aspro said:

Story above: Pachter says Black Ops won't sell as much as MW2.

If Activision markets it the way they did MW2 I don't see why it wouldn't.  Most of the people who bought MW2 won't know about the trevails at Activision and will just want more COD.

Again, all depends on the marketing -- they spent a shitload last time.

Yup. Didn't WaW outsell MW1, despite MW1 being the favorite of teh hardcorez (vocal forum dwellers)?

Dvader said:

No one here to say hi, damn you all. Well then I shall go back to my luxurious vacation.

Damnit, I missed you.

edgecrusher said:

Asian dude doing Super Mario theme on TWO guitars at the same time. Fucking awesome!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpD0btOZx8&feature=related

You sure that's not a dudette?

ASK, I've replayed PW 1-3 and midway through my second run on 4 now. I will always go back to them as its like reading a book or watching a cartoon. As time dulls the memory, you still get moments where you have to figure out what to do.

Agnates said:

gamingeek said:

F****** penises. Both CVG and Eurogamer have posted "new" Goldeneye pics and video, which are actually OLD.

Thanks for nuthin'

Ungh, shitty watermarks, but I can't find them anywhere else...

Thankyou.

Why do you hate watermarks so much though?

Updates done.

This is a good read:

Kinect in depth - latency, power, detail and more

Digital Foundry

So if many of Kinect's limitations are software in nature and can be engineered, or "evolved" around, what of the hardware itself? Perhaps the biggest surprise - and disappointment - in viewing the final Kinect spec up against the PrimeSense reference camera is that the resolution of the all-important depth map has been reduced to just 25 per cent of its original size: 320x240 up against 640x480.

This makes the idea of tracking fingers, or any kind of fine detail, in a reliable fashion a complete non-starter, and so what you might call "higher level" interactions with games are going to be challenging to implement: there won't be any virtual keyboards to type on, for example: the precision simply isn't there. This leads on to another very simple question: if seated gameplay is implemented, just how are we expected to interact with the game if you can't use your fingers? Waving your arms about just won't cut it in many cases in terms of a full-fledged control system.

Bearing in mind the high hopes that Kinect would pave the way to the mythical Minority Report-style interface, it's ironic that the low-res depth map also seems to have led to one of the most immediately frustrating aspects of the Kinect experience: menu navigation and button selection is far less intuitive than hoped, and significantly slower than using a pad. A glowing orb or other pointer is moved about with your arm and you need to hold steady on your selection for a couple of seconds in order to activate it. Sony's Doctor Richard Marks - the architect of PlayStation Move - researched 3D cameras extensively before settling on the glowing wand design. We asked him what Kinect can do that the heavily hand- and finger-orientated Move cannot.

Digital Foundry:

One of the key technical architects from Microsoft, Alex Kipman, telling New Scientist magazine that Kinect uses 10-15 per cent of the system's power.

The truth is that for most Kinect titles, Kipman's figures are closer to the money. Two threads of a single Xbox 360 core are used, but only a relatively small percentage of that processor's available CPU time is consumed, and the actual amount of system resources both in terms of processor cycles and RAM used depends entirely on the type of game being made and the capabilities of Kinect the developer is using (in point of fact, a small percentage of GPU resources are also being used).

Using the Avatar skeletal tracking system incurs load and the chances are that tracking two players increases processor usage still further. Similarly, if the developer uses the RGB camera feed in alignment with the depth map (a process called "registration") this too adds to the burden.

Sony's Doctor Richard Marks - the architect of PlayStation Move - researched 3D cameras extensively before settling on the glowing wand design. We asked him what Kinect can do that the heavily hand- and finger-orientated Move cannot.

"Kinect has different data than we have. I'm really familiar with the data so I know exactly what it could do and yeah, sure it can do some things. It's really good for a certain slice of experiences like dancing or exercise, but it's hard to get out of a niche of experiences with it," Marks says.

Firstly, will Kinect be used to supplement input from the joypad in future core games? You would think that it would be a no-brainer, but thus far we have not seen a single title integrate the two control systems into one game.

Just like the pad/Kinect hybrid, there is absolutely no reason why it couldn't be done from a technical standpoint, but you simply get the idea that Microsoft doesn't want it to happen in the here and now. Perhaps it would be somewhat at odds with the "you are the controller" marketing spin. 

What it boils down to is a choice. In our view, PlayStation Move is the most flexible, versatile motion controller for either HD console. It's patently superior to Wii and indeed the MotionPlus upgrade. But as we've seen from the launch titles, the utilisation of the wand thus far falls way short of the superb concepts Sony is dreaming up in its R&D labs.

Kinect is something different and wholly removed from Move and the Wiimote. The fact that it's ideally suited to fitness and dance titles in a way that neither of the competing systems can match may well be enough on its own to guarantee success. However, in the longer term, it's the system's basic demand for innovation from developers that may well be the making of it.

Archangel3371 said:

I just tried Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and I must say that it's pretty damn cool. I love the graphics they went for in the game, it looks very much like something Capcom would have done in the 16/32 bit era but with more animation, special effects, etc. Very cool. Definite purchase for me.

I thought it was an 8 bit game?

Archangel3371 said:

gamingeek said:

Archangel3371 said:

I just tried Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and I must say that it's pretty damn cool. I love the graphics they went for in the game, it looks very much like something Capcom would have done in the 16/32 bit era but with more animation, special effects, etc. Very cool. Definite purchase for me.

I thought it was an 8 bit game?

Oh no, way more colours and effects going on to reference it as an 8 bit 'throwback' kind of game.

Is it a psn exclusive?

gamingeek said:

Is it a psn exclusive?

 Briefly. Once MS are done with their Summer/Winter/whocares of Arcade, it should be up.

gamingeek said:

More Kinect stuff from that detailed article.

Digital Foundry:

Sony's Doctor Richard Marks - the architect of PlayStation Move - researched 3D cameras extensively before settling on the glowing wand design. We asked him what Kinect can do that the heavily hand- and finger-orientated Move cannot.

"Kinect has different data than we have. I'm really familiar with the data so I know exactly what it could do and yeah, sure it can do some things. It's really good for a certain slice of experiences like dancing or exercise, but it's hard to get out of a niche of experiences with it," Marks says.

The hilarious thing is, I don't need Sony's fucking Doctor Dick to tell me that Kinect is only good for shit like dancing and exercise; ITS A FUCKING C.A.M.E.R.A!!! You stand in front of it & do retarded shit with your arms to get it to work! Common sense told me from day 1 that this thing couldn't be used to play REAL games by itself, the way a real CONTROLLER, like Wii or Move, could.

gamingeek said:

Digital Foundry:

Firstly, will Kinect be used to supplement input from the joypad in future core games? You would think that it would be a no-brainer, but thus far we have not seen a single title integrate the two control systems into one game.

That's the only way this thing will be useful....by using it ALONGSIDE an actual real controller. Then I could see it being cool, but for THAT price?! Not worth it.

gamingeek said:

Digital Foundry:

What it boils down to is a choice. In our view, PlayStation Move is the most flexible, versatile motion controller for either HD console.

Duh......maybe because its the only one that's actually a CONTROLLER???? Maybe that's why?