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MegaByte Punch, amazing Beat’em’up made with Unity Free.

Discovered this awesome title via twitter originally, check out their site and play the demo via their web player. I love the style and feel of this game – an awesome Smash Bros / Sonic feel to it – hey and the fact it was made with only Unity free version is even cooler! http://megabytepunch.reptile-games.com/

Rage Pixel, 2D solution for Unity, is FREE!

This solution for old school pixel based game development has been in the works for a little while, but suddenly, the updated forum post shows it to be released, and best of all, free! From the maker of Rage spline, its sure to be a stunning piece of work!

New Character Animation technology previewed at GDC

At GDC 2012 in San Francisco, Unity Technologies are showing off the amazing character animation technology they are working on for a future version of the software. Being demonstrated by Robert Lanciault and Pierre-Paul Giroux, the team working on the project are based in Canada, and were acquired in 2011 to build their technology into the engine.

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…