Ours is the Speculum.
No it isn’t.
This morning, Hasbro launched a public vote to replace one of its older, ‘classic’ Monopoly playing tokens (car, thimble, boot, dog, boat, hat, iron and wheelbarrow) with a new-fangled one: robot, ring, cat, chopper or guitar.
Our heads say robot but our hearts say cat.
Vote here.
Naturally, the games company already have a combined old-and-new special edition planned for next month.
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A vision of how a 16-bit Sega/Atari Calvin and Hobbes game might have looked.
Admit it. You hit the start button. Perhaps more than once.
Having already released a demo of the first fifteen minutes of gameplay, Irrational Games has now debuted the the entire cut-scene opening sequence of the upcoming Bioshock Infinite wherein Booker DeWitt begins to unravel the mystery that lies behind the floating city of Columbia.
The game is pre-ordering now for release on March 26th, 2013.
A first-person POV trailer for the upcoming crowdfunded auto game Project C.A.R.S. from London’s Slightly Mad Studios, due for multi-platform release midway through next year.
A simple but rather brilliant short by Eric Ko for Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival.
Devin Supertramp’s short film of a real life Altair from Assassin’s Creed, performed by freerunner Ronnie Shalvis.
Sure, the get-up is rather incongruous in the modern setting and the moves are, for the most part, limited by gravity and real world physics, but it’s still pretty impressive cosplay.
Behind the scenes video here.
An impressive tech demo of CryEngine – the new and improved Crysis 3 3D graphics engine. This new iteration includes:
..real-time volumetric cloud shadows, pixel-accurate displacement mapping, tessellated vegetation, composite 3D lens flare, procedural HDR flares and shapes, real-time global illumination, dynamic water volume caustics, real-time volumetric fog shadows, real-time area lights and cloth simulation.
Essentially it’s as close an approximation of the real world as certain friends of ours are likely to get for the next twelve months.
