Games.” Hosted in VR and 2D February 17th, 10:00am PT Learn More Unity Technologies recently reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31. It reported revenues rose 39% to $ 220.3 million, but […]
Unity files for IPO, reveals $163 million loss for 2019 and 1.5 million monthly users
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Unity Technologies has filed for an initial public offering to help its business of making it easier for developers to create video games and other kinds of computer-generated entertainment. The rumor of Unity’s IPO has been around for a while, and now […]
HoloLens 2 dev kits: $3,500, or $99/month, with Azure credits, Unity trials
Enlarge / Microsoft HoloLens 2. Microsoft The second-generation HoloLens 2 was announced back in February. At the time, Microsoft only disclosed commercial pricing for the greatly improved augmented reality headset: $ 3,500. This is $ 1,500 less than the commercial edition of the first edition but $ 500 more than the developer edition. Today, the […]
Samsung partners with Unity to help games run better on Galaxy S10
Samsung is working with game engine maker Unity Technologies to help games run smoother on the new Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone. Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 smartphone is like a “supercomputer in your pocket,” said Samsung product marketing manager Drew Blackard at today’s Unpacked event. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s good for gamers. […]
Unity clarifies ToS changes, welcomes back “unsupported” SpatialOS
Enlarge Days after a nasty public split with cloud gaming developer Improbable, Unity has reinstated the company’s license and updated its own terms of service to offer what it is calling a “commitment to being an open platform.” “When you make a game with Unity, you own the content and you should have the right […]
CEO John Riccitiello: Two-thirds of all AR and VR apps are built with Unity
Unity CEO John Riccitiello doesn’t think we’ve yet seen a true consumer launch of a VR or AR headset. Speaking at this month’s TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco, Riccitiello stated that around two-thirds of all VR and AR applications were built inside the Unity engine, though he reasoned that every device on the market today was […]