VentureBeat

In the game engine wars, Epic and Unity aim at enabling VR

Epic Games and Unity Technologies are in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. At a time when game budgets are soaring — even for mobile titles — developers rely on the engine makers ...
Road to VR

Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Report: Facebook wanted to buy Unity game engine to drive VR and AR business

Facebook considered buying game engine maker Unity Technologies back in 2015, according to claims made in a new book. Called ‘The History of the Future’ by Blake Harris, the book tells the story of ...
SiliconANGLE

VR optimism helps game engine maker Unity raise $400M in private equity

Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of the video game industry’s most popular third-party game engine, has raised an impressive $400 million in funding from private equity firm Silver Lake. According ...
Road to VR

One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect

Oculus’ forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics ...
SlashGear

Unity Engine 2016 Demo Is Terrifyingly Realistic (Paving Way For VR)

Today the folks at Unity have revealed a shirt film called "Adam" to demonstrate the abilities of their Unity engine. This clip is part of a longer film that'll be released (in full) by the Unity Demo ...
Variety

Video Game Engine Maker Unity Raises $400 Million as It Expands to VR

San Francisco-based video game engine maker Unity Technologies has raised a new $400 million round of funding from Silver Lake Partners, both companies announced late Wednesday. The investment values ...
TechCrunch

Unreal Engine adds full Google Daydream VR support, native Unity support coming this summer

VR developers looking to get started on readying content for Google’s new Daydream VR platform can get started today thanks to an Unreal Engine preview version (4.1.2) that adds support for the Google ...
SiliconANGLE

A guide to Google Daydream VR for developers using Unity or Android

Developers looking to work with newly announced Google VR Daydream (at Google I/O 2016) will have to wait for the next-gen of smartphones to come out with the hardware to support the virtual reality ...
Hexus

Unity 5 game engine launches globally

Unity Technologies has officially released its next-gen multiplatform 3D game engine and development tool, Unity 5, at GDC today. Mostly used for indie and mobile games, the new and most powerful ...
The Verge

Unity officially releases its new game engine: Unity 5

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Unity has released ...