The Unity website announces the launch of Unity 5, the latest version of this multi-platform game engine, offering a free Personal Edition and a Professional Edition for $75.00 per month. Word is: "Unity 5 is the new edition of the best development platform for creating 2D/3D games and interactive experiences. Unity 5 brings you awesome new artistic power. Improved efficiency makes the hard work smoother and more fun, and with the industry’s most comprehensive multiplatform support, you can now launch your game on 21 platforms." Here's a feature list:

Unity 5.0 is our biggest and boldest release ever. Powerful new features in Unity 5 include:

• The Physically-based Standard Shader to make your materials look consistent in any lighting environment, cross platform.
• Real-time Global Illumination, built on Geomerics Enlighten technology.
• The Audio Mixer, to massively improve audio in your game.
• HDR Reflection Probes to enhance visual fidelity.
• PhysX 3.3 to bring massive performance improvements to 3D physics.
• Major updates to the animation system.
• WebGL preview.

And of course, many more new features and updates. Keep reading to learn more.