Battlefield 3 - HD Texture Pack Comparison Graphics Test

Comparison of Battlefield 3 with and without the HD texture pack installed.

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Real Life Dragon: Skyrim

I don't see the point of these live action videos. But have look anyway.

The fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It is scheduled to be released on November 11, 2011 for  PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Modern warfare 3 strike package details

Assault Tier

4 Kills – Care Package
5 Kills – IMS – 3 or 4 placeable landmines that cannot be stunned or flashed
5 Kills – Predator Missile
5 Kills – Sentry Gun
6 Kills – Precision Airstrike
7 Kills – Attack Helicopter
7 Kills – Little Bird Flock – Mini Helicopters which patrol the map
9 Kills – Little Bird Guard – Big Helicopter that follows you from above and protects you
9 Kills – Mortar team –  5 predator missiles – all go off at the same time in different places
10 Kills – Talcon – Mini Tank Robot
12 Kills – AC130 (We cheer!)
12 Kills – Pavelow
15 Kills – Juggernaut Suit
15 Kills – Osprey Gunner Cps – You control a chopper gunner that also drops an emergency airdrop for your team mates.

 Support Tier

4 Kills – UAV
5 Kills – Counter UAV
5 Kills – Ballistic Duffel – Drop Juggernaught perk for the whole team, not jugg suit
5 Kills – Airdrop Trap – Drops a hacked care package
8 Kills – Sam Turret
10 Kills – Remote [Missile] UAV – Target enemies with missiles
12 Kills – Advanced UAV – Blackbird

12 Kills – Remote Turret – Sentry Gun that you can control
12 Kills – Stealth Bomber
18 Kills – EMP
18 Kills – Juggernaught Recon Armour – Care Package Drop Armour
18 Kills – Escort Airdrop – Same as the Osprey Gunner but you dont control the gunner or chopper and Drops 5 care packages, one will be hacked

Specialist Tier

2 Kills – You get 1 extra perk
4 Kills – Get another perk
6 Kills – Get another perk

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A few Skyrim snaps and vids

The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel. The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.

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Have a trek round nature

Nature Treks is “a non competitive, interactive experience aimed as an aid for relaxation and healing”.  Basically it’s about having a wander about in an alarmingly bloomy meadow/pond area while collecting particle effects



Very nice.

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Eleven Minutes of Final Fantasy Type-0

Square Enix has released a massive eleven minute gameplay trailer for Final Fantasy Type-0


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Square’s New Engine: Luminous Revolution

Square Enix has been experimenting with a brand new, proprietary graphics engine, which it calls Luminous.

So, they reckon the following shot shows what Luminous is capable of:

Not the most thrilling footage in and of itself, but cor blimey that’s some fancy, realistic lighting there.

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BioShock Infinite: Ken Levine talks

"The world of Columbia is like the world of the riot," explains Levine as we talk to him during the aftermath of urban chaos seen on the streets of England. "Think of periods of time like the LA riots or what the UK is going through right now. I don't want to make light of it, but when you normally walk down the street you don't think anybody's going to attack you, right? You don't feel that you're going to get into a conflict. In a riot, though, you don't know what's going to happen in a particular situation: you don't have confidence that you're going to be safe. At the other extreme you're not walking down the street shooting people with a machine-gun either; it's not appropriate - you're not in Stalingrad! It's a strange twilight world where you don't know what's going to set people off."

FLIGHT CONTROL
The situation Levine is discussing is an early part of the game that sees leftie rabble-rousers Vox Populi ripping their way through a posh district of Columbia - a place so proud of how American it is that the Stars and Stripes dangle at each corner and its stores sell Abraham Lincoln dolls and George Washington tupperware. As you, an agent called Booker, and rescued damsel-in-distress Elizabeth work your way through the streets, the chaos begins to mount.

 “A prophecy says that if Elizabeth falls then the city falls with her. So they want her dead.”

"Your homes are ours! Your live's are ours! Your wives our ours! It all belongs to the Vox!" screams a lunatic, as posh gents are shoved down steps in exchange for their monocles, billboards are ignited and dead postmen - considered the tools of the oppressors - are stacked in piles. Throughout it all, however, you don't have to fire your gun. An edgy tension reigns throughout, with you only having to warily aim your pistol at snarky looters to ward them off.

Full-scale conflict only arises should you intervene, which in Levine's demonstration case comes when he interrupts the execution of the final mailman. Had he been content to watch him die it's impossible to say how much longer the tension might have brewed...

"In BioShock you arrived after the party was over: after the struggle between Ryan and Atlas had been decided," explains Levine. "When you arrive in Columbia, Elizabeth has been trapped in this tower since she was a little girl - and you bust her out. That's essentially the catalyst that heightens the conflict. You really turn the heat up in a way that it wasn't before. The Vox Populi believe that the city is corrupt, so they want to demonstrate to the workers and the downtrodden of the world that this symbol of American imperialism has to fall. A prophecy says that if Elizabeth falls then the city falls with her. So they want her dead."

CLOUD COVER
Levine, for now, refuses to be drawn on Elizabeth's origins - just as he is on the presumably shared backstory of the Plasmid-esque Vigors that (to take a gulp of Bucking Bronco as an example) can hurl enemies, pots and pans alike up into the air for a nice slo-mo hover takedown. What's clear, however, is exactly why the Founders and Vox Populi are willing to go to war over this particular pretty lady: hers is the face that tore open a thousand space-time rifts.

Infinite toys with the scientific thought of the early nineteenth century just as much as it pushes its politics to the edge of insanity. Levine waxes lyrical about the minds of people like Heisenberg, who peeled back the origins of physics during this period (for our part, we nodded and smiled fairly uncomprehendingly at this point), but ultimately it's all wrapped up in Elizabeth's trick of accessing other dimensions, times and worlds.

In the current game demonstration she'll notice a tear behind a dying horse and try to save it, for example, only to unwittingly open up a doorway to a street outside a neon-clad cinema in alterno-1983. The dame's got talent, there's no denying it.

"We started to think about this notion of her interacting with other versions of reality" explains Levine. "It's a notion of things that don't necessarily exist in our reality, but that she can bring into the gameplay. What if she could bring in a skyline? What if she could bring in a turret? What if she could bring in ammo, or access to a new area that you can't get to? What if you're fighting the Vox Populi and you can summon in some Founders from another reality to fight for you? All these ideas came up in one meeting!"

“I've had the experience of knowing a girl once, dating her once actually, who had been with somebody who had abused her before.”

Vox Populi want Elizabeth dead, then, but the Founders - the Americana-fuelled imperialists that built this steam-powered Cloud City - want her back. The creature that misses her the most, however, is the Songbird. He's a giganto-budgie with attitude - his searchlight eyes reminiscent of the Big Daddy whenever a red lens clanks down inside his head to show he's in a temper. And boy, does the Songbird have a temper on him.

He's been built to nurture and protect Elizabeth, yet also to keep her captive. Now Booker has taken her away from him he'll rip off rooftops and throw you around like a doll to get both his revenge and his loved one back. For her part, in a moment of animated brilliance, Elizabeth shows that she would rather die than return to her tower - by delicately wrapping Booker's hands around her throat.

DEADLY SERIOUS

With the Songbird, quite brilliantly, Levine and his team at Irrational are using a videogame to reflect on the horrors of domestic abuse. "I've had the experience of knowing a girl once, dating her once actually, who had been with somebody who had abused her before," says Levine, contemplatively. "All the clichés you hear about are true. She would say that this guy had pushed her down the stairs when she was pregnant, that he had made her kneel in glass... all these unspeakably horrible things. Then she would make excuses for him, all the time. I knew the entire time that we were dating that she would go back to him. I could just see it. It was this tragic thing happening in real-time. And she did go back to him."

"That's not Elizabeth - Elizabeth is trying to get free - but she definitely has a connection," Levine continues. "This is the thing that raised her: this was the only contact she had. He brought her food, and her clothes and her books. He played with her when she was a kid. So she's conflicted. And I think conflicted characters are way more interesting than characters who act with a certainty."

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Redemption Single Player Trailer

The all-new single player trailer for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3. In the world's darkest hour, are you willing to do what is necessary?

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