If you’ve been hiding under a rock the past year, you probably haven’t heard of the VR headset that is sweeping the tech and game industry right now – the Occulus Rift. In the past few months, dev kits have been arriving on desks around the globe, and some amazing projects are emerging..
Legendary Ultima creator Richard Garriott, aka ‘Lord British’ makes his return to RPG creation with Shroud of the Avatar, and is blazing his way through a $1m Kickstarter to fund it.
At the time of writing, Garriott’s firm ‘Portalarium’ have reached $650,000 from over 10,000 backers!
Amazing to watch the growth of Unity usage the past few years, from small indie games to a point at which large industry stalwarts like Sega are making use of Unity to deliver awesome results. Sonic Dash is the game in question…
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 [...]
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.
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.
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…
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!
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. [...]
Frustrated at work? feel like laying ‘the smackdown’ upon everyone around you in a Falling Down style? Why not avoid prison and take your anger out in BigPoint’s latest browser brawler “Ruined” – made in Unity – naturally…
The winner of the Unity 3D Kongregate contest is crowned with the very awesome Antimatiere. Its a game that’s a little hard to describe but on the face of it, its a game of moving parts of your environment in order to navigate around and solve puzzles. Think of it as kind of a mix between Portal and some kind of Lucasarts classic – it made me think of what Day of the Tentacle would be like with a portal gun, take it for a spin, and make sure you don’t get caught up with the slight confusion of using keys to navigate the menu as I did first time around!
One of the many heralded popular uses of Unity’s browser platform has been the inevitable leap to a browser based incarnation of the popular multiplayer first person shooter genre. This is now becoming a reality thanks to Photon games multiplayer plugin, and new title Be Gone.
This awesome looking new MMORPG is not quite what you’d expect from the genre. More Destruction Derby meets Mad Max than World of Warcraft, developer Puncher’s Impact have pulled out all the stops.
This very awesome looking game, made in Unity, is available to download and play right now in its beta form.
