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.

Microsoft and 'Live 3.0'

Sony is promising to deliver better than Xbox Live for free, though if it can just get as good as Xbox Live free it would be more than enough. Sony on top of free online is pushing the concept of 'Game 3.0', so far the reaction to it has been extremely possitive giving an 'empire strikes back' vibe to the console wars.

Microsoft is still back at its Xbox 1 days, charging for what is essentially the same service, making free the ability to purchase things or download what is usually free. It's time for Microsoft to get back into focusing on community interaction. Just how?

At the 2006 E3 Petere Moore made that damning quote "Some people do rubber ducks, some people do tattoos", could we extend this and expect this E3 Petere Moore to get up on stage and proclaim "Some people do rag dolls, some people do Spartans"? No, I'm not looking for a platformer in which you play a customizable Master Chief and go around creating levels to jump around in, I'm talking about a full featured map editor.

Give developers the ability to integrate map editors and other such goodies into their games as part of the XNA, make it so someone can create a map for Halo 3 on his/her PC and release it via Xbox Live as a free download.

The whole 'Game 3.0' concept Sony has come up with is entirely coincedential, Playstation Home was originally as part of the lobby for a Playstation 2 game and perhaps the only reason LittleBigPlanet is an exclusive for the Playstation 3 is because Sony has bought the Ageia PhysX license for all developers on the Playstation 3. If Sony's Game 3.0 concept goes unmatched then the PSN will definitely surpass Xbox Live in every way.

Test Yourself With Crysis

There are two images, one image is a photograph, the other is a screenshot taken in-game (realtime) where the artist has used the photograph as a reference (scroll down for the answers).

For the first one the photograph is on top, the photograph is on the right for the second and the top is the photograph for the third.

Here are some more, via inCrysis and a friendly Digg user.