In a recent interview, GameStop CEO J. Paul Raines expressed a lot of enthusiasm for Microsoft’s yet to be announced next gen Xbox. The elusive hardware which is codenamed Durango and dubbed Xbox Next or Xbox 720 by fans is surrounded by many rumors. The 2 most controversial issues are it’s always-online DRM requirements and the other being that it may block used games. While this interview in no … [ Read More... ]
Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth recently tweeted about his feelings on devices being “always on”. He expresses that people without internet should “get with the times“. Furthermore, he disregarded users who are in rural areas that don’t have a stable internet connection.
Check out the tweets below…
Quite a view there. Even if he was just joking, it doesn’t show a very customer oriented way of thinking. … [ Read More... ]
The open world action RPG The Witcher 3 was confirmed to be DRM-Free by developer CD Projekt RED. The studio is apparently trying to away from DRM completely. Game designer Maciej Szczesnik stated, “We are trying to get rid of DRM. If someone wants to pirate a game, eventually he will.” Adam Badowski, the managing director, then added, “Which is bad, of course, but you can’t do anything … [ Read More... ]
For those eager to learn more about Kojima Productions’ FOX Engine, this should be quite interesting. It’s a demonstration of the engine and some of the tools used by Hideo Kojima’s company for developing games with this new technology. It also shows us how they model detailed faces in addition to demonstrating the time of day changes in the FOX Engine.
Here some pictures to look at which … [ Read More... ]