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Unity Technologies is giving away its basic mobile development tools to independent and small studios, as part of its drive to democratise the development process.

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Check out Drop, a neat little browser-based game from Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson.

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Unity announced today that it will stop selling Flash deployment licenses but will continue support for Flash customer for the rest of the current cycle.

The news was posted on the Unity blog, courtesy of Shack News, and states the decision is due to Adobe not being committed to future Flash development, saying “We don’t see Adobe being firmly committed to the future development of Flash. This is evidenced by the cancellation of Flash Player Next, the instability of recent Flash Player versions and by Adobe’s workforce moving on to work on other projects. By introducing, and then abandoning, a revenue sharing model, Adobe eroded developers’ (and our) trust in Flash as a dependable, continuously improving platform.”

Adding to that, Unity states that its own Unity Web Player has seen unprecedented growth in recent months, already installed on over 200M computers and by 1/3 of all Facebook gamers.

Unity co-founder Nicholas Francis, who formed Framebunker, a mobile game development studio, is working on a sci-fi game called Static Sky. Francis announced his departure from the firm back in February, and he was joined by Unity’s former creative director, Charles Hinshaw. The studio’s philosophy is to create “unforgettable experiences that tablet gamers deserve,” and the firm will put this manifesto to the test when it releases Static Sky in early 2014. Thanks, GI International.

The Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter page has been updated with a video, which shows a 3D character on pre-rendered 2D background. It’s basically a technology test using Unity, and is of the screenshots released yesterday. With three days to go, the Kickstarter has hit $3,336,869 thanks to 61,056 backers. If you want Chris Avellone on board, you better start tossing some money at it.

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GDC 2013 is now under-way in San Francisco and it’s already produced some very interesting news, including a heavy focus on next-gen and indie chatter. Dave Cook recaps.

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Oculus Rift development kits will come with free Unreal Development Kits as well, courtesy of Epic Games.

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Oculus has teamed up with Unity to give all developers that buy a dev kit for the anticipated VR headset device a free, four-month Unity Pro license trial.

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Sony and Unity have signed a strategic agreement delivering the popular Unity engine to a variety of Sony platforms.

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Unity 4.2 will come with functionality that one can only assume some folks were clamoring for: the ability to create apps for the Windows Store in Windows 8 and RT.
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Nicholas Francis, co-founder of Unity, has quit the company to start his own gaming adventure.

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The increasingly popular Unity engine is headed to BlackBerry 10, the smartphone developer’s latest OS and the heart of upcoming PlayBook tablets. BlackBerry 10 support will be an optional add-on for Unity’s development kit, and is currently under development with a beta expected in northern spring ahead of a summer release. Unity has over 1.5 million developers on board its ultra-portable engine, and BlackBerry acknowledge the importance of making games available in order to drive mobile hardware sales.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has said the console makers has plans to expand developer capabilities in future hardware with tech such as Unity, JavaScript and HTML5.

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InXile has put out a cattle call for 3D models for Wasteland 2; anybody can submit a design and be paid and credited for their work.

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Unity is at the centre of an indie development revolution. VG247′s Dave Cook speaks with CEO David Helgason about empowering indies, and the significance of Unity on Wii U.

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Wii U will support the Unity platform, and the company’s CEO David Helgason has explained to VG247 that the engine will be brought in-house at Nintendo for all of its first-party studios to use, as well as its third-party partners. Helgason has also explained that the deal will give the Unity community free reign to develop titles for Wii U.

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Wasteland 2′s Brian Fargo has discussed the game’s development progress with VG247, stating that as far as the studio was concerned, Unity was the only choice.

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Ultra-portable engine tech Unity is head over heels in love with the Wii U, but not so much its portable cousin.

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Wii U developers will receive a free copy of Unity, thanks to a deal between the engine tech company and Nintendo.

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Unity CEO David Helgas has revealed that developing the Unity engine isn’t the company’s sole focus.

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