THQ Selects NVIDIA PhysX
Technology for Use in Its Worldwide Studios has word of another licensing
win for NVIDIA and its PhysX game physics technology, saying simply that THQ
"has selected NVIDIA PhysX technology for use by its studios worldwide." The
rest of the press release recaps NVIDIA's view of what makes PhysX so great,
along with a quote from THQ's Roy Tessler on that same topic: "The NVIDIA PhysX
technology delivers astonishing physics effects and will help us develop the
most competitive and innovative products in the marketplace. With support for
both the CPU and the GPU, PhysX technology allows us the creative freedom to
design compelling environments and deliver truly immersive gaming experiences."
How many bites does it take to get to the center of the Ensemble Studios story?
One,
two,
three... err, three! That's the scope of the "Age of Ensemble" retrospective
on Crispy Gamer looking back at the history of the RTS developer through the words of the ensemble at Ensemble and industry pundits, even as
the studio
being folded by owner Microsoft Game Studios. The extensive
series of articles concludes with a frank look at what Ensemble was up against
by the end of its run, battling burnout after working on the same
Age of
Empires dynamics for a decade amid industry chatter that the RTS genre was
dead, followed by the
Halo Wars project, and the simultaneous
difficulties inherent in creating an RTS game from a shooter that's targeted
towards consoles.
The
Dragon Age:
Origins Gallery now offers the second video covering "bringing the Grey
Wardens to life" in
Dragon Age: Origins, BioWare's upcoming role-playing
game. The clip features developer narration along with screenshots and gameplay
videos introducing Grey Warden characters and their back-stories. The clip also
mentions that voice acting veteran
Peter Renaday will be
supplying the voice of Duncan in the game.
A new patch is now available for
SilentHeroes updating this modification for
Battlefield 2 to version
1.2. Silent Heroes centers around a fictitious conflict between Sweden and
Norway, or as they editorialize: "The MOD about the OTHER made-up war against an
oil-rich country." The new version adds new features along with seven new maps,
and the installer is available as a "slim-pack" for those with version 1.1 and
all the maps already, a full installer that works with a "vanilla" version 1.1
installation, and an installer for Macs, as well. Thanks
Ant and
Planet
Battlefield.
The
BFPirates Website now offers a beta 2 of version 2.0 of this seafaring
modification for
Battlefield 2, saying that the upcoming full release of
version 2.0 will be in cooperation with EA: "Within a couple of weeks, EA has
offered to help us unleash BFP2 Yarr2 onto the masses at large. We hope to make
that release as solid as possible - and whereas our devs and testing team have
done a fanstastic [sic] job getting out as many wrinkles as possible, here's
your chance to pitch in and help us find any remaining issues." For those who
participate in the beta, they promise a small patch to update it to the full
version so you don't have to download the whole mod again when it makes its full
release. Thanks
Ant and
Planet
Battlefield.
Well, today is the solstice, marking the first day of winter here in the
northern hemisphere, and of course summer for those of you south of the equator.
I guess this means that the additional snow we got last night actually fell
during the autumn, though considering there's about a foot of it, that seems a
little incongruous.
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