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I don't understand why we're even comparing the E3 2005 trailer to the 2007 trailer - all that matters is whether people will buy it when they see it in the store, and if it will make them buy a PS3. Are the explosions as good as the 2005 CGI trailer - no, obviously not. Some of the lighting is...

One, I wouldn't worry too much about Kotaku. The man is clearly just pissed off that as a gaikokujin, he's being discriminated against. Never mind the fact that he can leave whenever he wants, and the fact that he doesn't means he loves Japan more than he hates it. Which I assume is true for...

I'm with aldo. Seriously, what is rumble used for? "Immersion"? Ohhh...the controller is SHAKING IN MY HANDS....it's like I'm IN THE GAME!!!

The Chinese, Taiwanese, South Korean, HK, Malaysian, Thai, Singaporian, Indonesian market is simply an extension of the Japanese market. As goes Japan, goes all of Asia. The PC game world is a little different, with native MMORPGs from Japan, SK, Taiwan, China, but as far as consoles are...

XP vs. 98: The first thing I do after re-installing XP is to change the look to Windows Classic, so the start menu doesn't take up half the damned screen. The second thing I do is go to Windows Explorer, and make all system files visible. About Vista, I'm not going to buy it at least for a...

BTW, has anyone (one?) translated the article? ( Don't want to scan the whole thread...) If not, I can work one up - just don't want to be redundant.

Very nice demo. The chromatic aberration is a little exaggerated, I don't think there's any material with a index of refraction that is that non-linear. But I guess they did that to show off that yes, it is ray-traced.

Hannibal is generally knows what he's talking about if you ask me. I've been reading his whitepapers for years, since I was an undergrad. While he's often not the first to spot trends, he has a clear view of microprocessor design over the last decade, and he's good at connecting the dots. Once...

Very good posts, thanks for linking them. I believe the key difference is that Xbox360 developers are predominantly PC developers, so Microsoft chose a hardware architecture that would be easily accessible to them. By contrast, the asymmetrical nature of the the PS3, and the large data...

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2005/1216/ubiq137.htm XBox 360 Running Dashboard: 135W Running Media Center Extender (MCX): 134W MCX Television: 134W Running Ridge Racer 6 startup video: 152W Playing Ridge Racer 6: 164W For Comparison Pentium D 820 + Radeon X700 (Idle): 125W...

For what it's worth: http://news.google.com.hk/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=xbox+suit&btnG=Search+News At the very least, this idiot has managed to get on USA Today, and Cnet News. And Reuters is one of the two largest newswire organizations in the world, the other being the Associated Press...

It has been Sony's strategy for several years now to have a heavily vertically integrated business model for consumer electronics. This puts them in a unique position to push out new technologies, because they control the whole stack, from fabrication technologies to finished product, with...

Not that it really matters now...but basically, the article: - Draws a labored parallel between TGS 2005 and Koizumi recent electoral victory. - Calls Kutaragi the "Oda Nobunaga of the industry". - Says both Kutaragi and Koizumi have charismatic styles of leadership. - Has quotes from one...

No, not true...I've personally made FPGA-based logic clocked at over 100MHz, and the new generations can go much higher. It really depends on how you design it. FPGAs are used everywhere, which is why they exist. Not cost-competitive with ASICs for mass-production applications, but for...

To Panajev: Just read your first post on this thread, great read. But it got me thinking - by vectorizing, you might lose some of the data locality inherent in the game scene. To take Nao's example: // Nao's vectorized code///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////...