Unity Technologies and SHFL entertainment Enter St

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2013) - Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, today announced a multi-year strategic relationship with SHFL entertainment, an S&P Smallcap 600 gaming supply company, specializing in providing casino customers with improved profitability, productivity and security.

With the Unity engine, SHFL entertainment will expand its popular cutting-edge gaming entertainment content through Electronic Gaming Machines, which include traditional video slot machines, and iGaming, which features online versions of SHFL's table games, social gaming, and mobile applications. Unity, used by slot manufacturers and online gambling companies around the world to create some of the most exciting and compelling interactive gambling content, is one of the most widely adopted middleware solutions for development in the gambling industry. The Unity developer community is more than 1.5 million developers strong and includes thousands of game studios across the world, both large and small. Unity is an excellent solution for gambling companies (land-based, online & mobile) looking to work with development houses already familiar with the powerful, deep, and efficient development tools.

"Technology is at the heart of all we do and SHFL entertainment is excited to begin our work and collaboration with Unity Technologies," said Lou Castle, Chief Strategy Officer for SHFL entertainment. "Our product innovation, superior quality, and service make gaming more fun for players and more profitable for operators. We believe our work with the Unity engine will help us deliver this value even broader."

Unity is known for its efficient design, enabling wild creativity while keeping development cycles and costs down. In-editor play testing allows for lightning fast iteration and the excellent art pipeline allows art assets to be saved from any popular art tool (Photoshop, Maya, Modo, and more) and affect change to every instance of that asset across the project automatically.

About Unity Technologies Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, a flexible and high-performance development platform used to make creative and intelligent interactive 3D and 2D experiences. The "author once, deploy everywhere" capability ensures developers can publish to all of the most popular platforms. Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of 1.5 million developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. To remain at the forefront of innovation, Unity Technologies tirelessly re-invests in its award-winning 3D development tools and its democratization initiatives, such as the Asset Store digital content marketplace and Union game distribution service. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit: http://unity3d.com .

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