Unity 6.1: performance, Web and device features, free for personal use

Unity offers a powerful alternative to Unreal Engine for artists, with some unique features and broader device support, including the Web. And while pricing caused some heated discussions a while back, the important thing to know is that students, personal users, and educators can all use Unity for free. So let’s check in with Unity, which has just branched into stable and latest-and-greatest branches with Unity 6.1. Here’s what’s new.

This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers

For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo – and he’s sharing his approach, using Ableton Live, Max for Live, MIDI, OSC, and UE.

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2025

Unreal Engine 5.5 for sound: Audio Widgets, MetaSounds news

Unreal Engine 5.5 is a major release for artists of all kinds. On the audio side, the free-to-start platform has new tools for visualizing and debugging, powerful Audio Widgets for UI interactions, and a slew of MetaSounds improvements for workflow, quality of life, and targeting different platforms. Oh, and – finally, there’s reverb.

Peter Kirn - November 13, 2024

Unreal Engine 5.1 goes wild: what’s new from foliage to generated sound

Peter Kirn - November 24, 2022

Watch Unreal Engine make low-latency visualizations, thanks to Arthur Barthur

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2021

Procedural visuals for everybody: Houdini is now free for Unreal and Unity

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2021

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