CGtalk – Unofficial Game Art Challenge **Update**

Here is waht ive been working on, on and off for the past couple of weeks, infact i think overall time spent on it is around 1 and a half hours, so not much time really, but its a retivly simple model.

 

CGtalk – Unofficial Game Art Challenge

Well Im going to be entering the CGtalk – Unofficial Game Art Challenge, to find out more check this LINK

Im not sure what it will be like but I will give it a good go, I will keep you uptodate with whats going on along with my thread, but I will come up with some concepts then decide if im going to do it fully or not. 

PS3 Interface

Well here is a video pretty much showing all the features of the PS3 UI.

E3 2006 show

Well its finally here and those lucky enough to be at E3 are playing those really nice games made for the PS3, but what are they really like?, well as soon as ive finished reading all the reveiwes of whats on show and gathered some screenshots, I will post it here for you to read (at least you wont have to go searching for it).

But just for starters, I dont know if you recall me showing shots of a game called Untold Legends, and the graphics looked a bid pants, but gameplay was meant ot make up for this… Well they guys over at SOE have got their act together and have updated the graphics and it lookign rarther spiffy now, but all tihs will come later. 

Sonys Pre-E3 Confrence

Well Ive just finished watching Sonys Pre-E3 confrence video and it showed a fair few videos of games up and coming, plus some features via the new pad and PSP.

Games on show

1. Gran Turismo HD (E3 2006 demo)
2. Coded Arms
3. Lair
4. Gundam
5. Enchanted Arms
6. Warhawk (Pad demo)
7. MGS4
8. untitled (naughty dog games)
9. Genji 2
10. Getaway
11. Resitance fall Of man
12. Eight Days
13. Afrika (working title)
14. EA Tech Demos (Tiger Woods, NBA)
15. Heavenly Sword
16. Amoured Core 4
17. Hot Shots (everybodys golf)

Some of these videos were pretty much a let down, including GT-HD which wasnt anything to talk about, basicly it was GT4 on PS3 running at High Definition resolutions, no GT5 or any other cool looking stuff. But the rest of the demos were ok nothing amaizing apart from one or two cool looking things Like the EA demos, whiched really looke great and Hot Shots (Everybodys Golf) this looked amaizing. Also Afrika looked quite interesting ,but not much in the way of gameplay. The rest seemed to do what the development people set out to do.

Sony also Announced the price of the PS3…

USA – 20gb $499 || 60gb $599
Japan – 20gb Y59,800 || 60gb open price
Europe – 20gb E499 || 60gb E599

Which in my opinion is not too bad seeing as you get a Blue-Ray player and a consle, but what Sony dosnt mention is that the 20gb Harddrive version has No HDMI, No card reader and No WIFI.

So the pad and console design, whats been changed? Well on the consle side of things, no too much its still that sleek shape and it will be only available in balck for the forseeable future, but the pad has gone through some radicle changes… sort of anyway.

The have ditched the rumbble featuer and faviour of a Nintendo Wii style motion senser, which is a big blow, Sony have said that the rummble featuer was causing problems with the senser, but we all know that this is rubbish, its because they lost the lawsuit over patents on the rummble featuer in PS2 pads, allong with the new senser, it is also lighter and has a new PS logo thing (button???) between the start and select, along with 4 lights on the back.

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E3

Well E3 2006 is on its way, only one day to go till the whole world sees what the PS3 is fully capable of, and what great stuff will be on Sonys ultra powerful console. If you havent seen anything from E3 yet, here are some floor plans for the show.

West Floor

South Floor

Kentia Floor

Concourse Floor

2nd Level Floor

These images are from the official E3 website.
Click the top logo to go to the official site.

The Darkness H-R screens

Here some High resolution screen shots from the upcoming game "The Darkness". This game will be multi platform, and to me the graphics are looking like a High res version of Half Life 2, but we will soon see at E3 what it looks like to be played.

Click the pic to go to the collection of shots.