Unity strives to be the best game engine and much, much more
Gamescom may have only just finished, but there’s another tentpole developer event that’s fast approaching.
Unite, an annual celebration of Unity’s game developer community, returns to Amsterdam this November, taking place as a physical event for the first time since 2019.
“We're just really excited to get everybody back together,” says the president of Unity’s Create division Marc Whitten. “Unite is always this incredible opportunity to get some of our best and most passionate developers together with our teams… It's a jam-packed event with really great talks exploring what’s coming down our pipeline.”
At Unite 2023, Unity will show developers how it is bolstering its core product while still innovating for the future. Over the last year, it strengthened its multiplayer services to support smooth, high-concurrency, connected experiences; it launched the 2022 LTS which promises maximum stability and performance; and recently Unity announced a new suite of AI tools in closed beta that it hopes will revolutionize game content creation.
Starting with multiplayer, the demand for connected gaming experiences has never been greater, and Unity has been focused on delivering a suite of solutions to support the creation of multiplayer games spanning all genres and platforms - from networking stacks to dedicated hosting, friends list management and in-game voice chat.
Unity’s Game Server Hosting, in particular, is very popular and has been adopted by some of the biggest games in the world, such as Apex Legends and Among Us. It boasts robust high-concurrency servers with 99 percent uptime.
As such, it’s a part of Unity’s offering that receives a great deal of attention.
“We've really been focused on the self-serve feature
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