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Game Engine

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Monday, December 16th, 2024

Big update to the photogrammetry app adds USD export and new options aimed at games and VFX. Free to indie artists and studios.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

Long-awaited major release of the game engine ships. Check out its new features, new release schedule, and new pricing and licensing.

Friday, October 18th, 2024

Grab the files for the lead character and environment from the beautiful real-time demo for the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6.

Friday, October 18th, 2024

Tree-generation software gets new tools for pruning trees and adding 3D vines. Now available as a single edition for games and VFX.

Monday, September 30th, 2024

Discover how the new graphics and simulation features in Unity 6 were used to create the demo, which runs in real time on a GeForce 4090 GPU.

Friday, September 20th, 2024

Cost of Unity Pro subscriptions to rise by 8% next year, and Unity Enterprise by 25%. Free Unity Personal subscriptions unaffected.

Friday, September 13th, 2024