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Free games on Xbox One. Woohoo!

 

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Soon developers using Unity Pro 4 will be able to port their games to the Windows Store on PC, Windows Phone 8 and Xbox One, the Unity blog has announced.

This partnership will see Microsoft and Unity collaborating to add support for "enhanced Kinect gestures and recognition, multiplayer matchmaking, SmartGlass and cloud stuff" in Unity Pro 4 for Xbox One. If an outfit is using Unity to create a game for Microsoft Studios, then Unity tools for Xbox 360 and Xbox One will be offered gratis. Publishing games on the Windows Store will also be free.

Unity is one of the more popular multi-platform engines out there right now. In March, Unity announced it had entered a similar partnership with Sony to offer tools tailored to Sony platforms, including the PS4, and last month Unity made its mobile development toolsavailable free of charge to all indie developers.

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It should be a 3-way see-saw (they exist) with the PS4 on it too. 

Or a 4-way See-saw (they exist) with the PC on it too.

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It should be a 3-way see-saw (they exist) with the PS4 on it too. 

Or a 4-way See-saw (they exist) with the PC on it too.

From what I've read Sony hasn't tried to get Unity.

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From what I've read Sony hasn't tried to get Unity.

Did you bother reading the first post?

"Unity is one of the more popular multi-platform engines out there right now. In March, Unity announced it had entered a similar partnership with Sony to offer tools tailored to Sony platforms, including the PS4, and last month Unity made its mobile development toolsavailable free of charge to all indie developers."

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Unity is bad anyway, it's only single-threaded ._. that's gonna suck BADLY for Xbone and ps4 and pc (for amd fans)

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Unity is bad anyway, it's only single-threaded ._. that's gonna suck BADLY for Xbone and ps4 and pc (for amd fans)

What would happen if the developer made the software optimized for multi-thread or Microsoft added a patch to Xbox one and Windows 8.1 to where not just single-threaded apps could be written but, multi-threaded apps can be written.

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What would happen if the developer made the software optimized for multi-thread or Microsoft added a patch to Xbox one and Windows 8.1 to where not just single-threaded apps could be written but, multi-threaded apps can be written.

Unity 4.0 needs multi-threaded support or I will never use it

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i did't known single threaded games existed still lol

Borderlands 2 is a single threaded game.

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