April 8, 2021
Explore Unity’s new, experimental netcode library and the underlying patterns of a multiplayer game in our small scale cooperative RPG, Boss Room
March 24, 2021
We’ve partnered with Genvid, creators of a toolset allowing you to create richly interactive livestreams, turning your viewers into participants with influence over the content being streamed.
December 3, 2020
One of Unity’s top priorities for 2021 is to expand the Unity ecosystem with a first-party multiplayer networking solution for GameObjects that is easy to set up and extend, scales to meet the needs of high-performance titles, and is seamlessly integrated into the Unity ecosystem...
September 8, 2020
Updated on 21st October to incorporate feedback from the community Changelog (blogpost & pdf):
Removed DOTS from the comparison table to avoid confusion
Adjusted Mirror’s ranking
Removed the “Best in <category>” assessment to reduce potential...
August 19, 2020
On June 8, 2018, Rob Pedrosa, Director of Operations and Services for Hi-Rez Studios felt good. Realm Royale had gone live a few days prior and everything went silky smooth.
He’d planned enough capacity for the launch and his liveops team was only dealing with minor issues. All ...
June 13, 2019
As many of you know, we put UNet into maintenance mode because we believe there is a better way forward with our new connected games stack. Since this announcement, we have learned that many of our developers need guidance about the best path for their game during this transition...
October 24, 2018
At Unite LA yesterday, we announced the first release of the FPS Sample project, a multiplayer First-Person Shooter game. You can now download the full project including both source code and assets. The project is for you to use as a source of inspiration. You can also use ...
September 12, 2018
As part of our commitment to solving challenges for connected games development, we’ve focused first on real-time multiplayer games, and we’ve learned a lot from our prior attempts to democratize this space. First and foremost, we know that in order to build the right new technol...
August 2, 2018
Through our connected games initiatives, we’re revamping how we can make networked games easier, more performant, and multiplayer-ready by default. To make these important changes, we need to start anew. That means existing multiplayer features will be gradually deprecated, with ...
June 21, 2018
At Unite Berlin, we announced a strategic alliance with Google Cloud. Together, we are building a suite of features that will help you create, run, and scale your connected games. In this post, I’ll share how we define connected games, what we have been working on with Google Clo...
June 19, 2018
We kicked off Unite Berlin today! We couldn’t be happier to finally share all of the exciting news that we’ve been working on, from our strategic alliance with Google Cloud to help you make connected games, to a preview build of our improved prefab system. Here’s your handy overv...
May 10, 2016
Apple recently announced that beginning June 1, 2016, “all apps submitted to the App Store must support IPv6-only networking.” Since many of our users publish Unity games to the App Store, we wanted to take a moment to discuss Unity’s support for IPv6-only networks. Note that thi...
