Unity Technologies, who produce development tools for 3D web and desktop games, have announced they intend to create an iPhone version of their Unity engine, opening up possibilities of 3D console-quality titles on the Apple handset. 

“The Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates visually rich, engaging 3D game play, whether it’s on a traditional desktop, or on the Web at major gaming sites like shockwave.com, or now on the world’s leading mobile device – the iPhone … With support of the iPhone platform, the Unity engine becomes platform agnostic and significantly expands the reach and capabilities of the tool. As a fully supported deployment platform, developers can now use Unity to drive development of the best games to iPhone’s massive mobile market and beyond” Unity Technologies statement 

However there are no details of how Unity intends to use (or adapt) the official iPhone SDK to produce its own development platform; they are now accepting applications for their beta development program for the cellphone, but there’s also no timescale discussed for when the game software will become available.

[via iPhone Atlas]