Well, what a year it has been. Nothing, then stuff, then a lot of nothing, then lots of stuff again. The release schedule of games I’m interested in is always weird, but that’s the way it works when we have seasonal spikes and troughs.
Last year of course, I said I was looking forward to Agent, a new Silent Hill game, and Mirror’s Edge 2. Well, that worked out well. Continue reading
I read this challenge recently, and I accepted.
Link copying.
Let’s do a search in Google and Bing for “skyrim gamebryo”. Hover your mouse over the first search result and the direct link to my website pops up. Right-click, copy link address, paste somewhere. What do you get? Continue reading
Oblivion uses Gamebryo mostly just for rendering.
… where does this come from?
Not the meme, that’s 4chan or Something Awful as per usual. Who lie more about a certain Todd Howard then he himself has in statements about videogames I may add. The italicised text.
EDIT: Back due to lots of 404s coming in, was going to make it part of a larger article about rumours that have come to be accepted as truths.
Not really, but yes, Skyrim’s Creation Engine still has at least some Gamebryo in it.
I actually made the claim that Creation is based on the latest version of Gamebryo in my last article on the subject, but I then edited it out. That post was about the perception of bugs and quirks coming from Gamebryo when they were specific to Bethesda. Properly substantiating the claim that Creation is based on Gamebryo and explaining why the usual counter-arguments don’t hold up would have taken up too much room, and detracted from the impact of the original point. Continue reading
The Nintendo Wii wasn’t actually hacked until about a year after release.
The Microsoft XBox360 was hacked four months after release.
The humble DVD was first cracked a good three years after release.
The Playstation 3 lasted a good three years after its release before it was hacked and is still quite secure in the newest firmware revisions.
The Playstation Portable, notorious for the amount of piracy, lasted a good five months before it was hacked.
Most of these platforms were updated by the manufacturer stopping further piracy with varying degrees of success.
So the next time someone claims a new hardware platform, or even piece of software will be hacked within a week, take that claim with a pinch of salt.
The Games Media have been positively ecstatic about dragons in the run-up to the release of Skyrim, breathlessly reporting how there will be infinite dragons, how they’ll be able to attack you almost anywhere.
Hang on though, aren’t we just talking about infinitely re-spawning enemies who stick themselves in the game where you least expect it? I thought infinite baddy respawners were bad unless they were limited to a location where you expect respawning?
Imagine you’re sitting in your car trying to get to your College of Magic and your mobile / cell goes off, so you answer it. “Cousin”, comes the accented voice from the tinny speaker of the expensively crap ‘phone, “we should go to a gentleman’s club”. Then Roman Bellic flies in, crushes half the Liberty City rush hour traffic, belches – engulfing you in flame and kills you dead. Continue reading
It turns out that Skyrim is going to be about 6gb on disk. The headline may as well be, numbers that are small frighten people who don’t understand the numbers. I’m sorry, well, okay, I’m not really sorry, but if you’re worried than 6gb of on-disk data means the game is going to be short, your opinion is pretty dumb.
Is Minecraft too short, Elite not have enough gameplay? Is X-com over with all too quick?
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The upcoming Silent Hill HD Collection is not really a collection, nor much of an HD Collection. Bundling two games together used to be called a … well, bundle. Collections generally consist of all games in a particular series, but sometimes a subset instead. However, Silent Hill HD Collection contains only two games, Silent Hill 2 & 3. It isn’t a collection of Silent Hill games, since it doesn’t contain any of the newest games. It isn’t a collection of Team Silent games since it doesn’t contain the original Silent Hill. Nor is it even a collection of PS2-era, Team Silent, Silent Hill games, since it doesn’t include Silent Hill 4. Regardless of how people feel about any of these games, a collection should contain them. Continue reading
Ever had your FRAPs video footage come out really dark?
Don’t worry, there is an easy fix / how-to that converts your FRAPs AVI into a common format that won’t have the darkness problem. Continue reading
Corrosive Truths
Next Generation Features & A Reply to IGN
I co-wrote a couple of articles recently.
Next Generation Features – With a rapidly approaching next generation of consoles, it seems like a good time to look back on the last generation and the lessons we have learned from it to try and make the next one even better than before. These are the features we think should be in the next generation that either were not in this generation, or were not universal.
RE: 12 Innovations We Want From PS4 and Xbox 720 – Recently IGN published a list that supposedly “predicts 12 innovations for Microsoft and Sony’s next generation of games consoles”.
After rightfully rejecting Nintendo from the discussion, IGN quickly gets on with the list.
First item on the list, first sentence.
“We don’t need a hard drive.”