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PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...The PC Game Market is Not Dead
Sunday, July 20, 2008
You remember that old saying “Follow the money?” whenever you wanted to find the answer to something? It still applies… For years now PC Gaming has “been dying” and giving way to consoles; the more locked down, publiser/advertiser friendly, vendor lock-in-encouraging devices that have meant to replace the 20 billion PC gamers on the planet. Yea after [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto 4 Impressions
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Ok, this is a mini-mini-review of GTA4 for the folks that haven’t played it yet: 5min Impressions: This is totally GTA3/VC/SA + more complex city, better graphics (not amazing). Controls and movement feel sluggish, I think it has to do with the animation blending Performance is on par with other GTAs… 20-30fps range, not smooth as butter, but so [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto 4 Leaked
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Damn… so Kotaku has the scoop that iCON (a ripping group) has gotten their hands on a stolen GTA4 game disk for the Xbox 360, ripped it and leak it onto the net. Apparently folks were posting gameplay movies to GameTrailers and YouTube this morning, I found a few, but they are getting ripped down by [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Getting In-Game XMB, VOD and More in 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Niiiice, it looks like even though 2.30 firmware for the PS3 just dropped, adding a new PSN Store interface as well as adding DTS-HD support to the PS3, work on the next set of firmware upgrades is hot underway. Sony promises not only in-game XMB but also a new video download service that will be “unlike [...]
Continue reading...Turok Review (PS3)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Summary [6.5 out of 10] Turok is a perfect example of a next-gen game almost being good, with close-minded, repetitive and sometimes punishing try-die-and-try-again game design dragging down some of the impressive technical accomplishments. Introduction The premise of Turok is that you are John Turok and ex-member of the super-elite Wolfpack group and now a member of the [...]
Continue reading...Real Rendering Resolutions of Console Games
Friday, April 4, 2008
Robert Heron sent in a pretty cool link over to the Beyond3D forums where a list of popular games and their true rendering resolutions were given. For Reference: 1080p = 1920×1080 720p = 1280×720 Here’s a snippet as an example: Army of Two = 720p (no AA, downscaled to 685p with black borders, no adjustable border) Call of Duty 4 = [...]
Continue reading...GameStop Tries to Fuck Penny Arcade
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
As you guys know the Penny Arcade guys are working on a game with HotHead and is due out in a few months. They announced recently that they would be digitally distributing the game for Windows, Linux and Mac digitally and I think everyone assumed Valve’s Steam… or some service like Steam. As it turns out [...]
Continue reading...Gears of War Movie, Confirmed 2010
Monday, March 31, 2008
Well it’s official, looks like New Line (now Warner Bros) is going to go forward with the Gears of War movie: “We’ve got our script on and a director we’re about to attach. We’ll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010,” said Godfrey. If you haven’t caught it already, there has been massive [...]
Continue reading...Condemned 2: Scary Fucking Game
Monday, March 24, 2008
Ok so I got a chance to download and play the Condemned 2 demo from PSN (I never played Condemned 1) and I have to say… that is a scary fucking game. Remember how Jericho was suppose to be super scary and it ended up just being a mindless shooter that didn’t do any 1 thing [...]
Continue reading...Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Review (PS3)
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Summary [6.5 out of 10] Kane & Lynch is an idea for a good game, wrapped in 2 obnoxious technical mechanics (controls and cover), last-gen graphics and obnoxiously repetitive/punishing level design and gameplay elements. Introduction I’ll admit, I’ve been tempted by the marketing of Kane & Lynch and wanted to get it, even after all the bad reviews [...]
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