How Sledgehammer is reshaping Call of Duty – Part 2: Technical
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How Sledgehammer is reshaping Call of Duty – Part 2: Technical
Advancing warfare.
Plaster having successfully doubled the studio's space. It's an amusing legend, and one that ... game got a complete rebuild: a new engine, new animation, and new audio. Technical advancements ...
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Buena Vista Games to acquire Climax Racing
Deep resources in the video games space to continue creating remarkable interactive entertainment,” said Beckwith. “This ... next-generation consoles. Using its proprietary render engine and DYNE physics libraries the studio has become ...
Dreams Review
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Dreams Review
Can Media Molecule capture lightning in a bottle a second time?
Dreams has opened up the artform of games ... Played Dreams - the eight-year gestating game/game engine from Sony developer Media Molecule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZS67fCb0Ss ... before jumping into prototypes for near photorealistic spaces. All of which had been designed, sculpted, painted ...
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Art director Sebastien Mitton on Dishonored 2's supernatural systems
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Art director Sebastien Mitton on Dishonored 2's supernatural systems
A ballet of blood.
Know. So tools, AI… an engine is a beast, it's lots of stuff. Especially when ... strong collaboration, we work in an open space and everyone is moving. We have strike teams ...
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Army of Two gets third, "more intense" outing
Chest-high walls ahoy!
Tone” according to developers Visceral Games (Dead Space). “We wanted to refresh the Army ... destructible environments courtesy of the Frostbite 2 engine. The Devil's Cartel will be available ...
Days Gone Review
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Days Gone Review
Can Sony continue it's winning streak of triple-A exclusives?
Days Gone is an ambitious new IP that ... Damage my bike could handle. The engine won't start, and the freakers are gaining ... above happened in the space of about ten minutes. Days Gone is full of thrilling emergent ...
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Spec Ops: The Line studio unveils PC space combat title Dreadnought
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Spec Ops: The Line studio unveils PC space combat title Dreadnought
An “aerial armada action game”.
Chaos. “Dreadnought harkens back to the PC space combat game we developed when we first started ... power to specific sub-systems, customising weapons, engines, armour, abilities, crew, and their ships’ aesthetics ...
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War FAQ.
Not to be confused with the recently-cancelled ... Game: Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, and Chaos Space Marines. Do I control squads or individual units ... enjoy the game. However, the 3D engine created for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War allows ...
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Xbox Showcase San Francisco 2011
Gears 3! Crysis 2! Torchlight! Homefront.
On Friday in San Francisco, Microsoft held its ... Explained it away on Crytek’s proprietary engine. In action, 3D is executed to spectacular effect ... weapons to bear on enemies within the space seems as sharp and intuitive as any game ...
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Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
First impressions of the sixth title.
Insomniac Games has overhauled its proprietary PS3 engine technology to create the most visceral Ratchet ... majestic cloud city and a space-age amusement park. * Encounter an entirely new cast of expressive ...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines
Stay frosty.
Creating the archetypal Vietnam War-like space marine squad, to call your platoon a clichéd ensemble ... lighting and Gearbox has employed a proprietary engine that throws up sharp contrast between what ...
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Hot picks for 2008
Your inside guide to a full-on year of games.
Gameplanet takes a look at a bunch of ... Let's face it, 2007 was a landmark ...
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Much More Than Words Pt II: MUDs.
In this second part of our series we ... Twenty-odd years, with more flexible database engines and redefined game conditions, MUDs haven't gone ... place. GEnie and Compuserve tried everything from space-trading (Federation II) to strategy (Hundred Years ...
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Six games that need to be remade
Because some titles are just too good to die.
It's easy to grow cynical when confronted ... Lemmings Years before Rockstar North created the psychotic ...
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E3 2011 Electronic Arts Press Event
Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, NFS: The Run.
Showcasing Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 and Need ... Tactical defending and a new player impact engine. The former is touted as making position just ... tackle itself. The player impact engine seeks to add real world physicality to the game ...
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The best answers from Valve CEO Gabe Newell's AMA
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The best answers from Valve CEO Gabe Newell's AMA
Portal 2 his fave Valve single player game.
Informing everything we did in the multiplayer space. Left 4 Dead is a good place ... Aside from moving Dota 2 to the engine recently, we are are using ...
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Warhammer 40,000: Regicide review
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Warhammer 40,000: Regicide review
A right royal rampage.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is what every kid ... Nothing says ‘chess’ like a Space Marine liquefying the face of an Ork with a barrage ... hood of Regicide is a robust chess engine that will provide sufficient challenge to most chess ...
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The Witness "the biggest and most intricate" puzzle world ever built
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The Witness "the biggest and most intricate" puzzle world ever built
Eight hour game balloons to at least 25.
Independent team like ours, detailing this huge space is a lot of work!” “Originally ... quickly, said Blow. “We wrote our own engine for this game, so on the one hand ...
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Unreal Tournament 2004 Details
Due in Q1 2004. ... Unreal Tournament 2003 * A variety of land-, space- and air-based vehicles, including buggies, tanks, hovercraft ... launch devastating attacks * Epic's Unreal Engine technology; the game features the most beautiful and detailed ...
Crimson Skies review
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Crimson Skies review
Cave or another ridiculously dangerous tight space. These special items do not unlock hidden missions ... combined with a variety of different engines, weapons and armour. In the single player campaign your ...