Unity, An Amazing Game Development Engine

Unity is a fully integrated development engine that provides rich out-of-the-box functionality to create games and other interactive 3D content. You use Unity to assemble your art and assets into scenes and environments; add lighting, audio, special effects, physics and animation; simultaneously play test and edit your game, and when ready, publish to your desired platforms, such as Mac, PC and Linux desktop computers, the Web, iOS, Android, Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Unity is a game development ecosystem: a powerful rendering engine fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows to create interactive 3D content; easy multiplatform publishing; thousands of quality, ready-made assets in the Asset Store and a knowledge-sharing Community.

The latest update to the game engine has been in Unity 4.0, which was released in November, 2012. It has the following features.

• Shaken particle system supports external forces, bent normals and automatic culling
• Multiplatform:It supports Windows,Linux,Mac,Android,iOS,Adobe Flash Player,PlayStation 3
• 3D texture support
• Mecanim:3D animation technology
• Navigation: dynamic obstacles and avoidance priority
• Major optimizations in Unity GUI performance and memory usage
• Dynamic fonts on all platforms with HTML-like markup
• Remote Unity Web Player debugging
• New Project Window workflows
• Iterative lightmap baking
• Refined component-based workflows
• Extensible inspectors for custom classes
• Improved Cubemap import pipeline
• Geometry data improvements for huge memory and performance savings
• Meshes can be constructed from non-triangle geometry—render points & lines efficiently

Unity has launched many interesting and awesome games.To enjoy unity based games,visit the link http://www.unity3dgames.net/

 

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Dell sold to Microsoft, Silver Lake for $24 billion

In an unexpected and exciting twist for the PC industry, Dell — pending regulatory and stockholder approval — has been sold to Microsoft, Silver Lake, and Michael Dell himself for $24.4 billion. Michael Dell remains the largest shareholder with 16%, and will continue to run the company. Microsoft’s part of the sale totals $2 billion, though big questions remain about how Microsoft will be involved in the newly-private company.

The best question to ask at this point is why Dell is going private. The short answer is because the PC is slowly dying(because of the sucking windows 8), and so is Dell’s stock value. While its stock grew in value until 2005, Dell’s stock has steadily declined ever since. Dell has tried to reverse this slide for years, by shaking things up with acquisitions and a shift of focus to enterprise hardware and services, but seemingly these changes haven’t been enough to right the ship. Here we are: 25 years after debuting on the stock market, Michael Dell is taking his company private again.
What does Dell hope to achieve by going private? In short, it needs some time away from the public limelight to work on some truly innovative products. One of the biggest problems of being a publicly traded company is that you live and die by your quarterly results — but products can take a lot longer than three months to develop. In essence, Dell might want to spend 12 months and billions of dollars developing an awesome new product — but with nothing to show for it in the intervening window, except for more losses, the company’s stock value would take a dive. By going private, Dell can ignore the ire of Wall Street and do whatever it wants.

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Game Development Seminar

As you know, Softdesk is going to organize a seminar on 28th of this month. This seminar is basically based on developing a game. It will provide you the chance to develop,enhance and improve your programming as well as your gaming skills. You will get to know about a game that how it is designed,how it is developed,how it is programmed and how it is run on any device you want. Join this amazing event on 28th February 2013 at Conference Hall UET Taxila from 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m. Hope this workshop will be an interesting one and you will learn awesome things.

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