Unity3d Version 5.2 now with Windows UWP and Visual Studio Support

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Today is an exciting day for cross platform game developers using Unity3d.com

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Unity 5.2 brings you Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) build options.

A UWP app can run on any Windows-based device, including Windows Phones, XboxOne, and Windows 10 PC and Tablet!

see more details on game development on Windows 10 at  https://dev.windows.com/en-us/games and if your interested in cross play for your title between Xbox and PC see https://www.xbox.com/id

Native Visual Studio Integration

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Unity 5.2 comes with a much tighter Visual Studio integration for a vastly improved coding and debugging experience on Windows machines.

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The Unity installer will offer to install Visual Studio Community 2015 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity (formerly known as UnityVS). Everything just works out of the box!

The full low-down

Check out the Unity 5.2 Release Notes to find out what else is new. We’ve added multiscene lightmap baking, support for 3ds Max’s biped rig, Occlusion Culling improvements and more…