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Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials Book Out Now!

IT IS DONE! After a few technical hitches at the publishing stage, my new book is ready and out now. If you’re interested in learning game development with Unity (or Unity 3D, as its often mis-called!) then I hope you’ll take a look at my book to get yourself rolling. You can grab it from Amazon, amongst other places online, and its available in print, ebook and kindle.

BAFTA and Abertay combine to produce Unity schools bundle

This excellent package by Dundee’s Abertay University and sponsored by BAFTA is an excellent way to get young children interested in game development at school…

Unity 3.x Development Essentials Pre-Order

Okay folks so slightly biased post coming up just now! I’ve been slaving away over the past … few.. many months to rewrite my Unity book largely from scratch, and finally its nearly done and available to pre-order from Amazon and Packt publishing…..

Warp Dash for iOS

Spotted this awesome looking and playing iOS game on the Unity forums – check it out! its kind of a mix between Canabalt and wipeout – a survival racer with a stunning japanese neo futuristic art style! Its made by Muskedunder Interactive and is out now on the itunes app store, but don’t take my [...]

LUUG London Unity Usergroup 4 talks

For those of you not in London for the Unity usergroup meets there, Unity have posted the talks on their blog – the meetup v4 ‘All your Unity are belong to us’ featured talks by Jasper Stocker, Quickfingers and Richard Fine, without further ado, here are the videos…

Unity Flash Export

Today Unity Technologies’ Lucas Meijer unveiled probably the most hotly awaited Unity feature in recent years – Flash support. In a short sneak peek video, Meijer shows off the already impressive ShadowGun, by Madfinger games – published from Unity to Flash.

UNITY 3.4 Released!

In yet another massive upgrade, Unity Technologies present to the world Unity version 3.4. With masses of improvements listed on the download page, I won’t go into detail except to say you should go get it right now!

Pirates of New Horizons

Exit Strategy Entertainment – an awesome team of commercial game development pedigree (ex-IO, Crytek to name but two) present this awesome 3D platformer. Made in Unity, Pirates of New Horizons is the first title under ESE’s belt and you can see straight away that the experience of this team really shines through in the quality of the game.

Fotonica : Free Running FPS Action

This stunning game comes from the Rez! school of wireframe / simple 3D beauty. Evoking bygone wireframe retro classics such as Battlezone too, this takes that art style and introduces an incredible first person free running mechanic that blends Mirror’s edge and Canabalt into a eye blistering experience.

Urgent! Support Robots Love Ice Cream!

I’m asking you to support an awesome project by Addo Games, aka Burton and Becca Posey – who have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help them finish this innovative iPad game they’re creating in Unity.

D.A.R.K. by GameLab

This awesome looking dual stick shooter from Chillingo games is coming soon to iOS devices the app store, take a look at the trailer below. This game reminds me of the excellent Loaded on the first playstation…

Cordy for Android / Xperia Play

We’ve mentioned Cordy on this site before whilst it was in development, and now the game has evolved into this awesome looking 2.5D.. 3D.. on rails.. platform puzzle.. extravaganza! Take a look at the trailer, then get it for your Android device or Xperia Play!

ShadowGun iOS

This awesome game coming from Madfinger games is showing off some of the latest in development tech from Unity Technologies. Using Light Probes to create fast efficient dynamic lighting, Shadowgun gives an awesome 60fps third person shooter experience on the iPad 2, and is touted to run at 30fps on the iPhone 4 and 3GS. [...]

Pulse by Cipher Prime

And now for something completely different… a beat matching.. touch based.. wait.. music puzzle.. okay so I can’t really define this game to a satisfactory standard of sentence writing, so why not just take a look at this trailer for a very beautiful looking iPad music game…