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Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.

Monday, December 21st, 2020

See the new tools for games artists due in Unity 2020 LTS, 2021.1 and 2021.2 - plus a bonus for anyone with a free Personal subscription.

Friday, August 14th, 2020

Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2020

Unity 2019.3 ships

Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

See the latest Unity demo short, showcasing advances in real-time shading for hair, eyes and cloth.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2020

Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3

Friday, September 27th, 2019

Check out our handy run-down of the new simulation, graphics and AR tools announced at this week's Unity user event.

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

Unity 2019.2 ships

Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

New tech demo is a 'first attempt' at rendering photorealistic real-time characters in the game engine.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

Get Unity Technologies' new free library of real-world automotive materials, from chrome to car paint.

Monday, February 11th, 2019

See Unity's new framework for authoring complex GPU-driven FX and nifty 'synthetic director' system.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018