Forza Motorsport has always been an exclusive title like how Gran Turismo is exclusive to Sony PlayStation, and since the latest GT5 has a Top Gear track in it, Turn 10 Studios isn’t going to lose out to the exclusivity too, and has hired The Stig to help out in developing Forza Motorsport 4, somehow.
Besides The Stig, another Top Gear’s icon and one of its hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, is also said to be featured in the game, for reasons whatsoever. Not sure how they’re going to implement Jezza in the game. As a co-driver yapping up and down perhaps?
Roxio is working with Nokia yet again in terms of the Angry Birds game. The new Angry Birds Magic is a new instalment specifically for Nokia’s C7 smartphone, and comes with a unique NFC-enabled trick, which is demonstrated at the MeeGo Conference.
The tricks are simple. Tap two phones together, and five new levels are gained. Do it with another C7, and you’ll score another batch of never-before-seen trials and tribulations. Of course, I’d agree that looking for someone using a Google Nexus S is more likely than looking for someone with a Nokia C7, although it’s not entirely impossible. Google luck!
Gaming on the mobile tablet platform has gained momentum these two years. While we get plenty of childish games like Angry Birds with very simple 2D graphics, there are a few titles out there that are actually quite impressive with their 3D games. Don’t believe? Then check out the video above and below.
Madfinger has demonstrated their Shadowgun game using an Acer Iconia Tab A500 powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 and Android Honeycomb. Look at those graphics, that’s something very awesome and PC-like 3D graphic effects there!
Available on both the Tegra Zone app and Android Market, Shadowgun promises to bring console-quality graphics and performance to mobile platforms — presumably with the extra geometric detail and high-res textures we’ve seen in other Tegra 2-tailored games. Madfinger is also developing a version for devices powered by NVIDIA’s forthcoming quad-core processor, alluringly known as Project Kal-El. iOS version is also said to be on the way, so hold your horses, iFags!
Do you know Liberty City? If you’ve played Rockstar Games GTA, then you’ll know. It’s the virtual city in the game. But do you know that you can actually find this city in Google Map? Yes, the NBTD programmers in gta4.net have just recreated Liberty City into Google’s server using the Google Maps API, and it’s even available on Google Street View because they crazily cobbled together 80,000 screenshots to provide full-blown Street View!
“All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren’t very interesting,” writes Adam from GTA4.net. “There’s around 3,000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80,000 in-game screenshots (captured with a script) and the final set of tiles consist of over a million images.”
Head to Google Maps, type “Liberty City”, and it’ll direct you to some place east of Wichita, Kansas, and dance around as if you’re actually playing GTA Liberty City.
What do you think about a video called “EA PWND”, especially when the video is related to EA Games? Well, EA UK has an unfortunately titled web video series by the name of “EA PWNED”, where a very pretty blonde and bald monk goes around and talk about the gaming industry.
This time, they’re focusing on footage of Battlefield 3, straight out of DICE’s Swedish headquarters. The video talks about the audio in the game, the engine, the art and, perhaps most notably, the creation of the Back to Karkand map which updates one of Battlefield 2′s most popular maps with the impressive new Frostbite 2 tech.
This trailer is supposed to be something that Blizzard will be showing at the upcoming event E3, but was leaked onto the Internet on Saturday night. Obviously many of the copies are taken down by now, but there are still a few that’s popping up on YouTube. Looking at the trailer, it seemed that the government has taken Sarah Kerrigan for a new generation Ghost training or sort, and has gone rampant. W00t! Exciting!
I’m not sure whether to think that this is funny, or very torturing. Apparently, a 54-year-old prisoner in China called Liu Dali (not his real name) would be breaking rocks and digging trenches in the coalmines of north-east China by day, and by night, build up credits in online games that prison guards would then use to trade for real money. And he’s not alone.
According to Guardian, there are more than 300 prisoners being forced to earn virtual gold for the guards. Sounds like a good business to run a prison.
“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor,” he told the Guardian newspaper. “There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [between $616 and $924] a day. We didn’t see any of the money. The computers were never turned off.”
Gold farming, the practice of mining massive amounts of gold and then selling it on for hard cash, is an increasingly big problem in China and the country essentially banned it two years ago by making the practice of selling virtual goods for real money illegal. In 2009, WoW Insider reported that the gold farming industry was generating about $1 billion worldwide and as much of 85 percent of gold farmers were residing in China.
We’ve seen the Wake Island concept art for the Battlefield 3 multiplayer map, and now DICE has released two more concept arts of the maps which are part of the ‘Back to Karkand’ map pack, which is free with Battlefield 3 pre-orders and will be released as paid for DLC when Battlefield 3 comes out.
The Back to Karkand pack also adds a collection of Battlefield 2 weapons, remade to work in the Frostbite 2 engine. The lead designer on Back to Karkand also developed the excellent Vietnam expansion for Battlefield: Bad Company, which is good news for players who loved the original incarnations of Back to Karkand, The Gulf of Oman, Sharqi and Wake Island.
Did Activision’s upcoming blockbuster and inevitable-record-breaking first-person shooter game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer impress you? No? Well, Activision knew that, because Battlefield 3’s 12-minute gameplay totally slapped it with a large tout, and then some. So, how do they make up with the shitty graphic? Well, by releasing a few more in-game footage screenshots, of course.
The two ‘intentionally leaked’ images are what Activision called in-game screenshots, and well I can’t deny that they do look good. Hope Activision didn’t shop that up!
Dude’s swimming in pond full of sperms! Yikes!
Dude’s trying to peek on the ladies using his uber Infra-Red night-vision telescope on his rifle!
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