All my shaders got an update, hopefully I wont have to do that again for a while. Blog Post: http://blog.leocov.com/2010/09/maya-realtime-shaders-big-update.html Download Link: http://blog.leocov.com/p/downloads.html Have Fun!
As much as we could hope for that concept to be the real one here's a link explaining it. http://cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/2007/09/fan-made-cloverfield-monster-art.html Damn and that Whale/Crab like monster was fucking awesome and the huge lice creatures. OH MAN!!
The Green Hornet just reminded me that there's a Bruce Lee movie on the way, out Nov 25th. I can't wait. For all you Lee fans out there: http://teaser-trailer.com/2010/09/bruce-lee-my-brother-movie-trailer.html
Use mud box to bake the ao as a texture and you can change the ao settings to get a cavity map ao. Link to a tut to get you started http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/09/12/tutorial-extract-a-cavity-map-in-mudbox/
Aesir: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/microsoft-confirms-zune-will-play-games-by-july-2008/ This is good news to hear. I always thought the XNA was a waste if you couldn't distribute the game to anyone other than other XNA members.
http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/09/10/microsoft-closing-ensemble-is-the-right-thing-for-our-business/ It sounds less like they were in financial trouble, and more like they saw a way to make more money with less people, if I understand it correctly.
Square held a community event for the biggest LoK fans out there.. and we got some first impressions. All positive! http://legacyofkain.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Baziel/Nosgoth:_First_Looks http://lucinvampireslair.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/game-nosgoth-pc-pre-release-review.html
People in the west, on average, are ~10% bigger than the people living in the middle east. http://www.interbasket.net/news/4385/2009/09/average-height-by-country-males-20-years/ Not sure if it is an official survey (I assume not), but it gives a sense of the right direction.
Thanks guys! :D Here's an article hot off the press from Game Informer with a new Gameplay trailer. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/09/08/battle-chasers-meets-final-fantasy-in-ex-darksider-developer-kickstarter.aspx
http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/09/26/pre-owned-market-had-big-effect-on-halo-says-bungie-man/ Yeah, isn't it though? So what do you guys think about this? It's becoming a hotter topic as more developers talk about it, but is it really such a big issue?