March 2012 Blog Posts (19)

False Depth Tutorial by C.J.Teague - Nuclei3D

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Added by John Armstrong on March 26, 2012 at 15:09 — No Comments

FIFA holds top spot in UKIE Week 12 2012 UK Video Games Charts

UKIE Week 12 2012 UK Video Games Charts



Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 24 March 2012

  1. FIFA STREET - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  2. RESIDENT EVIL: OPERATION…
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Added by John Armstrong on March 26, 2012 at 9:00 — No Comments

UKIE Week 11 2012 UK Video Games Charts

UKIE Week 11 2012 UK Video Games Charts

 



Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 17 March 2012

  1. FIFA STREET - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  2. MASS EFFECT 3 - ELECTRONIC…
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Added by John Armstrong on March 19, 2012 at 10:07 — No Comments

BRITISH GAMES STUDIO TO LAUNCH SEARCH FOR GAME VOICE ACTORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITE

BRITISH GAMES STUDIO TO LAUNCH SEARCH FOR GAME VOICE ACTORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITE

 

A British games studio is to offer an opportunity to more than 3000 video game voice actors in a trial project which could revolutionise the way video games companies seek out game voice talent.

The Gamevoices network has offered an unnamed British game development company access to their impressive roster free of charge in the hope that the studio can secure the services of up to five or…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 15, 2012 at 13:14 — No Comments

Customer Care Management and MMO customers How to retain subscribers

By Mike Arnold

Godwins law tells us that…

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Added by Mike Arnold on March 14, 2012 at 17:22 — No Comments

UKIE Week 10 2012 UK Video Games Charts

UKIE Week 10 2012 UK Video Games Charts

 

Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 10 March 2012

  1. MASS EFFECT 3 - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  2. SSX - ELECTRONIC…
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Added by John Armstrong on March 12, 2012 at 9:53 — No Comments

HeroEngine lets people create video games that run on the internet and that let many people play together in simulated 3D worlds

Heroengine lets people create video games that run on the internet and that let many people play together in simulated 3d worlds. Heroengine is the complete solution for building online games. We supply the engine that renders

graphics and animation – like many other game engines – but we also include the server system that keeps track of all players and manages communication and…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 15:03 — No Comments

Moronica - Hard Rock Hyper Hero



What do you get when you mix an entertainer, composer, animator and comedian who has success with a San Francisco-based 15-piece funk party band called SuperBooty and has released gut-busting gems such as

Barfed In My Backpack, Big Boobed Babysitter, Roasted Rump and Who Took a Dump in My Lunchbox? You get

inspired to create a video game and a few albums on the…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 15:00 — No Comments

Gaming On Campus- What Do Gamers Play at College

Gaming on college today has reached a fever pitch. Students are more connected than ever creating their own

social gaming experiences through their phone, laptop, tablet, and consoles. With the seemingly constant release of first person shooter games, online competitions, and friend to friend combat in the sports arena, it’s no wonder

this generation of gamers saves part of…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:47 — No Comments

A COMIC BOOK HERO Interview: Andy Diggle

Andy Diggle, is the World Gaming Executives’ very own comic-book hero. Best known for giving seminal sci-fi

anthology 2000 AD a new lease of life at the start of the millennium, he was recently coopted onto the WGE advisory panel and will be lending more than decade’s worth of comicbook experience to the WGE community.

“I got approached by Ben Judd, an American producer,…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:37 — No Comments

The Writers Guild of Great Britain tell us how to write a video game

"at that stage the industry mirrored the state of affairs in the film industry in the 1960s, with writers, employers and everyone in between uncertain as to a starting point for contracts, conditions and negotiations. While writers were starting to be employed more widely throughout the sector, 

Not all writers knew that it was an industry that contained narrative, and many games…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:31 — No Comments

Yorkshires Video Games and Movies Gadget Man - Dan Walker

Yorkshireman Dan Walker got his big break when, after a grounding in automotive design, he was offered the opportunity to take the role of concept artist on the Batman Begins movie, kitting out the famous Batmobile, quite possibly the best episode of pimp My ride we’ve never seen.

Bruce Wayne owes a great debt to one canny Englishman and we’re not talking Michael Caine. Whilst…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:30 — No Comments

Richard Garriott - Game Developer, Astronaut- the Man Who Spawned the MMPORG Concept



The self-styled ‘Lord British’, son of a US astronaut, creator of the hugely successful ‘ultima’ game franchise, credited with spawning the concept of MMorpg, and most recently the star of the ‘Man on a Mission’ documentary which followed garriott’s quest to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an astronaut.

Since selling his origin Systems company to EA in 1992 his role in…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:30 — No Comments

Marcel Luske wants to clean up poker from Social Media Sites to Poker Pro tables

“From grass roots play for fun on social media sites like Facebook, to full time professionals, everyone needs to know the rules of whatever game it is they’re playing and also the way in which they should treat their fellow players, or poker etiquette. this is also covered in the Fidpa rule book.

“Wherever you play, not only is it down to the individual to check their own behaviour but…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:30 — No Comments

Super Martinet! The man behind the voice of Mario

Nintendo’s Super Mario, perhaps the most iconic game character of all time, a plumber from Brooklyn brought to life

in the Mushroom Kingdom by the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto. But Mario is not just a goodlooker, since 1985, the little man has also had plenty to say, voiced by the magnificent talents of Californian actor, Charles Martinet.



In this…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 14:00 — No Comments

UKIE Week 09 2012 UK Video Games Charts - on WGE

UKIE Week 09 2012 UK Video Games Charts

 



Top 40 Entertainment Software (All Prices), Week Ending 03 March 2012

  1. SSX - ELECTRONIC ARTS
  2. FIFA 12 - ELECTRONIC…
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Added by John Armstrong on March 5, 2012 at 10:25 — No Comments

Here we are

Wild Chaos Imagineering:

    Why?, because I never know what I am gonna be doing.

    With the help of my friends we have decided to tackle the world of MMORPG creation. We have all played various table-top and mmo's for years and years. In the ensuing chaos of making this rather large decision I just jumped right in with both feet first. Snatching up a HeroCloud from HeroEngine I started reading how to do everything.…

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Added by Travis McDougald on March 3, 2012 at 18:25 — No Comments

Tutorial- Jon Solmos: Creating an Ice Texture for Angmar Fortress-page2

The final steps will be more detail oriented. I added more snow/ice in any area where it would naturally accumulate such as cracks, crevices and over-hangs.  For this effect I created a custom

brush that looks like one highlighted below.

The specific settings for…

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Added by John Armstrong on March 3, 2012 at 11:00 — No Comments

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