Church of England Considers Suing Sony

The Bishop of Manchester Cathedral, featured in Insomniacs Playstation 3 game 'Resistance: Fall of Man', is considering suing Sony claiming that including the church in the game was 'highly irresponsible' given 'the reality of gun crime' in Manchester.

Further more the Bishop goes on to say taht Sony is undermining the Churches work, "This is an important issue. For many young people these games offer a different sort of reality and seeing guns in Manchester Cathedral is not the sort of connection we want to make".

The Church claims that Sony did not seek permission to feature the building in the game and is as such demanding all copies of 'Resistance' be removed from store shelves. SCEs David Wilson says that the game is entirely fictional "like Doctor Who or any other science fiction. It is not based on reality at all. Throughout the whole process we have sought permission where necessary".

In totally unrelated news ex-Ambulance Chser Jack Thompson is booking a flight to Manchester.



VIA BBC

Bad Habits in Halo 3 - The Top Ten List

Frankie, the dude who wouldn't shuttup about the water, has spoken of his dislike of various acts and activities people have been partaking in while playing the Halo 3 multiplayer beta, he particularly dislikes the fact people 'tea bag' other peoples kills. What sort of pathetic lowness does it take that one should start 'tea bagging' kills one didn't commit?

10. Scavenging other people’s kills – if you didn’t kill him, you have no business crouching on him.

9. Vetoing casually – Think twice before vetoing a game you only half dislike. Murphy’s Law states that the next choice will be worse.

8. Taking off in the Hog alone – You may as well drive around in a huge magnetic target.

7. Talking trash to teammates – Yelling at strangers is bad enough, but do you think yelling at your compatriots will make them play better? Drink some chocolate milk and shut your cretinous noisehole.

6. Blasting your music at us – Yes, you’re hardcore. You love mad rhymes and phat beats. We don’t care. Turn it off. We already muted you, you spaz.

5. Insulting the room before the teams are chosen – Now I don’t want to cooperate with you.

4. Shooting me specifically, with the Needler – Stop it. I hate you.

3. Racism, abuse, foul language – We muted you already. So now you’re just a sad idiot yelling into a vacuum. Actually, go right ahead. Maybe a relative will smack you or get you the help you need.

2. Insulting Gamertags – Obviously Live can’t automatically detect every idiotic Gamertag you come up with, especially with your L337 combos, so how about this: Just quit being a moron.

1. Going to the bathroom while playing – this gem was found on a Halo 3 post in another forum. Names have been hidden to protect the guilty:

I never quit, but sometimes I have to poop, so I take the controller into the toilet with me. I move the sticks and press buttons, but I can't be held responsible for my actions during these brownouts.

Luke's been playing this game a lot, but he swears it's for a purpose.


VIA Bungie Frankie

Nintendo Big Wigs to Jump Ship?

It seems like there is a very real chance some of Nintendos most valuable employees, including George Harrison (Edit: The other George Harrison), are set to leave Nintendo following a decision by Nintendos higher-higher ups to relocate the PR department from Redmond to New York.

So far Nintendo has not commented on the situation, though if they have any brains they know better than to just up and dump what is perhaps the dream team of NOA. Nintendo has never seen such great success since the original NES days, losing their key players could spell an inevitable death within the coming years.

As of present however these are all just rumours, all of it, yes, up to and including the relocation of the PR department.

VIA GameSpot

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).

Real Time Deformations:




Cloth:

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.

Gamestops Smart Marketting

Damn them and their sleezy ways.

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.