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Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014 available, bringing new characters, physics and more

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 21st, 2013)

Poser has come a long way from the last time I used it, right around version 4. We're now at 10 for the basic edition (retail US$299.99) and Poser Pro 2014 (retail $499.99) has become a powerful animation tool in its own right. I got to look at some of the new features rolling out today and they ...

360iDev: Designing iPad specific (and iPad-supported) games

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2011)

Developer Gareth Jenkins's talk at 360iDev this week in Denver was about designing games specifically for the iPad. He made the distinction early on about two reasons you would design games (or apps) for the iPad. First, they're either iPad-supported, such as a game you designed elsewhere but ...

9-year-old hangs with PopCap, creates iOS game via Make A Wish Foundation

by Chris Ward (May 4th, 2011)

When you're 9 years old you dream of plenty of things. Thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation, Owain Weinert's dream came true when he got to visit PopCap Games and design his very own video game. Owain's been diagnosed with pre-B Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia and has spent several weeks working ...

WWDC Video: Unity 2.0 sneak peek

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 6th, 2007)

The gang from Over the Edge gave us a sneak peek of two new features in Unity 2.0: a cool terrain tool and real-time dynamic shadows. Check out the video, but also check out their page of all the other features coming soon to Unity. [Note: we'll have all these WWDC videos available for direct ...

Video: Unity, the game dev tool for Macs

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 14th, 2007)

Click To Play We've covered Unity before, but video speaks louder than words, so we were happy to have a demo of some incredible features in the latest version. Unity is a game dev tool, only for Macintosh, that allows you to create Mac games, Dashboard widget games, PC games, web ...