The Verge

Unity has eliminated its controversial runtime fee

A year to the day since the announcement, and after several revisions and community backlash, Unity is ending its unpopular pricing scheme. A year to the day since the announcement, and after several ...
SpaceNews

Virgin Galactic conducts final VSS Unity commercial suborbital spaceflight

VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, takes off from Spaceport America June 8 on the Galactic 07 suborbital spaceflight. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated 6:15 p.m. Eastern with ...
Wired

Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle

On September 12, Unity announced that beginning January 1, 2024, its pricing for developers would include a “Runtime Fee,” a new 20-cent charge to be levied every time a player installed a game after ...
Polygon

Unity walks back some of its widely criticized pricing updates

After two weeks of chaos, Unity Create president Marc Whitten has a message: “I’m sorry.” Whitten’s apology, and a revised pricing policy, comes after a tumultuous period for the company, as game ...
The Financial Times

SoftBank leads Mapbox fundraising as it pushes into AI

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SoftBank is leading a $280mn funding round in US location-mapping company Mapbox, as the Japanese ...
GeekWire

Here’s why so many video game developers are suddenly abandoning the Unity engine

The Unity engine powers many PC/console games and the vast majority of mobile games available on the market today. (Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer ...
Ars Technica

Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community

For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.
The Verge

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off

Developers will be charged a flat rate based on how many times their game is installed, no matter if that install is attached to a sale. Developers will be charged a flat rate based on how many times ...
Forbes

The Right Direction: How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers To Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...
GitHub

Do custom Map IDs really work in Mapbox SDK for Unity?

I'm totally newbie to Mapbox SDK for Unity so I apologise if my question seems silly. But when I put my own Map IDs (from any of my custom tilesets made in Mapbox Studio) to VectorTileFactory script ...
GitHub

Failed to load 'Assets/Mapbox/Core/Plugins/sqlite/x64/sqlite3.dll

I am unable to develop with Unity 2017.1.1f1 and Mapbox SDK 1.2 on a Win10 OS x64 with Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. I later want to deploy the app to a Hololens (x86). If I start a completly ...