Unity—a popular cross-platform game engine that powers titles like Hollow Knight and Pokémon Go— announced that a new Runtime Fee would take effect on January 1, 2024.

However, with the release of a new tech demo, titled Time Ghost, Unity is aiming to prove that its next-gen engine, Unity 6, is just as good as any of them.

Unity plans to add a 'Runtime Fee', meaning each time a game is downloaded, the developer of that game is charged. The fee will only be introduced once a game reaches a certain level of success ...

The new Runtime Fee, announced in a September 12 Unity blog, is based on the number of installations a game built with the Unity engine receives, as well as the revenue it generates. Though it won ...

UPDATE Sept. 20, 2023: Terraria developer Re-Logic has also thrown its support against Unity's policy changes, committing to donating $100,000 to two emerging game engines, and an additional ...

Popular game engine Unity announced a “Runtime Fee” policy on Sept. 12 that, starting Jan. 1, would incur a fee upon developers each time a game utilizing Unity was downloaded.