| Unity game engine updated for Leopard
Unity Technologies has announced the release of Unity 3D 2.0.1, an updated version of their 3D game design engine for Mac OS X. The free update for registered 2.0 users is ready for download. The software runs on Mac OS X but enables developers to deploy across multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, Windows and the Web. It incorporates an integrated editor, asset importing, shadow and light support, optimized graphics for both OpenGL and DirectX, terrain modeling, shaders, scripting support, networking, physics, audio and video support and asset management. New to the 2.0.1 release is support for Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard," along with some necessary documentation updates that “enhance the documentation for both pre-existing and new features introduced with the initial Unity 2.0 release," according to the developers.
Death Cab's Chris Walla goes solo
Check back at www.seattletimes.com/entertainment next week for an interview with Walla. Chris Rock coming to Seattle Comedian Chris Rock is coming to Seattle's Paramount Theatre. Rock's tour, called "No Apologies," is the outspoken comedian's first tour in over three years. .
Volatility doesn't shake Michigan
The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer confidence reading for January was 80.5, well above the Wall Street consensus of 74.5. The reading rose from 75.5 in December, which was the weakest level since October 2005, right after Hurricane Katrina. And consumer assessments of current conditions came in surprisingly rosy at 98.1, up from 91.0 and the highest since August. But many consumers view Washington's proposed stimulus plan with a tax rebate, which aims to spur the household spending that buoys the nation's economy, as little more than a Band-Aid. Regardless of stock market gyrations, there's no quick fix for Michigan, which has one of the most moribund real estate markets in the U.S., a jobless rate half again as high as the national average and a vanishing manufacturing base.
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