Mar 4, 2009

There have been attempts, others succesful ones, on making unlikely games in the first person. We have had First Person Shooters, First Person Role Playing Games, First Person Turn Based Strategy, now we finally have a First Person Platformer. What’s a First Person Platformer you ask? Imagine playing Super Mario Brothers through the eyes of Mario himself....

Aug 30, 2008

Tired of the standard shooter with first person view? Tired of getting shot from afar ‘cuz you didn’t know your foot was visible through your cover? Gears of War brings 3rd person firefight into the limelight and we are loving it! Developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft, the game delivers hardcore singleplayer story driven mayhem and...

07.02.08 A few days after Blizzard announced its new game Diablo 3, we see in the FAQ a few notable things regarding the new release. First, it will run on both Directx 9 and Directx 10.1. Did you guys read that? Directx 10.1. Not Directx 10. Nvidia (makers of the popular Geforce cards) does not support 10.1 only version 10. Only ATI supports 10.1! Perhaps the...

A year or so ago we learned about a revolutionary new product called a dedicated physics card. What is this you ask? Alam niyo yung mga lumilipad na bakal pag may sumasabog sa laro mo? O yung pag may tumatalsik na tao pag nababaril? These are representations of a game’s physics engine. Instead of making your CPU (yung Intel o AMD part ng pc niyo) calculate...