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New Killzone 2 Trailer
Not too shabby, a new trailer from the Sony/Guerrilla camp for Killzone 2: Few things that I noticed: Some non-fluid animations “Bubble” looking explosions in a few places (think Quake 2 for an over-exaggerated example of what I mean) Great sounds Some nice effects of materials you don’t typically see rendered well in video games (like cloth and cabling) Confusing story… [...]
Continue reading...The Best Water in a Video Game Title Could Pass to Resistence 2
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Almost a year ago we wrote an article analyzing the Evolution of Water Effects in Games and gave the award to Halo 3. Just to clarify, the award was given to Halo 3 at the time because it had the most physically-feeling real water we had ever seen in a game. Some readers pointed out that [...]
Continue reading...Open Source DRM Solution, Marlin, Ready for Distribution
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Marlin Developer Community claims to have ready the first Open Source DRM solution that is ready for rollout. The co-chairman of the Marlin Developer Community claims the open-source system is far less oppressive than those from rivals such as Apple and Microsoft, allowing users to share content between any Marlin-enabled device in the home rather than [...]
Continue reading...No Plans to Fix PSP-3000 Screen Issues Says Sony
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Unfortunately it looks like all you owners of the PSP-3000 are forced to either deal with it or downgrade to the PSP 2000. Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) has issued an official response, which you can read below. On some occasions, scan lines may appear on scenes where brightness changes drastically, due to the hardware [...]
Continue reading...Convert Your RPTV Into a Home Theater Projector
Monday, September 29, 2008
Chris Hunkele sent in this pretty incredible story of do-it-yourselfing from a guy that took his busted down old 50″ rear-projection-television (RPTV), took the front screen off of it, mounted it behind a rear-projection screen that was much bigger (pictured above) and turned it into a huge-screen projector for his home theater. The magic all started [...]
Continue reading...PS3 2.5 Firmware Adding Screenshot Capability
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
CVG is reporting that the 2.5 firmware update for the PS3 (coming somewhat soon, weeks? months?) will add the ability to grab screenshots of whatever you are playing. I imagine this will need to be some magic set of keystrokes to do so, because right now not every game pauses the action when you hit the [...]
Continue reading...Burnout Paradise to be Released on the PSN
Friday, August 15, 2008
In some very unexpected yet awesome news, EA has announced that Criterion Games’ smash hit, Burnout Paradise will be hitting the Playstation Network this fall. The PSN release will come complete with the upcoming Trophy support and the new ‘Bikes Pack‘ that will be hitting both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live shortly. This is [...]
Continue reading...Sony Launching 1:1 Motion Tracking Eye Toy Sword Game
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Ted Regulski sends in news that Sony is poised to launch a new addition to the PS2’s family of Eye Toy Play games: Eye Toy Play: Hero. The game will use 1:1 motion-tracking of the player’s movements for sword fighting by way of a florescent green foam toy sword they use to fight with (I’m guessing [...]
Continue reading...John Carmack: “We will have to make quality consessions on Xbox 360″
Monday, August 4, 2008
In a Quake-Con 08 interview with the GameTrailers crew, John Carmack (lead genius behind the engines of id Software) was talking about console development. He said that while the PS3 is harder to develop for (you spend more time separating the work and collaborating with all 8 processors) it is much better than “back in the [...]
Continue reading...Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
If you are a Sony PS3 owner, you have possibly been waiting for the introduction of Home for about a year now. You were waiting for it in 2007 or Early 2008 when it was suppose to first come out, and now you are waiting for it again later this year; assuming it makes that [...]
Continue reading...No Universal Private Voice Chat in PS3 2.4 Firmware
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
If you were waiting for the 2.4 Firmware update for the PS3 to cure your in-game communication woes with the “in game XMB support”, then you are probably pissed off right now. Either apply the 2.4 update bricked your PS3 as a good handful of people are reporting online or you noticed that trying to do [...]
Continue reading...Streaming Playback of 720p Media to PS3 Stutters or is Jerky
Thursday, June 26, 2008
If you are like me, you probably use your PS3 to stream media from a NAS at home or something; either from the NAS directly or via a computer using TVersity. If you have begun to dabble with streaming HD content, either 720p or 1080p, you may have noticed that the PS3’s playback of that media [...]
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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