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Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

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

Updated: See the new tools due in the game engine in 2025, including updates to shading, rendering, animation and world building.

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

Read our pick of the new features in the latest version of Unity, from improvements to rendering to new generative AI animation tools.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

Discover the key features in the new stable version of Unity, including better water, hair, skin and lens flares.

Thursday, July 6th, 2023

Check out the key features for CG artists in the game engine's new Long Term Support release, including the new water system.

Friday, June 2nd, 2023

Edit characters exported from Character Creator or iClone in the Unity Editor with this handy plugin.

Thursday, January 5th, 2023

See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.

Friday, December 9th, 2022

See Unity's new tools for material variants and splines, and updates to 2D art and virtual production.

Friday, May 13th, 2022

Photorealistic two-minute real-time Unity short showcases new skin and hair simulation technologies.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022

See the key changes to the game engine for non-programmers, from visual scripting to better rendering.

Monday, March 29th, 2021

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

Monday, December 21st, 2020