Eleven Minutes of Final Fantasy Type-0

quare 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.  this is DirectX 11 tech, it seems more than likely it’s coming to future PC games – so let’s take a look at the thing below. The idea is it’s that much closer to photo-realism, at least in terms of environments – while I’d rather spend my games in a crazy, impossible, fantastical environment than a faithfully-recreated multistorey carpark, there’s no denying that this tech looks mighty impressive.

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. I wouldn’t grumble about playing a Deus Ex game that looked like that. But is it really possible? I’m not a believer until I’ve seen it running on a real, contemporay PC in real time.

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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Next Unreal Engine In 2014 And Supports 20 Cores

The next version of Unreal Engine won’t be out before 2014 but it will be worth the wait, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney claimed.

“I spend about 60 percent of my time every day doing research work that's aimed at our next generation engine and the next generation of consoles,” he said.

“This is technology that won't see the light of day until probably around 2014, but focusing on that horizon enables me to do some really cool things that just aren't practical today, but soon will be.”

Sweeney then explained his belief that the biggest challenge and opportunity facing graphics engines in the near future is dealing with multiple CPUs.

“Once you have 20 cores, you can't easily say this one is going to be for animation and this one is going to be for details on the face of the character, because all these parameters change dynamically as different things come on screen and load as you shift from scene to scene,” he explained.

“The big challenge will be redesigning our engine and our workload so that we scale more of these different computer tasks between CPU cores seamlessly in real-time and dynamically so that you're always getting the maximum computing power out with the engine, regardless of what sort of work you're doing.”

Aliens : Colonial Marines Gameplay Demo Walkthrough

 "Somebody wake up Hicks."

Aliens: Colonial Marines will feature a story driven single-player mode and an all-new four player co-op mode allowing players to share the chilling experience with three friends. In co-op mode, each player will assume the persona of a Colonial Marine and have a distinct role to play in the completion of every mission. Additionally, more multiplayer modes will be revealed later in the year that will complete the Aliens video game experience.

LA Noire PC release date

Rockstar has just announced the LA Noire PC release date as November 8, 2011.

Labelled 'The Complete Edition', the PC version of LA Noire will receive a multi-use code to access all downloadable add-ons and cases. This includes all previously released DLC from the console versions, including the Nicholson Electroplating Arson case, Reefer Madness Vice case, The Consul's Car Traffic case, The Naked City Vice case and A Slip of the Tongue Traffic case.

It's priced at £39.99 and the recommended PC set-up is below:

• Operating System: Windows 7 / Windows Vista Service Pack 1 / Windows XP Service Pack 3 / OnLive for PC or Mac;
  
• Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.2GHz to Quad Core 3.2GHz / AMD Dual Core 2.4Ghz to Quad Core 3.2Ghz;
  
• RAM: 2GB to 8GB;
  
• Hard drive space: 16GB;
  
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB / Radeon HD 3000 512MB to Radeon HD 6850 1024MB;
  
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9 Compatible;
  
• DVD Drive.

More BF3 than you can shake a stick at

Hours to drool over, Enjoy.

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Battlefield 3 - All Classes All Guns Gameplay


Battlefield 3 Tournament Match A


Battlefield 3 Tournament Match B


BF3 Beta Full Extended Gameplay

Metro Rush Full Game



Right, That's all folks. i'll do a review once i get my mits on it.

How To: Install Windows From a USB Drive

Yes i know about the Tool From Microsoft but for some reason it goes a tad nuts sometimes and cant see the drive you'd like to use.

I just used this method and installed Windows 7. The main advantage is that by using a USB drive you will be able to install Windows7/Vista in just 15 minutes. You can also use this if you dont have a DVD  drive.

Needless to say that your motherboard should support USB Booting to make use of the bootable USB drive.

Requirements:

*USB Hard drive/Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB)

*Windows 7,8 or Vista installation files.(XP may work but i haven't tested it yet)

1. Plug-in your drive and move all the contents to a safe location on your system.

2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the following methods to open the Command Prompt window with admin rights.

*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.

Or

*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories,  right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt:

First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.

Next type LIST DISK and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1). In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1.

4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is “Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it.

You need to type and execute these one by one:

SELECT DISK 1

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

(Format may take awhile)

ASSIGN

EXIT

Don’t close the command prompt window yet, we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

5. Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive.

In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is “H” (open my computer to check).

6. Now in the Command Prompt window,  Type :

D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

7.To update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code Type: 

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

Where “H” is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the above message.

8. Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.

9. All done, Your drive is ready to boot and install Windows 7/Vista. Only thing you need to change is the boot priority in the BIOS to USB from the HDD or CD ROM drive.

Note: If you are not able to boot after following this guide means you haven’t set the BIOS priority to USB. If you got any problems in following this guide feel free to ask questions by leaving a comment.

Battlefield 3 new pics plus xbox jets and Campaign Footage

To be honest it looks quite good on the 360, not a patch on the pc version... but, yeah

Battlefield 3 trailer shows Operation Guillotine

oh yes