John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, at GDC 2017.
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Unity Technologies offers sneak peek at next-generation game engine

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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 announcement at an event at the Game Developers Conference 2017 in San Francisco. The move was the latest salvo in the San Francisco company’s battle with arch rival Epic Games, which has its own press event on Wednesday morning. In this competition, Epic is coming down from the high end of Triple-A games while Unity is rising from the low end of game development from mobile and lighter projects.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.