As some of you may know I teach Unity as part of my job and part of my recent research has been focused on developing a new method of teaching Unity to beginners. Having collaborated with a number of other Unity tutors worldwide in critiquing my previous approach to teaching, I have developed a new [...]

More awesome new features presented prior to the release of the new Unity version 3.0 – this time a presentation by me on the Cloth Physics features and a presentation by Samantha Kalman on the awesome new Beast powered lightmapping tools. Watch the videos below, then go share them around the web, this stuff rocks! [...]

Yet another triumph for Unity development in the form of more official commercial releases, this time, a very awesome game for the new Rodriguez produced Predators. A nice hack and slack game dynamic puts you in control of the Predators themselves, hunting the team that you’ve summoned to your home world. The game has already [...]

IF you’re one of those people who’ve stuck with the sprawling virtual world of Second Life the past few years, you may be interested to hear that London based developer Rezzable have come up with something you might like. Utilising OpenSim, an open source client which can interpret Second Life assets, Rezzable have used Unity [...]

Learn Unity 3D’s own Will Goldstone previews some more of the new features in Unity 3.0. This time its audio, and you’ll get a sneak peek at the new Scene Audio Preview feature, Custom Rolloff Curves, Audio Reverb Zones, Audio Effects and Mod file support. Watch it embedded below or go video on vimeo here

ActiveDen, part of the fantastic Envato network, have opened up their asset selling portal to assets for Unity developers. If you’re familiar with the Tuts sites (PSDTuts.com, Nettuts.com and so on then you’ll already have seen the professional quality of the Envato network at play already. Now with the chance to sell your assets you’ll [...]

A while back we showcased HelloEnjoy’s (Carlos Ulloa) Mini driving Unity showcase – Now as predicted a commercial car manufacturer – Peugeot to be precise – has picked up on this and commissioned Carlos & co to make just such a thing for their new model, the RCZ. Take a look and take it for [...]

CNN are using Unity to visual the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Allowing its readers to look at the surface or submerge to the seabed and look at what is happening, it is fascinating to see Unity being used in a non-gaming context. Whilst this is certainly going to be great for Unity being picked up [...]

Stumbled across this fantastic little platformer from SilverTree media. Clearly influenced by games like Little Big Planet, this is definitely one of the slickest Unity presentations I’ve seen on the web of late, great work! Go have some fun here – http://www.cordythegame.com/ And check out SilverTree here – http://www.silvertreemedia.com/

Found some fantastic looking tutorials on painting textures for games by the very talented Sky at http://www.smileybones.com/, go take a look and enjoy the gorgeous artwork, and handy tutorials, cheers!