Unity has often been touted as the most powerful game engine this side of a million dollars. And while it's the leader in middleware for the iPhone and a superb development platform for stand alone PC and Mac games and for consoles like Nintendo's Wii, it has been receiving a lot of attention for its web player. The plug-in has a smaller download size than Flash and, at the time of writing, has already been installed on more than 15 million computers.
A major attraction to using Unity is the ability to author console-quality 2D and 3D games for the Web. Unity's attractive price point was a major factor in seeing early adoption by indie developers, who have been prolific, but more recently Unity has seen an increase in adoption for use with major brands by major development studios.
Electronic Arts Inc.(EA) today unveiled a slate of titles that are now available in the Google Chrome Web Store. At a Google Chrome event, EA showcased its popular gaming destination, Pogo, which leveraged the Google Web Toolkit to transform Poppit! into an HTML5 title.
At a press event today, Google unveiled the details of its Chrome Web Store, an HTML5-based app marketplace that operates on top of the Chrome web browser, including games from Electronic Arts and numerous other developers.
I like google chrome and may check this out if they bring any worthy software to the table.
So, while 1UP recommends this to anyone who plays golf video games, or used to, this is, in a way, a very well-looked-after port. Hopefully next year they cut the greens fees in half, and widen the avatar selection.
