What Skyrim Would Look Like In CryEngine 3

Via John Papadopoulos at DSOGaming, this is a pretty incredible video from modder “wenda.” Check it out: John writes, “Wenda has released a video of his WIP map and we have to say that this is exactly how Skyrim would look like in CryEngine 3. The attention to detail is really amazing and although we’ve […]

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DUST 514 Could Change The Way We Think About Online Gaming

When I first heard about Ubisoft’s Far Cry “multi-player online universe” I mused: “What I’ve always wanted to see in an online first-person-shooter and what I haven’t seen yet is an attempt to stage a real online FPS war. No NPC characters at all, no bots. The players would control everything and would rise up in […]

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Double Fine Adventure’s Kickstarter Success Pumps New Life Into Crowd-Funded Gaming

The success of Double Fine Adventure is spilling over into other crowd-funded video game projects on Kickstarter, according to a post on the company’s blog. The crowd-funding website reports that in the month leading up to Double Fine’s debut, the Video category averaged 629 pledges per week. A shocking jump in pledges occurred after the […]

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Six Reasons Why Changing The Mass Effect 3 Ending Won’t Threaten Its ‘Artistic Integrity’

I’m still puzzling out how critics of the Retake Mass Effect movement can justify the ‘dangerous precedent’ argument. It’s tied rather closely to ‘artistic integrity’ I suppose; the former providing the intellectual gristle for the latter. If an artist changes his art for the fans, this sets a dangerous precedent for other artists, or so […]

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Warning: These Congressmen Want To Legislate Away Your Free Speech With ‘The Violence in Video Games Labeling Act’

“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.” That’s the label Reps. Joe Baca and Frank Wolf want to place on every video game that hits store shelves. Well okay, not every video game. Just every game with an E (Everyone) rating or higher. Only EC (Early Childhood) games would avoid the […]

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Storytelling In Dark Souls And Skyrim

I’m going to dip back into Tom Bissell’s excellent piece on Bethesda’s Skyrim for a moment, now that I’m up to speed on From Software’s Dark Souls. Bissell argues that the storytelling in Skyrim, and the vast amounts of dense expositional lore, serve as distractions from the immersive nature of the game itself. Far from […]

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Did Robert Bowling Leave Activision Over Free DLC Remarks?

There has been a great deal of speculation that the departure of Robert Bowling from Activision and Infinity Ward was due to these comments Bowling made on the subject of releasing old Call of Duty map packs for free: …here is my philosophy on throw back maps: Old school maps, I love maps like that, […]

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