Software developer e frontier has announced that their long-running 3D modeling, animation and design tool, Shade 3D, will be available for Unity Technology's Unity 3D game engine starting this ...

Not only that, you can now create both 2D and 3D games with Unity 4.3, animate almost anything with the native animation system Mecanim, and implement very cool graphics.

Unity has been the engine of choice for thousands of developers and it's still really good if you want to have a go at making a simple 2D game for a host of different platforms.