BOOKS / GAMES / GADGETS

Mamoru Oshii: The Illusion of Peace – Patlabor 2

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Patlabor 2

While previous iterations of the Patlabor series had a heavy focus on political themes, the 1993 anime movie Patlabor 2 shifted its attention to both domestic and international issues faced by the Japanese government in the 20th century. Directed by the highly respected and influential anime filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, Patlabor 2 is praised for its intelligent storytelling, impressive animation, and thought-provoking themes. Oshii’s contributions to the anime industry, particularly in the mecha and cyberpunk genres, have earned him numerous awards and honors. His works have been exhibited at major film …

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The Best Fantasy- and Sci-Fi Book Series (IMHO)

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I’ve assembled a list of what I believe are the best fantasy / science fiction series so far. >Blimey! I know that I’m missing something important… The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss First Book in the Series: The Name of the Wind (2007) Description: With only two books published relatively recently (and a related novella), it could be argued that the unfinished Kingkiller trilogy doesn’t belong on this list. But only someone who hasn’t read these books would make that argument, as no other fantasy novels so easily shrug off …

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ForGG Has Announced His Mandatory Military Service

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Park “ForGG” Ji Soo has announced that he will carrying out his mandatory military service, during this time he won’t be streaming or attending to tournaments. It will start on May 3rd. Take care friend! I watched your stream for years, your fails and big moments. Played you once in ladder and failed horrible… We had a lot of fun with friends and enjoyed our time with u. Again, take care. We’ll await your come back after your military service. Come back to us – even without or with dead hands …

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Paladins Beta: Gotcha Face Bucked!

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If you know how to play Skye – she is OP – the same as Buck – depending on the team setup and team-play. Anyway. Buck faced. I has bucket! If you want to play the Paladins Beta send me a message or go on twitch.tv/d0nnyeuw right now ask for invitation and maybe follow him if you like – have fun. You should not listen to my complaints and read the first hands-on look by Tina Lauro Pollock. Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a great game for a beta – it’s …

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Overwatch: Blizzards Titan Edition of a Team-based multiplayer

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Today at BlizzCon 2014, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new franchise – it’s the first new franchise in 17 years, Hearthstone is a new game, not franchise – Overwatch. Blizzard is one of the video game studio best known for high-quality productions and games that you will enjoy even 10 years later. Not only for highly polished games also for astonishing cinematic trailers. They gifted us with games like Diablo, StarCraft and WarCraft, Hearthstone, today it’s the day not only for a brand new game but also for step forward, today …

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Lords of the Fallen – World Trailer

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The dark and mysterious world of Lords of the Fallen awaits you. Become Harkyn, a convicted outcast from society and now.. humanity’s best hope of defeating a demonic invasion. Introducing the game soundtrack by the award winning composer Knut Avenstroup Haugen http://knutavenstrouphaugen.com/ Release: October 28th in Americas, October 31st EMEA Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC

Rob Zombie’s French Revolution (Assassin’s Creed Unity)

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Rob Zombie. Assassin’s Creed. What the heck? Zombie’s French Revolution. I find this amazing. If you expect zombies in the video you are wrong, don’t let the name troll you. If you don’t know Rob Zombie click his name. Rob & The AS Unity Team created a short history lesson for us which you can explore further with the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity. The video is an incredibly gory comic with the title “Rob Zombie’s French Revolution”, wich actually makes you think of something entirely different. I did not expect …

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Dreamfall Chapters Reborn Trailer

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Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic, story-driven adventure game set in parallel worlds of science and magic — the new chapter in the critically acclaimed The Longest Journey saga. Book One: Reborn is coming out this autumn, and here is the brand new trailer for the first of five thrilling episodes. The latest trailer for the first episode of Dreamfall Chapters, the $1.5 million Kickstarter-funded sequel to the 2006 adventure game Dreamfall, shows off its three parallel worlds and the characters that thread throughout the story. Dreamfall Chapters is developed on …

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Ken Levine announced sudden shutdown of Irrational Games

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:O IDKAMWTS! A Message From Ken Levine When Jon Chey, Rob Fermier and I founded Irrational Games seventeen years ago, our mission was to make visually unique worlds and populate them with singular characters. We built Rapture and Columbia, the Von Braun and The Rickenbacker, the Freedom Fortress and some of the nastiest basements a SWAT team ever set foot into.  We created Booker and Elizabeth, the Big Daddy and the Little Sister, MidWives and ManBot. In that time, Irrational has grown larger and more successful than we could have …

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Skywind – Official Development Video #1

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To anyone seeing this video, the best way to help this project and make our hard work pay off is to SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE to these videos to spread the word. We need volunteers of all sorts, and there are simple tasks that anyone can help with, so please check out the website and see how you can support us at Morroroblivion. The more help we get, the faster the final release will come.

The Design of Everyday Things & Link Summary #04

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Just finished reading “The Design of Everyday Things” again – this book will get you to think about your everyday interfaces and the things in your environment – elevators, machines, doors, gadgets, locks, software interfaces, etc. A classic book which offers endless amount of amusement if you’re thinking twice about things you will find in there. Adopt the principles and apply them equally well to API structuring, game design, software UI and usability of things who are used everyday. Get the book here and apply it in your production process …

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Borderlands 2 – sFX 1.4 + XNFX

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Recently I played lots of Borderland 2 in my spare time. Here are a few screenshots with and without SweetFX-1.4+XNFX. Anyway, next week new old “retro bloggin”! And NO! I won’t open the comment section again, never ever! Currently I’m working on an combination of Sweet FX 1.4 with my XNFX shaders. There is a lot to do. For example: SMAA and FXAA are not working correctly. Also I have a few problems with the correct values in the configuration file… anyway – next week “RETRO BLOGGIN”! 😛 Or call …

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Intaracting with the gaming community

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The greatest threat to the video game industry may be some of its most impassioned fans. Increasingly, game developers are finding themselves under attack by some of the very people they devote their lives to entertaining. And this growing form of gamer-on-game-developer cyber harassment is starting to take its toll. …not much time. Here you go… read the full article on polygon!