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Digital Foundry | The Anti-Aliasing Effect
How developers are battling the jaggies.
One of the most important elements in overall image consistency within console games has to the implementation of anti-aliasing - the process of smoothing edges and mitigating or eliminating the dreaded "jaggies". Both PS3 and Xbox 360 have AA technologies built into their respective GPUs, but as the console generation progresses it's becoming clear that for many games there are simply not enough system resources available to anti-alias images using traditional techniques. Developers are beginning to look beyond the hardware solutions and come up with their own methods. Some work well, some look awful, but it's all evidence of game-makers looking to eke out as much performance as they can from the current fixed architectures.
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Feature | Making it Special
Life is only going to get harder for companies who don't specialise.
Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.
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Phoenix Wright heads WiiWare update
Plus: Electroplankton! Sudoku! That's it.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney heads today's WiiWare update, and brings Capcom's brilliant DS court-room adventure onto Wii for the first time.
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Glockumentary.
IO Interactive has spent the last year or so thinking about what's real. That doesn't mean the developer's selling its car, renting out the flat and heading to Goa with an acoustic guitar, some awesome liquorice sticks and a dreadlocked chick named Mary-Beth it met on the Circle Line, however. Rather it means that the designers of Kane & Lynch have been studying the kind of things people associate with reality - prodding through the internet in search of whatever it is that has the power to jar and shock by virtue of its authenticity. They want something that will make you drop your ice lolly and think, "Ooh, that's a bit raw for a videogame". Sorry, Mary-Beth.
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Feature | Coming Attractions: Action-Adventure & Platformers
Where the action is.
It's the last day of our 2010 preview, covering two genres that could easily have been one, or three, or more. All of gaming is here in one form or another, but for more specific thrills you should check out our four previous instalments: Shooters & Racing, Fighting, Puzzle & Arcade, MMOs & RPGs, and Strategy, Simulation & Sports.
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Activision confirms new DJ Hero game
Begins campaign for "undiscovered" talent.
Activision's confirmed "a future instalment" in the DJ Hero series, but stopped short of adding a number two to the name.
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Feature | Coming Attractions: Strategy, Simulation & Sports
S Club party.
So far in our 2010 preview we've covered shooters and racing games, dabbled in the instant thrills of fighting, puzzle and arcade games and settled in for the long haul in what looks like a big year for MMOs and RPGs. In tomorrow's final instalment, we'll look at one genre to rule them all and another that's making a healthy comeback. Today, however, it's all about tactics and accuracy (and sibilant alliteration) as we explore strategy, simulation and sports games.
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Review | Napoleon: Total War
Creative reassembly.
Empire: Total War was sloppy. Can we reach a consensus here? Even anyone who loved it - and for all its flaws we loved it enough to give it 9/10 - would admit its bugs were "a shame", the combat pathfinding "temperamental", the AI "distracted", the tutorials "lightweight" and its manual "environmentally considerate". It wasn't quite all style and no substance, but perhaps all style and a gelatinous, gloopy substance that you have to cut out if it gets in your hair.
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DICE explains BFBC2 server policy
Claims renting doesn't result in profits.
DICE has told Eurogamer there is "no profit" made from forcing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 players to rent dedicated servers instead of building their own.
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Wii and DS thrash competition in US
Nintendo's pair sold 7m in December.
Nintendo's Wii and DS have broken single-month US sales records for their performance throughout December.
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Batman: AA to get GOTY treatment
But what will the new edition include?
A Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum is on the way.
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SEGA's All-Star Racing in February
Tails, you lose.
Sonic & SEGA's All-Star Racing will be released for DS, PC, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 on 26th February.
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Fewer rules, more logic.
Nintendo's announced plans to release DS nonogram puzzler Picross 3D on 5th March in Europe.
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SEGA dates Napoleon: Total War
Bon appetite for destruction.
SEGA has revealed a 26th February release date for Napoleon: Total War and Napoleon: Total War - Imperial Edition.
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Army of Two 2! Serious Sam HD! Vancouver.
Thanks to the infinite variety of videogames, no two weeks are ever the same. Take this week and last week, for example. Fresh from running, jumping, exploring and hacking things up in both Bayonetta and Darksiders, this week we emerge into the worlds of Army of Two: The 40th Day and Serious Sam HD on Xbox Live Arcade.
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WGA announces game writing nominees
Assassin's! Uncharted! Wolverine! etc.
The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 2009 Videogame Writing awards.
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EA is doing it all wrong, says former exec
Lasky reckons Dante's won't save 'em.
Former Electronic Arts exec Mitch Lasky has taken a pop at his old employers, claiming they've got it all wrong when it comes to, well, everything.
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US games market down 8 per cent in 09
Sales of everything but handhelds fell.
Graphmongers the NPD Group have announced the US games market was down 8 per cent last year.
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Modern Warfare 2 tops US chart for 2009
But New Super Mario Bros. won December.
Data trackers NPD have announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360 was the best-selling game in the US last year.
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Ubisoft: BG&E2 is still in development
No word on when it's out yet though.
The absence of Beyond Good & Evil 2 from any of Ubisoft's financial chatter raised questions - but fear not, the sequel is still in development.
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Dark Void was delayed to avoid ODST
Plus: PC demo now available.
Capcom has said it chose to delay Dark Void from September until January because it didn't want to run into Halo 3: ODST at retail.
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Lasky: EA is in the wrong business
Former EA man slags off management.
Former Electronic Arts exec Mitch Lasky has said that the Madden publisher has the wrong business targets, team and cost structure, and its digital and distribution business is the only successful division in the company, our sister site GamesIndustry.biz reports.
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No ETA on Return to Ostagar launch
Troublesome title update gone from Live.
BioWare has said it is uncertain when troubled Dragon Age DLC Return to Ostagar will be released on any format following yesterday's second snafu.
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Yamauchi: GT5 not using all PS3's power
And Polyphony boss dreads release.
Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has declared that Gran Turismo 5 doesn't use all of the PlayStation 3's power.
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Ubisoft sorting Live by the Creed prizes
To be sent out within next week.
Ubisoft's told Eurogamer that prizes for the Assassin's Creed II Live by the Creed promotion will be sent out "within the next week".
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Sony refreshes the PlayStation Store
The London Pub refreshes Home.
UNO's on the PlayStation Store this week for £6.29/€7.99. It's a card game for you and your friends. There's not much else to say, apart from that Ellie praised the game on Xbox Live Arcade.
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Fils-Aime: Wii not going anywhere soon
Has a "very long life in front of it".
Reggie Fils-Aime has reassured/upset Nintendo fans by promising them that the Wii will be around for years to come.
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Levine talks scrapped Irrational game
The zombie shooter that never made it.
Irrational Games has recalled how in 2005 the developer was pitching zombies and not Big Daddies to publishers.
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Splinter Cell delayed for "polish"
But for how long Ubisoft can't say.
Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that Splinter Cell: Conviction was delayed to add "a bit more polish", and not because Q1 2010 is unconventionally bursting with big-name releases.
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3D Dot Game Heroes dated for Europe
PS3 exclusive coming in May.
SouthPeak's bringing PS3 exclusive 3D Dot Game Heroes to Europe in May.
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