I recently attended a talk by Anders Egléus who was one of the VFX leads for Star Wars Battlefront. I'm not going to do a full blog post because I don't really think I can do justice to his fairly technical talk but I thought I would highlight some interesting bits. Production on Star Wars Battlefront was 2 Years but the game was only in full production for 9 months. At last count, including DL...
I attended a Microsoft/Crytek development presentation that Siggraph Vancouver put on last night. Marius is 85k tris, he has 770 bones, vertices have 8 bone influences and there are 230 blend shapes in the face. There is no LOD version of Marius since the camera always stays in close and the cutscene model is the same as the gameplay model. The number of triangles is higher than last gen but on...
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It is only the death of the original Xbox Live, but it still feels significant. The games will still be there, you can still get your Halo/Halo2 Lan parties on and when you really think about it Halo 2 isn't all that different from Halo 3 which will still be kicking it till 2017 when the robot overlords fight the mole people over the matter of who gets to harvest our organs. It probably has som...
For some reason I can't place a review for this DLC right now. The "Add Review" button does nothing. So I'm going to write it in this Blog Entry instead while it is fresh in my mind and transfer it over later. Kasumi - Stolen Memory got me back into ME2 and I am glad for it. Like a lot of people I haven't touched ME2 since finishing my first play through, if it wasn't for all the other games de...
What is Monster Hunter? Monster Hunter is a game about hunting monsters, simple. Everything in the game revolves around going out into the wilderness and taking down these big vicious monsters, then stripping them of their valuable parts. You can then take these parts and craft them into better weapons and armor for yourself or sell them. If you have heard anything about this series you most li...
So the Spike Video Game Awards have been becoming a more legitimate award show each year, the main categories this year are fairly solid in their nominees, some odd choices here or there but it is fairly solid. Where the VGAs still fall flat on their face is Best Performance by a Human Female, Best Performance by a Human Male and Best Cast. These categories seem to have nothing to do with quali...
Never ship from Play Asia using the cheap Air Economy shipping, it only cost $3, but I ended getting charged $20 in customs. As opposed to when I ship UPS for $20 I get charged $3 for customs. So they both work out to the same in the end, except UPS takes 2 Days and Air Economy took over 2 weeks. However I now have my copy of Dragon Quest 9, now I just have to surmount the imposing Japanese lan...
I just finished playing through F.E.A.R. , no not FEAR 2, the original F.E.A.R. Fear 2's release last week made me realize I never finished the first FEAR. I assume a lot of people probably did not finish the first FEAR. Any time, anyone brings up FEAR they will always assuredly mention the fact that there are an endless amounts of similar looking office spaces throughout the game. This is true...