It's pretty simple on paper. From January 1 2024 any game that is using the Unity Engine will be paying a fee to Unity for every install on a new device. There’s a complex system of tiers and ways to ...

For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.

Last month, Unity shot itself in the foot by announcing a policy change, since revoked, that could’ve charged game developers a “Runtime Fee” for every time their game was installed on an end user’s ...

Unity has made major changes to the per-install Runtime Fee program it announced last week and made apologies for a policy that united large swathes of the game development community in anger. In a ...