“Optimism need not suffer – only naïveté”
The news today is that Pandemic Studios is being forced to close up shop, with its founders, Josh Resnick, Andrew Goldman and Greg Borrud already let go some days before. This comes mere days after 40% of Mythic staff gets cut1.
With shaking hands, I bust …
Earlier, I commented to Nabeel how I thought the earlier Red Dead Redemption debut trailer made the accompanying batch of screenshots redundant. I take that back.
With all this engine talk up in the air recently, Richard and I thought to sample Unigine’s demo benchmarks. You might already know Unigine from its association with Afterfall, the on-again off-again post-apocalyptic RPG – most other titles using the platform were admittedly unfamiliar to us.
In any case, while waltzing through their newest DirectX 11 …
M: I was resting a bit, mmh I don’t get much sleep at night….
You interrupted one of my nightmares
T: Sleep depravation [sic]
You should go see a doctor!
M: I know
In other non-news, we’ve just introduced our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/slowdownvg – we’re not at all certain as to what we’ll be publishing over there, but this …
Halloween has become the de facto standard release date for the zombie mod, and this year turned out to be no different! Four months ago, we briefly discussed how the one-man UT2K4 total conversion, Out of Hell, had been slowly inching its way closer and closer to release for the past seven years. You can …