How Unity convinced investors it’s worth $2.6 billion
From what we hear, a lot of investors in Silicon Valley wanted to get in on Unity Technologies’ $400 million funding round. Unity received...
Game engine maker Unity raises $400 million in private equity from Silver Lake
Game engine maker Unity Technologies isn’t hurting for money. The company has raised $400 million in private equity from Silver Lake, according Unity CEO...
Amazon bets big on gaming with high-profile hires
Amazon clearly has ambitions in the high end of the game business. Today, it announced that Command & Conquer veteran Louis Castle has become...
Unity’s quest to make the lives of game developers easier
Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello threw out some impressive numbers last week at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. He...
Game engine CEOs talk past each other when it comes to statistics
Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. And so when you ask which...
Unity Technologies offers sneak peek at next-generation game engine
Unity Technologies showed game developers an early peek at Unity 2017, the next-generation game engine coming in April. Unity CEO John Riccitiello made the...
Unity-based games saw 16 billion downloads in 2016
Unity Technologies has a wide reach for its game engine, which designers use to make games for every platform. In 2016, games based on Unity...
Why Unity’s John Riccitiello loves mobile ads and fears VR’s gap of disappointment
At Unity Technologies, chief executive John Riccitiello sees a sea of games and game startups streaming through doors. Unity was founded in 2003 to...
Unity chief John Riccitiello: It’s ‘not enough’ to want to be a game startup CEO
If you talk to people who need money to make a game or those who invest in gaming, you’ll repeatedly hear how difficult it...
Microsoft game chief Phil Spencer on openness, HoloLens, and Xbox 1.5
Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft’s commitment to an open...