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 [....]

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 [....]

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 [....]

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 [....]

If you don’t know, nearly a year ago I switched over to the Mac for one main reason — iOS development. Forward seven months after the day I switched to the Mac, Alienz (yup, shameless plug) was released. It was hard learning game development on iOS; I’ve never publicly released any game before [....]

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; [....]

Today, Facebook announced a new system of messaging between people at once where the control of the conversation is in the users hands. In the next few months a few new changes will be added Facebook to help make instant communication more centralized. In the video Facebook’s Joel Seligstein created, he categorizes the new system into 5 [....]

We’ve written about Packt multiple times before, but they’re at it again with something new! This time, you’ll all get something for free… that is, if you want it! Packt Publishing has released one of their new services, called PacktLib, a subscription service to view Packt’s vast library of books. Yes, that’s right, [....]

When I first learned PHP in the very early stages of my web-development experience, I thought that PHP was the only server-side language I could use to write my web-applications. Later after that, I figured out that you have many languages you could write your web-application in: Python (most likely with Django), Perl [....]

I’ve been using my Kindle 2 for the past 2 months (thanks to my wife for giving me one as a Christmas gift!) and being a bookworm and a gadget freak, it has now become an essential part of my daily gadget usage. I used to bring books whenever I travel, and having [....]

When you think about it, using that fancy new DSLR camera of your isn’t going to be the easiest thing. Even any camera for that mater, you have to learn on to use it. I have to personally say, photography is not any easy thing at all. You have a variety of different [....]