Hinterland Studio – a new studio formed by veterans of Relic, BioWare, Riot & Volition veterans – has announced today the development of its first title, The Long Dark. The Long Dark is said to be a first-person post-disaster survival simulation, set in the aftermath of a geomagnetic super storm that has destroyed North America’s technology infrastructure, that is aimed for an episodic release. The game is supported by the Canada Media Fund, and Hinterland will be launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on September 16th. Continue reading The Long Dark Announced – New FPS From Ex-Relic, BioWare, Riot & Volition Veterans→
Fact: Jurassic Park is a franchise that deserves a high quality triple-A game. Fact: Dreamworks has no plans for a new Jurassic Park game. Fact: CryEngine is an engine that can be used to create a mind-blowing game/mod based on this dino franchise. Fact: A lot of teams tried to create a Jurassic Park mod for Far Cry, Crysis and Crysis 2. Fact: All those teams failed to deliver. Fact: There is a new Jurassic Park project for CryEngine 3. Fact: We may never see it being released. Continue reading Jurassic Park Operations Is Another CryEngine 3 Project That May Never See The Light Of Day→
CryEngine modders and indie developers have posted some new screenshots from their upcoming projects and holy batman do they love lens flares. We strongly suggest putting your sunglasses on before viewing them because some modders went overdrive with those new lens flares effects that were introduced in the latest build of the free CryENGINE SDK. The highlights of this week are Revan1199’s and USSR_GRAND’s maps. These two modders have created two amazing maps that do not rely on those annoying lens flares, so kudos to them. Enjoy! Continue reading My Eyes Are Burning – New CryEngine 3 Screenshots Full Of Lens Flares Effects→
Our reader ‘Jonathan Gustafsson’ has informed us about a new, hilarious, mod for GTA IV that introduces a giant duck, a zebra, an ostrich and a tiger to Rockstar’s title. Naturally, there are all sorts of collision issues with these new animals, but the purpose of the mod is to provide some alternative fun experience (and it bloody as hell achieves that). As Jonathan noted, a download link for this mod – which was created by indirivacua – will be available next week, and you can view below a video from it. Enjoy! Continue reading GTA IV – “Giant Duck,Zebra,Ostrich And Tiger Animals” Mod Brings The Zoo To Rockstar’s Title→
During this year’s PAX Prime, Nvidia showcased its Fur Tech that will be used in The Witcher 3. In this demo, Nvidia showcased what its latest tech looks like, however it seems that this particular technique will require a really high-end graphics card in order to be enjoyed. In fact, Nvidia demoed its Fur tech at a mere resolution of 1024×768 and the Titan card was able to only push 65fps when there were two wolves on screen. Continue reading The Witcher 3’s Fur Tech Will Most Probably Bring Your GPUs To Their Knees→
A team of Final Fantasy fans got together and created an amazing live action trailer for an unofficial, fan-made, movie based on Final Fantasy VI. And even though the trailer looks great, we are pretty sure that Square Enix will send Bad Pixel a C&D letter. Which is precisely why the team has not started working on the full movie. Bad Pixel wants to acquire permission from Square-Enix to run a Kickstarter Campaign, however that will most probably won’t happen anytime soon. Let’s not forget that another FF movie – based on FFVII – had a Kickstarter and Square Enix took it down. Here is hoping that the Japanese studio will give the green light to Bad Pixel, though things are not looking ideal. Still, the trailer looks good so go ahead and take a look! Continue reading This Final Fantasy VI Fan-Made Movie Looks Great But May Never See The Light Of Day→
During this year’s SIGGRAPH 2013, Jonathan Dupuy, Eric Heitz, Jean-Claude Iehl, Poulin Pierre, Fabrice Neyret and Victor Ostromoukhov presented a new graphical technique that could be used in next-gen (or next-next-gen) games. This new technique called ‘Linear Efficient Antialiased Displacement and Reflectance‘ (LEADR) is a reflectance filtering technique for displacement mapped surfaces that preserves surface appearance at all scales, is compatible with tessellation and promises to be the fastest, seamless, and antialiased progressive representation for displaced surfaces. Continue reading New Linear Efficient Antialiased Displacement and Reflectance Technique Showcased→
Rebellion today announced that a sequel to Steam best-seller Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army is already in development and will launch this year on PC. As the press release reads, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 follows franchise stalwart Karl Fairburne and his three allies as they battle back into the dark heart of Berlin to put an end to the occult powers that reside there once and for all. Continue reading Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 Announced→
