Unity Technologies has dropped the $200 fee for its Unity Indie platform and replaced it with a free license named Unity.
“Unity Technologies has always believed that the best technology and products should be made available to all developers. We want to accelerate the availability of high quality interactive content,” said CEO David Helgason.
At the same time the company announced a number of updates to Unity 2.6 and confirmed that the Unity Pro license will remain priced at $1500.
Unity says that its suite of products for web, PC, Mac, Wii and iPhone is used by more than 10,000 developers worldwide. Helgason also told Gamasutra that the company is working on a version of the Unity platform for the Xbox 360.
“We do Nintendo Wii, and there are a handful of titles both disc-based and download-based. We're also announcing that we're going to Xbox 360 as well. We're excited about consoles, but we're more excited about mobile and the browser. The really big opportunities are mobile and the web.”
Earlier this week Unity said that it had secured $5.5 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital. It also included investment from Atari CEO David Gardner.