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Timeshift live action promo video

[url="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24531.html"]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24531.html[/url] Pretty badass little promo there! I was happy to hear they went back and redid the game, the …
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nitzmoff

this weak i've been mostly playing...

FRETS ON FIRE [url="http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/"]http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/[/url] awesome
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ebagg

RIP big guy

Pavarotti passed away this morning [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti#Death"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti#Death[/url] his …
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Marcus Dublin

Meet the best iPods ever.

[url="http://www.apple.com"]New iPods[/url] jam
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flaagan

A real FireFox

I never knew (before yesterday) that the firefox is a real animal. Apparently it's a [url="http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Red-panda-orphan-makes-public.3139129.jp"]red panda[/url], and a cute lil' fe…
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hawken

The glass is

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Jesse Moody

UK Studio List..

I had a few spare hours of boredom and decided to make a [url="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108764727895714284408.0004395974a41a6a18a12&z=7&om=1"]Google…
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Flynny

I lived on the moon

Pretty sweet short movie called I lived on the moon : [url="http://www.yanim.net/ilotm/ilotm.htm"]http://www.yanim.net/ilotm/ilotm.htm[/url] The style was pretty neat, reminded me a little of Psycho…
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Steve Schulze

Sigg Jones - 3d short

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avyWjn1uV5I&mode=related&search="]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avyWjn1uV5I[/url] awesome movie [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Pedro Amorim

Medieval 2 Total War: Kingdoms

Hands down, the best expansion pack I've ever bought. They added so much content with this, it could have easily been sold for full price. There's something like 8 new factions, tons of new units an…
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HonkyPunch

MetroidPrime3

Any Polycounters get it yet? Impressions on controls, art, and complexity? Reviews I've read thus far, mark it pretty high.
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Spacey

Two Worlds! AW YEAH!

Worst game ever. Literally a must-see-to-believe game. I'm not sure they had anyone who knew how to rig or animate, despite crediting four different mo-cap studios. Art is, for the most part, atro…
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rooster

Hungry in Barcelona, congratulations Shimmer

I'm sure some of you have read a post in the Job Census 2007 but the man with the many jobs in a short time [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] has signed himself away to another one, still in Euro…
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Spark

Content Aware Image Resizing. Awesome!

[url="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/i-want-this-in-photoshop-immediately/"]http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/i-want-this-in-photoshop-immediately/[/url] Alright, I think I just wet mysel…
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Rhinokey

cool 360 degree holo display

[url="http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/researchers-develop-a-360-degree-holographic-display/"]http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/researchers-develop-a-360-degree-holographic-display/[/url] pretty …
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Asthane

So, I went to Pixar last night....

For the Ratatouille Friends and Family Screening [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Not going to spoil anything until it hits the theatre, I'll just say I was completely speechless at the end of…
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Emil Mujanovic

Halo Wars E3 Demo Video

Just wanted to show our full length E3 demo that we just put up on [url="http://www.halowars.com"]www.halowars.com[/url] It goes into a bit more length on units and what we are doing with controls, …
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Ruz

Rama Setu Bridge

just came on the news. the rama setu bridge [explained below] has been found by NASA sattellites. What other parts of the hindu religion could actually be real? Did indians discover the art of flight…
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indian_boy

Baltimore Comic Con

Is anyone going to the Comic Con in Baltimore next week? If so let me know. I was gonna go but now because of a schedule conflict I can not attend. I would be willing to re-imburse someone for the…
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steady

DJ Game?

Is anyone coming out with a game emulating a DJ? Like Guitar Heroes, it would comes with a toyish mixing platter. It's interface you see on the screen the crowd with your GUI incorporated, and how …
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Rwolf

Computer Ergonomics

Hi all So i created this thread because i feel that something like this is lacking in PC. something related to computer ergonomics and diseases related to the use of computers. Im doing physiothera…
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Wells

Endangered Machinery: Industrial Heritage Photos

[url="http://www.hebig.org/photos/"]http://www.hebig.org/photos/[/url] Some damn cool stuff, sure it'll come in as handy reference to some. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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nealb4me

Best Pagent Response!

Hehe, this was sent out at work, and I couldn't stop laughing. If she just kept her mouth closed, she might have had a shot. [url="http://www.maniacworld.com/what-is-she-talking-about.html"]Best Pa…
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nealb4me

Captain Dan and the Scurvey Crew - PIRATE HIP HOP

AUTHENTIC PIRATE HIP HOP... Sorry but I couldn't resist... Good share Geoff... [url="http://www.myspace.com/captaindan"]http://www.myspace.com/captaindan[/url]
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Jesse Moody

Programmers section?

Ok, you guys can shoot this idea down if you like but I figured it was worth a mention. How about adding a coders section? So all the guys coding the awesome engines we create for can have a place t…
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Uly

Concrete Games Art Test

So my next project (at the Art Institute of San Diego) is going to be the concrete art test. This art test has been done many many times at AI and I wanted to ask you guys whether or not this would …
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Cojax

Everything, Now!

[url="http://www.myspace.com/everythingnow"]http://www.myspace.com/everythingnow[/url] This band has the brother of a very close friend of mine in it and they are currently touring the US. I just s…
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Matabus

Wold in Conflict

[url="http://www.gamespot.com/event/download/world-in-conflict-demo/"]http://www.gamespot.com/event/download/world-in-conflict-demo/[/url] Anyone playing the demo of this? This is one of the best ga…
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Joshua Stubbles

Medal of Honour: Airborne

anybody downloaded and played the demo yet? i did on the 360, and its actually pretty great for an FPS on a console [controls wise]. The graphics were neat, the gameplay was great and fast paced, and…
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bounchfx

Rawkstar vs. ThE_BirD

Rawkstar vs. ThE_BirD [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCffjaZwC4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCffjaZwC4[/url] Thanks to Spark for inviting Mary Rose and myself to the party on Saturday ni…
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killingpeople

Monster Hunter Freedom 2

A pity there's no online play [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] nonetheless, you get hours of grinding gameplay. I'm getting this just for the cool game art and nothing beats spending hours to …
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Xenobond

PAX

Hey, just wondering if anyone else is going to be heading to PAX this year? If so we ought to meet up. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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coldwolf

Hacked iphone = free car

If I were this kid, I'd ask for a hot chick instead of some car. The photo doesn't exactly help his efforts to impress women with his supreme hacking skillz. [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070…
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Jesse Moody

ok REALLY off but a hip hop question

ok this question might sound really odd but just kinda curious how many people grew up in a more street scene area? (new yorkish , miami floridaish kinda atmosphere) that grew up doing break dancin…
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seforin

I'm in!

Started work today as senior character concept artist at Real U (a German game developer down here in Singapore working on a licensed MMO). This is also my first job in the game industry. I'm so thri…
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bearkub

Beautiful Katamari Demo on XBOX Live

DLing now, anyone tried it yet? I loved the first one, missed the second, have high hopes for the third.
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Tumerboy

Pwn Star Commercial

Haha I have some awesome friends. Check out this little commercial some fellow polycounters made. [url="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-gT-oe2s-c"]http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-gT-oe2s-c[/url] "Now I'm t…
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pliang

Shipping Favour from an American?

Hey, kinda a stab in the dark, but I just bought myself an HD-DVD drive for my 360 while down there for PAX so I could get the snazzy deals American's get. Problem is that now I need an American addr…
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Tulkamir

HAPPY BDAY STRUVE!!

Struve is a year older today:) So happy birthday joey, and hope it's a good one! Spark
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arshlevon

AVP2 trailer

[url="http://media.movies.ign.com/media/746/746237/vids_1.html"]http://media.movies.ign.com/media/746/746237/vids_1.html[/url] ugh. While it's nice to see they went with a hard R rating, now it loo…
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Richard Kain

Getting a little soggy

With all the rain and bad storms lately there's a lot of flooding and power outages going on. I've got no power at my place right now (I'm at work right now), about a foot of water in the basement, …
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Soccerman18

King of Kong

[url="http://www.billyvssteve.com/"]http://www.billyvssteve.com/[/url]
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Luxury

Dom War 3

So each forum has to run its own for the dom war now? Crazy. Im down for the preliminaries. Does anyone know if it just concepting or do they want models?
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ChaosEidolon

Demo Reel music

I wasn't sure where to post this, but I figured since this was less a technical issue and more general I'll post here. I was wondering about the legality of using copywritten music in a demo reel. …
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Tumerboy

Hot robotic arm ation!

[url="http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coorp_sites/en/1e70ac4a67fcfb11c12572d0004d3d44.htm"]http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coorp_sites/en/1e70ac4a67fcfb11c12572d0004d3d44.htm[/url] So sweet looking!…
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hawken

where do you hang out

well I enjoy hanging out in trendy bars these days,but we tend to buy a bottle of vodka before we go out snd sneak it in to our glsses in the pubs we visit.. so where do you guys hang out
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skankerzero

Party at my place!

Wish I thought of this sooner, but I have been kinda busy:) This saturday the 25th I will be having a birthday/get together. And wanted to let any polycounters close to the Dallas area to know abou…
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skankerzero

360 on the monitor?

hey [this is gonna be a small post] but i was wondering: can the xbox 360 be plugged into a computer monitor and deliver HD quality? cuz i don't have an HDTV and i dont wanna shell out 1300000000 dol…
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notman

screwing Delta for lost baggage

both of my bags in a us-domestic flight disappeared. one was eventually found, the other declared lost. it had all my artwork volumes since over 4 years ago... priceless to me. on their website the…
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Rick Stirling

how do i post mod?

I know this was probably gone over half a dozen times, but how do I post a pic of my stuff?
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gavku

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