Realtime Worlds seeks community officer for APB
Realtime Worlds just sent out a job ad for a community officer to work on upcoming MMO, APB.You'll need two years experience doing something similar and you'd be wise to bear in mind the firm's based in Dundee, Scotland.
Acer’s G24 gaming monitor with world’s best contrast
Clearly, Acer's G24 monitor is the only monitor capable of matching your high-performance Predator gaming rig. It's orange... or "metallic copper" if you work in Acer's arts and charts department. Bounced around trade shows for the last month, the 24-inch LCD is now officially featuring a proclaimed 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio which, according to a Acer, is a world's first for monitors. Now the specs: 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, 2-ms response, 400-nit brightness, and a host of Acer image tweaking and color management tech meant to brighten images and avoid ambient light reflection. Around back you'll find PC-friendly DVI and game-console/Blu-ray friendly HDMI too. Unfortunately, it's dateless and priceless just like Britney's little sister.Mainstream media are getting hipper to gaming world
I don't know whether many of you noticed, although you probably should have, that video games have been getting some interesting mainstream ink lately with perspectives by folks we wouldn't expect to hear on this subject.Yes or No to Halo 4?
Four of gameplayer's editors have engaged in this article regarding whether or not their should be a Halo 4, and if there should be, what guidelines Mircosoft should keep to in its development. It asks you what you think, to?"But with Halo 3 bringing the trilogy to a nice, neat close, and developer Bungie Studios released from under Microsoft's wing, the most bankable star of this generation is in limbo. Microsoft are continuing on with the Halo brand with – of all genres – the RTS Halo Wars, and Peter Jackson – yeah the movie guy – is busying himself in the episodic Halo Chronicles concept, but what of a Halo 4? A true sequel. Will it happen? Can it happen, Should it happen? We put the question to four of our best…"
Joystiq interview: Treyarch’s Jeremy Luyties on James Bond
Joystiq writes: "During out whirlwhind tour through the new Quantum of Solace game, we were able to spend a few minutes speaking with Treyarch's Jeremy Luyties, who serves as design director on the title. Luyties has worked on everything from Return to Castle Wolfenstein to Call of Duty 3 to the heavily Bond-influenced classic No One Lives Forever. Find out what secrets he spilled about the new Bond title after the break.Q: How final is what we saw, graphics wise?
A: It's still got a bit to go, it's still a work in progress. It's definitely moved along, but we'll be going through optimization tweaks, texture changes, things with sight and vision. There's definitely a lot more to tweak to get more out of it, but you can already see the texture and depth in the carpet, the shining of the wood panels, the bump-mapping with the lights, and so on."
Interview: Games for Windows’ Kevin Unangst
Microsoft's Kevin Unangst has perhaps the most difficult-to-pronounce name in the industry (hint: according to a user on a genealogy board, it's "u-nanks"), and as the Senior Global Director of the Games for Windows initiative, probably one of the more challenging jobs. Case in point: At a press event held last week to promote the initiative as well as the latest games that will bear the brand, there were only two PC-exclusive titles on show.A good deal of ink has been spilled pondering the perceived decline of the PC gaming market, much of it wrongheaded. But judging from what was on show at this event, it's hard to come away not feeling that, in at least some sectors, PC gaming is suffering from something of an identity crisis. Unagnst is more than aware of all the hand-wringing that's been going on, and at last week's event, GameSpy picked his brain about the state of PC gaming and what the Games for Windows initiative has in store for it beyond a logo and a few Best Buy endcaps.
Blizzard Comments On Classes In Diablo 3
A Blizzard game developer has commented on the game's five classes, emphasizing on their diversity and uniqueness as characters, unlike the overlapping and relatively bland classes in Age of Conan.Intel’s Gelsinger Sees Clear Path To 10nm Chips
CRN writes: "Intel (NSDQ:INTC) sees a "clear way" to manufacturing chips under 10 nanometers and when the semiconductor industry transitions to 450mm silicon wafers around 2012, the number of companies that run their own fabs will drop into the single digits. Those were just the first of a series of predictions Intel's Pat Gelsinger rattled off for media gathered in San Francisco Monday in a preview of celebrations surrounding the chip giant's 40th anniversary next month.Intel marks its founding July 18, commemorating the date in 1968 when Fairchild Semiconductor physicists Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore struck out on their own to found Integrated Electronics, Intel for short."
Diablo III: How To Make A Proper Sequel (Pt. II)
The flood of info regarding Diablo III has provided great food for thought, and especially surprising was all the new data regarding Diablo III's storyline.With this in mind, Solivigant, the original author of "Diablo III vs Fallout 3" on Destructoid continues his previous "How to make a proper Sequel" piece, this time by analyzing how Diablo 3's story will be experienced by the player and he compares it shortly with what we know about Fallout 3, which isn't really much. Read on!