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.
In an interesting tid bit from China, Jet Li, who is an avid MMO player and martial artist gave an interview at an Age of Wushu global PvP tournament. The interesting part of this story is not only does he play but also believes that gaming can be a sport. The Chinese born wushu champ explains, “If poker card games and chess both have the players sitting down … [ Read More... ]