With their biggest release to date Unity Tech launched the official release of Unity 4.0! So quit reading and get downloading and enjoy all the new bells and whistles Unity 4 has to offer. [Get Unity 4]

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Unity Tech has released their first Unity 4.0 public Beta, and if you’re a pre-order customer you will have access to the Pro version of the Beta, while everyone else will be using the Free version of 4.0.  So get downloading and enjoy the all-new Mecanim animation system & DirectX 11 support. [Get Unity 4]

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Industry veteran Justin Harrison takes you through the complete pipeline for setting up Animation in UDK! Learn how to use the Anim tree editor and Kismet to enhance your workflow. Learn & Enjoy! [Watch the lesson]

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GarageGames is set to release their Torque 3D engine on Github under the MIT license! In addition one of their first goals was to use iTorque to build a new product they dubbed as the 3 Step Studio. Although early in development, 3 Step Studio shows promise for visionaries who lack the ability to program. [Learn more]

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Houdini, Unity and Unreal connect to showcase the possibilities of Procedural Game Art;

“This Side Effects Software presentation by Freek Hoekstra on procedural game development was shown at the Houdini Booth at SIGGRAPH 2012 in LA. Freek explores techniques for generating procedural content with a large part devoted to controllable city generation.” Learn & Enjoy! []

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Eat 3D is back with a spanking new tutorial. In this Animation Masterclass – Animating with Maya for Games, instructor Joe Mandia provides a solid foundation by clearing up the complexities of animation using Maya 2012 with a focus on video games. Learn & Enjoy! [Animating with Maya for Games]

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If you haven’t heard of Ryan Hawkins project Vertex, now is definitely the time to become familiar, Ryan has spent over a year developing *VERTEX*, one of the most comprehensive free resources that belongs in every game-artists’ library. This eBook covers everything from Sculpting, Color Theory, Texturing and even how to set yourself up as a successful Freelancer. A must read, Learn & Enjoy! [Download the book]

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Eat 3D has released part 2 of their on-going Kismet series, this time around instructor Rusty Sempsrott delves deeper into Kismet using UDK. Many concepts are explained here as Rusty shows you how to create a Top Down Shooter without a single line of code. Learn & Enjoy! [Unreal Kismet 2 - Creating a Top Down Shooter]

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Since the release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron artists Brad Boyles, Wesley Griffith, Erich Beckmann and David Pacanowsky shared the work they completed on the title. Enjoy! [View the art]

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