We have reviewed many Unity books before, however, we never reviewed a full-on Unity book geared to Unity-experienced developers. That’s exactly why Packt Publishing, with the help of Jate Wittayabundit, released Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot. With just a word of warning, Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot is far from a beginners book. You should be [....]

If you have been in school in the last couple of years, there is most likely a huge chance you have used the popular e-learning CMS program called Moodle. With the help of Packt Publishing, who is notorious from writing about open source projects like Moodle, they have taken it to the next level. With [....]

Readers would be pleased to know that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a giveaway  for you! Three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of our new books on Unity 3D. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the lucky winner. [....]

Want to get yourself delved right into the 3D gaming world but never had the knowledge to do so? With Packt Publishing’s recent release, Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide by Ryan Creighton, it is a great read if you wish to get started in the Unity world. If you have been following [....]

If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m one of the biggest jQuery fans out there. When Packt Publishing gave me the opportunity to review three of their jQuery books, I was more than happy to give a full read of all three books and make one huge jQuery book review. As that was nearly a [....]

It’s without a doubt that WordPress is one of the largest content management systems out there. WordPress has been known for its easy to use software and along with its extendability. WordPress’s extendability features, called plugins, have always been loved by WordPress’s users as they provide an elegant system to expand WordPress to [....]

Even though you may not realize it, every single website you visit  has an HTTP server to it. There are many HTTP servers out there, even some based upon open source projects, but the majors ones are mainly Apache (most websites use Apache), Microsoft’s IIS (blah!), Nginx, and lighttpd. Nginx has been getting quite [....]

As the Linux operating system has been getting more and more popular, many system administrators want to learn Linux shell scripting for a larger feature set. The Linux terminal is a powerful feature; combining that with shell scripting, you can really unlock some of the neglected features of any Linux operating system. Shell scripting [....]

Every developer knows creating 3D games from scratch isn’t easy.  However, when you use a 3D library, your life becomes quite a bit easier. OGRE 3D is one of those popular 3D open source libraries. Because Packt Publishing has been really gearing on the 3D side of things lately, they released a beginner’s guide on OGRE [....]

Blender has been getting great attention for quite sometime now. As more and more features are added into this wonderful 3D program, 3D designers are really noticing Blender’s features. One of Blender’s most notable features would be how it handles materials and textures. It’s for sure not modo 501, but it can do some pretty [....]

If you can remember a while back in late September of last year, we reviewed one of the best task managers on the Mac, OmniFocus. It ever so happens that they make one of the best diagramming applications on the Mac also, OmniGraffle. When Packt Publishing shot me an e-mail about reviewing one [....]

We gave you a short preview of this upcoming review, and now, we’re ready for the full review of Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide! If you may not know, Cocos2d is a highly looked upon iOS/Mac game development framework. In fact, I used it to develop my first game on iOS. It’s extremely easy [....]

We just finished our review of a beginner’s guide to Unity and now, we have a more in-depth Unity book hitting the shelves called Unity Game Development Essentials. Unlike our last review, Unity Game Development Essentials is more of an in-depth book, but it’s ironically shorter than the beginner’s guide to Unity. Personally, I [....]

A while back we made a post of an upcoming review from Packt Publishing. Because of our recent facelift, we had to delay all of our reviews and we’re finally catching back up to the plate. So with that said, we’re sorry for making you wait! In all seriousness, game development isn’t easy; [....]