Unity Leaps To 250,000 Licensees

Unity's userbase has skyrocketed from 13,000 to 250,000 licensees year over year, the engine provider announced today — with over 35 million users having downloaded Unity's free Web Player to date.

The recent release of Unity 3 helped drive some of this accelerated growth. Says CEO David Helgason: "We bet on democratization of technology, and then upped the ante with a truly free license. Our growth proves how valuable enabling technologies are and how relevant 3D is to gaming as well as marketing, training, visualization and simulation."