Unity 5 Announced at GDC 2014, Pre-Order Begins

Unity Technologies unveils Unity 5, the next generation of the award-winning Unity multiplatform engine and development tools, during its Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Unity 5 brings a wealth of new capabilities and features enabling all developers, from the smallest indie teams to the largest studios, to create amazing games and interactive experiences, and painlessly deploy them to almost any platform. Unity 5 is available for pre-order from the Unity Store and includes access to Unity 4 and all its remaining updates. …

Unity Technologies to Acquire Applifier to Bring Everyplay Social Gaming Community and GameAds Video Ads to Unity

Unity Technologies, creators of the Unity multiplatform engine and development tools, announced that it will acquire Applifier, one of the world’s largest and most successful mobile game service providers. The acquisition will see Everyplay, the pioneering game replay sharing and community service, integrated into the Unity development platform. The GameAds video advertising network will complement the free cross-promotion network currently in development for Unity Cloud. …

MediaBrix Delivers the Emotional Targeting In-Game Advertising SDK Optimized for Intel® Architecture

Collaboration With Intel Provides a Scalable Monetization Option for Android App and Game Developers — Such as Vector Unit — and Features Immersive Ads From Top Brands

MediaBrix, the leading advertising and services platform for social and mobile games, today announces it is extending its proprietary emotional targeting and Breakthrough Moments™ (BTMs) technology as an in-game ad platform that natively supports Intel® Architecture. Through this extension, Android app and game developers will have support to run rich media, video and other innovative advertising formats on mobile devices and tablets based on Intel® Architecture. Intel’s latest platform empowers developers to build games with lower power consumption and faster 64 bit processing, which has triple the memory, twice the average performance and four times the input-output bandwidth of the previous generation of Intel processors. The chip makes games look better, run smoother and load faster on Intel processors and devices so people can play sleeker games for longer intervals of time. What’s more, MediaBrix provides Intel developers with a comprehensive ad solution for free-to-play games (F2P) monetization and serves immersive advertising from Fortune 500 brands. …

Unite 2014 in Seattle, Regional Unite and Bootcamps Announced

Unity Technologies is happy to announce that Unite 2014, its eighth annual developer conference, will be held from August 20-22, 2014 at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington, home of one of the world’s largest game and technology development communities. After incredible success in 2013, Unity Technologies is also pleased to announce the continued growth of its Unite and Unite Bootcamp program of events to include stops in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil with additional events to be announced later in 2014. …

January 2014

Re/Code – January 29, 2014
Unity CEO Cites Big Numbers on Mobile, Facebook
By Eric Johnson

TechChrunch – January 15, 2014
Unity Developers Can Now Build Games For Sony’s PlayStation Vita
By Greg Kumparak

Polygon – January 15, 2014
Unity 4.3 adding PS Vita support
By Dave Tach

PC World – January 15, 2014
Unity adds PlayStation Vita to cross-platform development suite
By Mikael Ricknäs

PC Magazine – January 15, 2014 – January 15, 2014
Unity Game Engine Now Supports Sony PlayStation Vita
By Stephanie Mlot

Joystiq – January 15, 2014
Unity engine comes to Vita with full feature set in tow
By Earnest Cavalli

Gameranx – January 15, 2014
Unity 4.3 Adds PlayStation Vita Support
By Stephan Daly

Gamasutra – January 15, 2014
Unity support comes to the PS Vita
By Mike Rose

Engadget – January 15, 2014
One of gaming’s most-used engines arrives today on PlayStation Vita
By Ben Gilbert

VentureBeat – January 15, 2014
Unity game development engine now supports Vita — brings total to 13 platforms
By Jared Mosley

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