Tag Archives: gaming

FPS

A heavily armed, nowhere-near-complete but nonetheless nostalgic strafe through twenty years of FPS classics.

Games featured: Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Dark Forces (1995), Quake (1996), Quake 2 (1997), Half-Life (1998), Quake 3 (1999), Project IGI (2000) ,Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001), Battlefield 1942 (2002), Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003), Doom 3 (2004), Battlefield 2 (2005), Crysis (2007), Arma 2 (2009), Metro 2033 4A (2010) and Battlefield 3 (2011)

Ah, the wasted hours. The lumbar trauma. The grotesquely calloused thumbs.

Good times.

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The Pinel & Pinel Arcade PS Trunk:

This insane set includes a PS3, two Formula 1 racing seats with Thrustmaster steering wheels, a selection of 24 PS 3 games, an 1,800-watt sound system, a Playstation Move camera, four Move controllers, two Move shooter guns, four PS3 wireless buzzers, four Dualshock 3 controllers, two arcade fighting sticks, a 55″ Sony TV, and four pairs of 3D glasses.

The whole thing packs away into a custom 130 x 140 x 90cm calfskin-covered trunk

Price: just north of €70,000

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A fan-made trailer, showcasing some of the landscape creation capabilities of 3D planetary engine Outerra, which refines elevation details to centimeter accuracy using fractal algorithms.

Essentially this allows for ‘open-world’ gaming. Imagine an entire, massively detailed, go-anywhere planet’s worth of Fallout or Skyrim. Soon.

Tech demo here

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