Written by admin on 09 March 2007
You know that Blizzard’s MMO has easily reached 8 million subscribers, right? Well, hold on to your pantyhose because with 3.5 million units of WoW: The Burning Crusade sold, the subscriber population has reached the record number of 8.5 million. Here’s how the 3.5 Burning Crusade sold on the globe: Europe grabbed some 1.6 million units, America got an amazing 1.9 million units while Australasia has a mere 100.000 units of the expansion pack acquired so far.
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Written by admin on 09 March 2007
No more canned animation data: ‘Every football tackle is your tackle. Every haymaker is your haymaker’
Rockstar is a development division of video game publisher Take Two Interactive. The brand is most known for titles such as the Grand Theft Auto series. Now, the guys over at Rockstar have thought how to make their GTA series even better looking than it already is. How? Euphoria. NaturalMotion, the developers
of 3D animation technology based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis, announced euphoria, a significant breakthrough in run-time animation technology for game play and development on next-generation platforms, including Playstation3, Xbox 360
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Written by admin on 09 March 2007
Attempting to convey the feeling of ‘destroyed beauty.’
Fans may be interested to know the visual environments of the game they have come to love held a heavy influence over the sound team’s approach when designing the soundscapes that carpet the landscapes. At GDC’s "Sound Design of Gears of War" panel earlier today, Epic Games audio director Mike Larson explained that the sound team wanted to carry over that same overall concept of "destroyed beauty" you see in the art’s direction. In order to accomplish this, they had to make a few decisions early on in regards to the approach they would take.
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Written by admin on 01 March 2007
Bad guys accidentally unlockable for Skirmish play.
If you’re at all like me, you probably immediately downloaded the Command & Conquer 3 demo, only to find yourself disappointed at one glaring absence: the ability to play as the Brotherhood of Nod. It’s well-known the shiny-headed leader of Nod, Kane, is every one’s favorite RTS bad guy, and besides, who really wants to fight on the side of boring, squeaky clean GDI? Not I.
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