With this one there’s a lot of techno babbel about how it will improve our lives by giving us X amount of this and Y amount of that. The long and short of it is DirectX 11 has been officially announced by Microsoft including all it’s detailed specs.
The key bits of information that can be understood by everyone is that yes it will be backwards compatible with DX 10/10.1 hardware and in addition to various graphical tweaks you would expect will be Vista only. Bad news for those of you still using XP and DirectX 9. In theory, still it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference in visual comparisons between DX9 and DX10 at the moment bar the slower framerate that comes from DX10. The interesting bit of info is that DX11 will allow for “use of the GPU as a parallel processor” which could make things interesting in the future.
No release date as yet, but we can expect it within the next 18 months or so to be in public beta if prior versions are anything to go by. If you want confirmation see the Shacknews article.
With the events of San Diego Comic-Con fully upon us a few assets from upcoming movies and series premieres have started to appear online. For those of use who didn”t get to go to Comic-Con we can start appreciating all the highlights of the show bar the presentations. First to come to our attention is the poster above for Terminator Salvation (4).
It’s nice to see they are keeping to the old school way of making the terminator itself the prime focus of attention it would be nice to see a bit more about the film itself. The recently released teaser trailer was extremely light on useful footage, so it’s hard to make a judgement on the movie at this point. Unless there is more revealed with nighttime action sequences, as the future was shown in the first two movies then we might be stuck with Resident Evil 3 - The Terminator version. Nothing but sand and dust with occasional CGI action sequences.
Still, right now we have hope, and isn’t hope the whole point this early in the production process. We wish those working on the production the best of luck and hope McG provides a worthy addition to the franchise and a good film able to stand on it’s own.
Image sources: Edward Douglas c/o Comingsoon.net
Vin Diesel was at the turn of the century one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. After a few not so great movies and a run doing the kid movie bit things have gotten worse for the actor who was supposed to be Hitman’s agent 47 in the movie version. Now we have had the news through that his new vehicle (no pun intended) Wheelman: The Game will be delayed until next year.
The game version of his new movie is from Midway and is an open-world driving/action title that is due to be released on the PC, PS3 and 360 now early next year. This is not the first time the game has been delayed as it was originally supposed to be out back in 2007. The reason announced for the delay is to allow for more development time. After finding various reaction comments about how the title ran at E3 it does sound like the time is needed with framerate issues and frequent crashes on the current code.
This is only a friendly reminder that Stuffwelike let’s you know the news you need to know first. In relation to The Dark Knight movie we covered a story way back at the beginning of the year about how IMDB let the ending of The Dark Knight leak in a news story. Even though no other news website mentioned it, we did and if you look at it after watching the movie you will see how we were right on the button about SPOILER how the joker wouldn’t get killed off. For those of us who covered the story knowing a part of the ending was a real pain when watching the movie.
We can even guess how he would have been reintroduced during the next movie in the series as it would make sense taking prior Batman incarnations into account. After the end of Dark Knight he would have been taken into Arkham nuthouse where all Batman’s enemies are kept and then at the beginning of the next movie he would break out with the assistance of the new villain. Having the joker work as his sidekick, in a way.
Cliffy B made some comments at the Gears of War movie panel at Comic-Con that might interest you. The man has put it in no uncertain terms that “I know people have ideas where they want to see some wrestler, some huge buff guy” we agree. But he added also instead of a wrestler “The thing we care most about is charisma, someone you’d want to watch for two hours.”
From our side we would love to see The Rock in the Gears movie. He could make anything work and thinking wrestlers don’t have charisma is a deadly idea, after all they all have work persona’s to work with and The Rock is a genuine action hero. As a fan of the Doom movie (yes, it’s true) I thought The Rock was the best thing in it and im a fan of almost all his movies. Steve Austin though I don’t think would fit.
If Cliffy is looking for plain actors to play the heroes in Gears who would you want? If it has to be a non-wrestler why not Thomas Jane or John Travolta?
First a confession, the writer of this piece does happen to be a currently working film critic so there is a little bias on my part. On IMDB there is a story about how newspaper critics that didn’t come out with The Dark Knight is the best movie ever made have been receiving hate mail in massive quantities. Not just small time reviewers but even those such as the critics for the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times.
One of the reviewers has even commented that “I’ve gotten 250 or 300 e-mails, almost all with the vilest, most abusive language you could possibly imagine. I was stunned. These people aren’t just discourteous. They’re insane.” The comments continued with “I write for an educated readership and usually the responses to my reviews are courteous and collegial,” he remarked. “But this was really ugly. It did feel like a mob.”
My two cents on this is by default for print published reviewers there are two default settings for comments. The first is that a no feedback policy is enabled between the editor and reviewer so they receive no feedback from the readership and thus feel no pressure beyond providing an honest opinion. The other option is to publish the reviewers email address and allow them to feel the full force of the readership. This is a negative in my opinion as comments made do leave a lasting impression and everything under the sun would receive a generic 3/5 as to not upset anyone one way or the other.
We have had a huge response to our old is GTA the end of PC gaming article and new things have come up. In the newest event the ESRB listed on their ratings website that Grand Theft Auto IV would be receiving an M for Mature rating on the Windows PC in addition to the 360 and PS3 versions already in existence. Having the ESRB leak that a game is to come out on PC is not a surprise at all with several titles over the years all being leaked/announced via ESRB.
Rockstar haven’t issued a denial at time of press although normally they share the same default setting in terms of statements as Microsoft with a “no comment” being the standard even if the rumours are true. If GTA4 does come out on the PC it won’t be unexpected but it would be welcome just as long as a supercomputer is not required to run it at a good enough graphical setting to make things interesting.
Screenshot source: Game-on-Game
