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Halloween costume thread Halloween is almost here. Time to break out the outfits, get some cavities, and scare some small children. Let's see those costumes.	114 Last	Slum Nov 2007
Top 10 cities with the hottest women. [url="http://my.mmoabc.com/article/GurlWithSkillz/1771.html?login=no"]http://my.mmoabc.com/article/GurlWithSkillz/1771.html?login=no[/url] I concur. I was in stockholm for a few days, it was heaven.	47 Last	hawken Nov 2007
Forthcoming layoffs at EA, Mythic Studios [url="http://destructoid.com/restructuring-at-ea-mythic-studios-50896.phtml"]http://destructoid.com/restructuring-at-ea-mythic-studios-50896.phtml[/url] hope this doesn't affect any of you from poly…	53 Last	r13 Nov 2007
Cat Rescue 2007 We just put in new wood floors yesterday, and the cats were in the bedroom...or so I thought. That night, ALL night, meows were coming from UNDER our brand new floor. The pictures in the link below …	11 Last	Psyk0 Nov 2007
Interview help? Hey all, as most know im job hunting and ive just been asked for an interview next week, im shitting it. Its: 1. My 1st job interview 2. My 1st job interview Currently my lifes going to shit lol, a…	30 Last	Gav Nov 2007
Online photo editing Judging by the photo threads, there are a good few photographers on here, so I think this will be of interest. I know Adobe are bring out an online editor, but in the meantime.... I've just been pl…	3 Last	Joshua Stubbles Nov 2007
4 gigs of ram hey everyone i recently purchased 4 gigs of ram for my alienware M9750 laptop , i opened, putted it in etc and everything is fine , windows recognizes 3 gigs of ram etc. Still i almost find no boost…	45 Last	Vailias Nov 2007
NVIDIA's Forceware 163.75 Borked My Video I installed the latest greatest Forceware drivers (163.75) for UE3 because it wanted them for Gears of War. Everything seems to be great and fine except for video playback of any videos like .avi fi…	5 Last	Xenobond Nov 2007
Best Flash Animation EVER! I used to do flash animation back in highschool. This guy Adam Phillips blew me away when he came out with his "Brackenwood" cartoons. Never thought Flash could be pushed so far. Anyways he just …	12 Last	killingpeople Nov 2007
Man caught bumpin' uglies with a corpse. "Allegedly" at least. [url="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3794389&page=1"]http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3794389&page=1[/url]	7 Last	Ruz Nov 2007
EA Chicago shutting down Anyone here there? [url="http://www.destructoid.com/breaking-ea-chicago-closing-doors-update--52849.phtml"]http://www.destructoid.com/breaking-ea-chicago-closing-doors-update--52849.phtml[/url] Any…	3 Last	pliang Nov 2007
Get your extra slice of Portal Cake! [url="http://bethblog.com/?p=336"]Portal maps![/url]	4 Last	Emil Mujanovic Nov 2007
Soft is good, Leathery. . . not so much. [url="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/misnomers/sony-twat-camera-case-is-unfortunately-named-319477.php"]http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/misnomers/sony-twat-camera-case-is-unfortunately-named-319477.php[/url] …	3 Last	pliang Nov 2007
Computer dead!! Well, coming from a calm weekend on parents home up on the north of portugal, happy to my university flat, and push the computer button to turn it on.. guess what, it doesn't turn on... i do it again…	17 Last	Pedro Amorim Nov 2007
Hey why not another interview thread...??? Alright so lately I started poking around and decided it may be time to look for a studio gig and leave the world of freelance behind me for a bit. I have received emails back from a few companies…	49 Last	Spark Nov 2007
Where to get Concept Art ??? To Model. Just wondering if there was another thread where people can post concept art and then other people can use their concept art and model it???	5 Last	Steve Schulze Nov 2007
Gauss I hate you.... You and your goddamn laws. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law[/url] Not you Jack. The idiot who played too much with electricity. On anot…	14 Last	Steve Schulze Nov 2007
How much do you love your playstation....? [url="http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/11/05/son-attempts-to-hire-hitman-to-off-playstation-stealing-parents/"]as much as this kid?[/url]	7 Last	Steve Schulze Nov 2007
request some help, warhammer 40k concept? Ok this probably has to be the most hore'ish thing ive done on here, but im hoping someone can help me out ok long story short I want to create 2 buildings similar to Dawn of war specs, for the char…	6 Last	Steve Schulze Nov 2007
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS) Who's playing? I picked this up Tuesday, and am having trouble putting it down. The graphic style is very similar to Wind Waker, and includes the ocean travel. All the controls are performed with…	18 Last	steady Nov 2007
Crysis demo actually very international team, and probably only the bank is german, nevertheless the demo is out =) [url="http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=234474"]http://www.incrysis.com/forums/…	84 Last	Aghast Nov 2007
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn I've never played a Fire Emblem game. The one coming out today looks pretty good. Anyone ever played anything from this series? Opinions? Expectations? -Miles	3 Last	acc Nov 2007
hooray - first freelance gig Got my first freelance contract at realtime worlds in Dundee. I start end of November. Its a working from home gig, with occasional visits to work in house. I am stoked because the work they are doin…	38 Last	Empty Nov 2007
Hellgate Demo [url="http://www.gamedaily.com/games/hellgate-london/pc/game-features/hellgate-london-exclusive-demo/4251/67004/"]Hellgate demo[/url]	48 Last	pliang Nov 2007
upgrading laptop I bought a cheapish laptop in a hurry last year, but then realised it had a pretty terible video car setup - Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset. its meant to suppport shader model 2.0 , but that ap…	11 Last	notman Nov 2007
Child's Play 2007 [img]http://www.childsplaycharity.org/img/cp728.gif[/img] For those who aren't aware, Penny Arcades annual charity for Children's hospitals across the globe is happening. If you can't donate yourse…	3 Last	pliang Nov 2007
game test in a portfolio?? just wondering if it would be wise to put an art test that turned out good into my portfolio? I wasn't sure if there was some sort of etiquette involved with these things. Thanks!	22 Last	nitzmoff Nov 2007
Heavenly Sword - Cedric Seaut I dont know if you people already know about all this but I found Cedric Seaut's portfolio tonight and was really impressed by all the work done for heavenly sword. [url="http://www.khalys.net/BOOK_…	15 Last	chico Nov 2007
My first shipped title Spyro the Dragon: The Eternal Night. Our studio was contracted out by Krome Studios to do all the artwork for the game and it was a fairly messy ordeal, which I won't really get into. But to have wor…	36 Last	Steve Schulze Nov 2007
Visiting Seattle this week Hey polycounting peoples of Seattle, I'll be coming over to your beautiful city this Wednesday and leaving Friday morning, so if anyone has some time and would like to meet the person behind this si…	33 Last	Ferg Nov 2007
Unreal Tournament 3 the website is up: [url="http://www.unrealtournament3.com/us/"]http://www.unrealtournament3.com/us/[/url] I don't know about you guys but this is one of my most anticipated titles. I absolutely love…	233 Last	Davision3D Nov 2007
Post Halloween LAN for San Diegans! I know it's a tad late to post this, but I thought I'd let you all know about it anyways. [img]http://a564.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_170b59868bb4705981b48d537283b35b.jpg[/img] RSVP to m…	3 Last	MAUL0r Nov 2007
Contract examples? Hi everyone, I am a student and recently interested in working for a small private game project. It's volunteer job but I would like to have my work in this project in my portfolio(no matter the gam…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2007
freelance questiion jsut wondered guys if anyo of you have freelancing experience in the uk. I was basically wondering if I should go for a short term contract as a company employee or freelance , doing all my tax retur…	5 Last	hawken Nov 2007
Jgarland cake day++ Happy birhday, duder! Have a good one!	13 Last	ScoobyDoofus Nov 2007
Halloween TF2 fest! OK, so I know this is a tad late, but I am trying to get together a polycount game of TF2 tonight on the Polycount server. Post if you are interested! If we have enough, I will password the server…	35 Last	Soccerman18 Nov 2007
Empire Earth 3 Demo! So the game I've been making characters for the last 2 years+ for...just dropped a demo. If any of you are into RTS games, check it out! [url="http://www.fileplanet.com/182066/180000/fileinfo/Empire…	1 Last	Tumerboy Nov 2007
International Self Portrait Day - November 1st Hey guys! Dont forget! today is Self Portrait day! Paint/photograph/sculpt/macaroni+glue your ugly mugs and post them here: [url="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108950"]http://www…	0 Last	Slash Nov 2007
Workload Questions Hi all, Does anyone have ten minutes to answer 5 questions relating to 3D Modelling / Texturing. If you do please may you PM me.	0 Last	Showster Nov 2007
Internships? Ok, I'm getting pretty frustrated, and possibly because there aren't a ton of places with 'internships' in the gaming industry. I've only got a few weeks left to find a decent internship or I'll be t…	10 Last	rollin Nov 2007
Some more exercises So I've been working out pretty regularily (4-5 days a week) over the past 2 and a half years. It's helped out a lot, lost about 40 pounds according to the scale and I'm lifting 2-4 times as much we…	18 Last	Soccerman18 Nov 2007
GI Joe: A Real NonOffensive Muli-National Hero [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/30/wgijoe130.xml"]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/30/wgijoe130.xml[/url] and you people thought what h…	25 Last	notman Nov 2007
What should an ideal portfolio contain? I know im being very unspecific here but i hope someone can help me anyway. So what im asking is what a game company would want to see in a portfolio from a future intern. if now the company wasn't …	20 Last	Jonas Ronnegard Nov 2007
dundee and stuff well, just got back from dundee. nice place. finally seem to be conquering my flying phobia. I really enjoyed todays flight. I looked out of the window most of the way back:) great to see the towns b…	8 Last	Ruz Oct 2007
king of sandwich Hot bacon and refrigerated iceberg lettuce on toast. Not toasted, that would be mental, just in toast. Hot, cold and crunchy, its ace Let's have 'em then	49 Last	shape Oct 2007
I Am Legend [img]http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0480249/ver2.jpg[/img] Has anyone else seen the stuff for this movie? My god I can't wait. They just released another trailer today. Heres the links to the high de…	40 Last	Emil Mujanovic Oct 2007
Halo: the Movie redux You know that Halo movie that was bandied about a while back and then canceled? [url="http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/xbox360/game/news/article.jsp?sectionId=1006&articleId=20071029103958361055&…	8 Last	Jesse Moody Oct 2007
Closed About the earlier insident? Has that ever happen to you? Let's talk about it... To make this a positive and slightly unrelated I'd really want to know how everyone feels about spam, trolls, people like this? Personal feelin…	20 Last	MoP Oct 2007
Half life movie announced!!!! that would be pretty neat huh	32 Last	Flynny Oct 2007
what do u think Interface designer? give me advice hi I worked as a graphic designer. I quit 2D design and learned 3D and illustration to be a game artist. I think I'm doing very well. Here's the thing company likes me because of I can do both inter…	18 Last	backpack Oct 2007