Sony opens public preview of Unity for PlayStation Mobile development

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that starting today, a public preview of Unity for PlayStation Mobile will be made available.

The service is a dedicated development environment similar to the beta version available to a select number of developers.

The public preview of "Unity for PSM" is a "fully integrated solution of Unity Technologies," and is optimized for the creation of PSM content for PlayStation Vita.

Furthermore, the PS Mobile Developer Program will expand to an additional 12 countries, and PlayStation Store for PSM will launch in four new countries.

"With these expansions, SCE will offer support to a wider range of developers in a total of 32 countries and regions, and deliver new PSM content for PS Vita in 22 countries," said the firm.

SCE will continue to make improvements to the beta and public preview versions with an official version coming this summer. No extra charges will incur if developers already own licenses for the free version of Unity or Unity Pro and the service allows for "easy porting" of games created for iPhone, iPad, and Android for PS mobile and PS Vita users.

The PSM Developer Program will expand to an additional 12 countries starting May 29 and will soon be available in Australia, Brazil, Columbia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, and Thailand.

It will launch in Austria, India, Poland and Switzerland beginning June 25.