Well if you were ever on the fence about buying Unity3D... you no longer have to be! Happily announced at the UNITE09 conference this past week, the version formerly known as UnityIndie... is now FREE! Yes, that's right, free. Now known just as Unity, (the "indie") was dropped, it has all the features that UnityIndie had. For no money. The game engine that has "made people millionaires" is opening its doors to the students, hobbiests, and other less fortunate folk who couldn't afford this awesome program before.
Used by EA to develop their new Tiger Woods online golfing game, now able to build to the Wii system, and one of the most popular iPhone development kits... Unity is just a whole barrel-full of awesome. Check it out.
And while we are all very excited about the "freeness" of Unity, don't discount UnityPro either. This newest release, Unity 2.6, has some fantastic upgrades. Including a new Profiler to see exactly where your bottlenecks are, and an Animation editor that lets you graphically see and edit your characters. Or anything you feel like animating, really. But don't take my word for it. They have all of their new features laid out on their website, of course. But really, have I mentioned Free yet?
