New Killzone 2 Footage + Details

A nice developer walkthrough showcasing the graphics, presentation with developer commentary about 'making the best first person shooter', from the BBC no less.

Tech-5 Video Walkthrough

Tech 5 is showing off some amazing 3D graphics, up there with the likes of UE3 powered games and Crysis. But whats most surprising is that iD is even planning on hitting the 60fps sweetspot with their latest game, 'RAGE', on both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360!

For those counting down the doom of the Xbox 360 with the new fangled texture streaming, well, if having two DVDs is much worse than one Blu-Ray disc then you have a small victory.

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Engine Exploration
Walk Through Part 1
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Far Cry 2 is Coming, First Video Tech Demo Released

Far Cry 2 is coming though it is not Crysis and it is not being developed by CryTek, Far Cry 2 is being developed and published by Ubisoft. The tech demo showcases some very interesting vertex shaders being used for real-time deformations, materials will deform realistically from impacts, also they are used to build dirt on different materials. They are also going to be used for lighting.



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Killzone E3 (2007)

Well, not quite as impressive as the pre-rendered one, but damn well it's enough to shut the gobs of the doubters!



Given a 20 million dollar budget and 120 people on staff it was but certain that while the pre-rendered trailer was a bit too high the Playstation 3 could pull off a downgraded version of it.

Mass Effect, The Halo Killer

With its latest showing at E3 it looks like Mass Effect has just left Halo 3 in the dust. Halo looks more and more like the guilty pleasure of sci-fi games wherein Mass Effect seems to be showing off far more, from a potential love interest to the ideas of ethnic cleansing. Mass Effect seems to be turning more and more into that brilliant game not enough people know about, if Halo 3 was the Star Wars Prequels then Mass Effect would be Serenity.



No question about it, the trailer has Hollywood pedegree and odds are the game will blow away all expectations. Perhaps this was a long time coming, a lot of what is shown in the trailer is standard movie fare, stuff that couldn't be translated over to games due to the extremely limited dialogue systems employed. Though Mass Effect seems to have changed all that, and even thrown in more. I think it is the first game in history to have a kiss/(sex?) scene in the name of character development/story progression rather than for porns sake or to simulate humans.

Turok Melee

With this generation of gaming were seeing more and more movie like moments made possible through procedural animations. Games like 'Assassins Creed' and Lucas Arts upcoming Indiana Jones game show case this very well, however neither have dared to go nearly as violent as Turok has. While in Assassins Creed you can cut a dastardly crusader you won't see much blood in Turok if you stab the dinosaur multiple times in the head the blood will flow. Now this is a game thats taking melee combat to the next level.

Call of Duty 4 E3 Trailer

Thats right, a full blown trailer, this is not another one of those brief gameplay demonstrations.

Lair - Ground, Sea and Crazy Looking Critters

Shaping up to be the first *real* killer app for the Playstation 3, no need to say how great this game looks.

Heaps of New Metroid Prime 3 Screenshots

Many, many screenshots, after the announcement that Metroid Prime 3 will be delayed it loooks like someone at Nintendo HQ through extreme feelings of guilt green lighted this massive down pouring of screenshot goodness. Is that Samus shooting phazon!? Epic to say the least!

New Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer Details Emerge

Lots of great new features are coming in with Call of Duty 4, while some are relatively small changes, such as guns that shoot through walls, others like 'Create a Class' are set to completely change the way the game will be played.

Halo 3 High Resolution Screenshots

New screenshots of the different Spartans as well some some new Multiplayer maps.

VIA IGN

Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer Gameplay

While it's sad that it won't be taking any advantage of Windows Live Anywhere features it still retains the gameplay of past iterations.



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Lair Screenshots

This game looks incredible, you'd think you're playing a movie in the gigantic worlds the game presents the player with. Even the human models in the game are detailed to the same degree of detail you would expect from FPS titles.

Amazing Detail in Soul Calibur 4

Instead of just going 'boobies!' and pausing the video on 00:27 if you look at the other still shots you'll find there is an incredible amount of detail not centered around the aforementioned excercise balls. The amount of detail is insane, you can see the varnish on the wood and the same varnish wearing off, you can even see individual stitches in the clothes.

Shadow Run Machinima

Creators of Red vs Blue tackle Shadow Run in their new Machinima, '1-800-MAGIC'.

Video: Diablo For Gameboy Colour - Unreleased

The definitive slash'n'hack RPG of its era was going to get the portable treatment, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.






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VIA PTOP

Video: Realistic Water

It seems as if the definition of 'real time realistic water' involves a simple pixel shader splashed on a block with a texture applied to it. Of course the 'liquid' seen in games thusfar don't really behave like liquids, they only look like liquids. Maybe PhysX can finally help developers create actual 'realistic' water that behaves like a liquid.






Here are some other PhysX tech demos, I can vouch for the cloth simulations authenticity, I've run them on my PC first hand (without the use of PhysX).

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Resident Evil 4 Wii and Gamecube Video Comparison

Bringing Resident Evil 4 to the Wii presents more benefits than just a new and enhanced control scheme.

In Game DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9

Screenshots of Crysis running in DirectX 10 and DirectX 9.0.








To find which screenshot is running in DirectX 10 and which are running in DirectX 9.0f (if you haven't figured it out already) click here.