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Through its official blog, Unity have revealed that they have partnered with celebrated game designer Rob Pardo, former Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard Entertainment, to tour the globe and visit members of Unity’s developer community as a Creative Advisor. Pardo will visit developers in North America, Europe, and Asia to discuss creative process, game design, industry trends, and keys to making successful games. In addition to visiting individual studios, Pardo will also make appearances at select local Unity community developer groups to share observations and discuss the industry.

Unity Technologies today released the next installment of their Unity Developer Profile series, which showcase developers that build their games with the powerful Unity development platform. The latest Unity Developer Profile, focuses on Nival a highly successful game developer and publisher, founded by games industry veteran Sergey Orlovskiy, who currently serves as the company’s CEO.

Unity Technologies has begun the Call for Speakers, and opened up super early-bird registrations, for Unite Europe 2015. The conference will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the Westergasfabriek venue from June 24-25, with a Unity Training Day on June 23. Speaking submissions will be accepted through April 25.

Two days ago at the Unity special event during GDC 2015 in San Francisco, Unity announced that Unity 5 is now available with the launch of Unity 5 Professional Edition and Unity 5 Personal Edition.

Unity Technologies today announced the immediate availability of Unity 5, the next generation of the award-winning Unity multiplatform engine and development tools. The most powerful version of Unity to date includes massive graphics improvements and an expanded editor feature set that gives developers everywhere the potential to create incredibly beautiful and innovative gaming experiences across 21 platforms. Additionally, Unity announced the availability of Unity Cloud Build, which enables developers to increase productivity by leveraging the power of cloud computing in order to remain focused on game development.

Unity Technologies today released a series of five development diaries including videos, podcasts and opinion features to showcase how Seattle-based developer Camouflaj took their critically acclaimed game République and fully remastered the game in Unity 5 for today’s launch of République Remastered on PC and Mac.

Crossy Road is an endless arcade hopper available on the App Store that was released on November 20th. Hipster Whale has already grossed over a million dollars from using Unity Ads in the iOS version of the game alone. Andy Sum and Matt Hall met in October 2013 during a monetization talk at a conference and after doodling a whale on their notes, started talking game ideas. Inspired by Froggy and Flappy Bird, as well as Disco Zoo and Fez, Crossy Road was a twelve-week project. The Australian duo collaborated remotely the whole time.

Unity Technologies is proud to announce that the company’s Asset Store is expected to exceed one million users by the end of the year and celebrates its fourth birthday with the Birthday Bonanza Madness Sale. Today, it offers more than 15,000 content packages and apps – available from nearly 3,800 creators – to developers, delivering exciting content packages for 2D and 3D models, plus other tools and services such as animation, audio, editor extensions, shaders, scripting, textures, and materials.

Unity 5 brings together an extraordinary collection of new features. Everyone from individuals to enterprise-size teams will be able to create content that looks and sounds significantly sharper and more polished compared to what was possible in earlier versions of the engine. There are major advancements on performance and scripting, and new platform support.

Unity Technologies announced today that Co-founder David Helgason has stepped back from his role as CEO and welcomed John Riccitiello, former CEO of Electronic Arts, into the position. Helgason will continue at Unity as Executive Vice President in charge of strategy and communications.

Aujourd’hui, Unity Technologies diffuse un nouvel épisode des portraits vidéos dédié aux développeurs utilisant Unity. Cette série de documentaires révèle l’envers du décor de la conception de jeux vidéo réalisés grâce à la puissante plateforme de développement qu’est Unity. Ce portrait vidéo retrace l’historique du studio, notamment comment le studio est lié à Unity depuis la création. La vidéo détaille également comment Unity a été utilisé dans le design de Press Play où les mécaniques de gameplay ont une place centrale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBJEUabi1s