Unity, the game engine used in popular titles like Cuphead, Fall Guys, and Among Us, has apologized for the “confusion and angst” caused by a newly announced fee. On September 12, the company released ...

Unity has unveiled its planned changes to the controversial Runtime Fee policy that would charge developers fees on a per-install basis. Unity Create president Marc Whitten detailed the changes in a ...

Kyle Thomas is a writer and game designer who has worked in and around the gaming industry for over five years. Kyle is currently working in the indie game sector as a Narrative Designer for a small ...

A year ago, Unity Technologies created a huge problem for itself and the developers who use its game engine: It introduced a near-universally hated new fee tied to a developer’s game installs. While ...

Their planned introduction of a new Unity Runtime Fee - effectively charging Unity users a new per-install $0.20 for each user - has taken it's tens of thousands of users by surprise and gone down ...

Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg has addressed the runtime fee controversy and why it took the firm a year to reverse its decision. Speaking at GamesBeat Next 2024 in October, Bromberg said tackling the ...

A hot potato: Unity's shocking reveal of its new "Runtime Fee" still baffles the gaming world. A mix of confusion, rage, and uncertainty is spreading throughout the internet, and the latest update to ...

The moment is finally here. After promising a windback of their unpopular planned fee restructuring back on September 18 here, and co-founder David Helgason promising as much in his “We fucked up” ...

TL;DR: As predicted, Unity has changed course on its Unity Runtime Fee after severe backlash from the community and weeks of bad press. It reformulated the maligned monetization plan in a way that ...

The makers of Unity, one of the most popular video game engines, announced a new “Unity Runtime Fee” that is set to take effect next year. Game developers aren’t taking kindly to the announcement as ...