Pendulum’s AlterEgo facial performance division is trying to break through the uncanny valley effect with it’s CGI human and humanoid animation. The uncanny valley is a phenomena where the closer to life-like a robotic or CGI representation of a human is, the more it bothers those viewing it.
The company, which is handling animation for Silent [...]

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The Call of Duty game series is set to return to World War 2. Call of Duty World at War takes players into the Pacific Theater of combat operations during World War 2. I’ve posted links for two trailers that should give you a great look into how the final game is going to play. [...]

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The first incarnation of Line Rider could hardly have been any simpler. You used your mouse to draw a line on a white screen, hit play, and watched a little character sled down the hill you just created–that was more or less it. But despite this stark minimalism, the game picked up a massive following, [...]

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In a little more than three months time, gamers will have successfully navigated the holiday 2008 shopping season and gained unfettered access to such games as Gears of War 2, Resistance 2, MotorStorm 2, Fable II, and Mercenaries 2 along the way. That holiday season kicks off aptly this week with the traditional mid-August launch [...]

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Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2 is Tomy and D3’s upcoming role-playing game for the Nintendo DS that will feature new characters and online multiplayer. Although not a sequel, Path of the Ninja 2 will have an original storyline in the Naruto universe so that fans can expect something new and potential fans can dive [...]

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EDINBURGH–As the managing director of Codemasters, Rod Cousens is well placed to talk about development in the UK, and he used the Edinburgh Interactive Festival to extol the virtues of working within the UK in light of recent debate on the matter.
Rod Cousens on stage.”GRID cost us £6.8m to develop,” said Cousens. “But as we [...]

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Think a replica Master Chief helmet is hardcore? It won’t be when a far-too-dedicated Gears of War 2 fan tears it in half with his replica, chainsaw-equipped Lancer assault rifle this November. GameSpot reports that Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for an exclusive $139.99 Gears of War 2 bundle that’ll come with said replica Lancer, making [...]

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Cryptic’s Leonard Nimoy-equipped world reveal for Star Trek Online may be set for tomorrow, but the Associated Press (via Kotaku) has passed on a few details a little early (including the pictured logo).
Star Trek Online players will create a character that can be modeled either after one of Star Trek’s famous alien species, or based [...]

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It seems that somebody has been sticking their sword into the wrong dungeon. The story goes that an Age of Conan player summoned a GM and convinced them to engage in a little “role-playing”. The GM then took the player to a more secluded portion of the game world and (after a bit of hemming [...]

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Epic President Mike Capps was a little frustrated at the lack of love the PC version of Gears of Wars got:
“I think it’s bullshit,” he told MundoRare. “Because what we did was take a great game, Gears of War 1 for Xbox 360, made it run at higher resolutions and added three new hours of [...]

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