Novosti iz sveta video-igara

[Meho Krljic]

Nova igra u Alien (a ne Aliens) franšizi je u najavi:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/21/is-alien-isolation-creative-assemblys-console-game

[Father Jape]

Ovaj članak je učinio da potrošim gotovo celu rolu toalet papira. Ako znate na šta mislim.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/10/23/enemy-within-preview/

[Meho Krljic]

I ja se grdno oštrim.
Edit: Koliko je kul što su umesto nove kampanje u Firaxisu igru proširili novim mehanikama u istoj kampanji!!!!!!! Mnogo kul. Predviđam dugu i vrelu zimu ispred monitora.

[Meho Krljic]

Den Steplton na IGN-u nije baš raspamećen Batman Arkham Originsom. Videćemo. Igra se daunlouduje kod kuće as I type, ali ipak je danas prvo na redu veterinar pa Li Kunic na džez festivalu... ne znam kad ću zaigrati.

[Meho Krljic]

Den Steplton na IGN-u nije baš raspamećen Batman Arkham Originsom. Videćemo. Igra se daunlouduje kod kuće as I type, ali ipak je danas prvo na redu veterinar pa Li Kunic na džez festivalu... ne znam kad ću zaigrati.

A Tom Bramvel na Jurogejmeru piše slično, doduše u pozitivnom tonu ali podvlači da je igra relativno konzervativan prolazak kroz već poznate ideje i mehaniku.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-10-25-batman-arkham-origins-review

[Father Jape]

Mehova lična boginja, Keza Makdonald, piše o The Stanley Parable:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/18/the-stanley-parable-review

(bez spojlera)

[Meho Krljic]

Jasno je da si ti do ovog linka došao čitajući Sunday Papers na RPS-u. Pravi muževi su njen prikaz TSP pročitali još prošle nedelje kad je objavljen na IGN-u. 

[Father Jape]

 

[Father Jape]

A jesi li video ovaj tekst:

http://hitboxteam.com/designing-game-narrative

[Meho Krljic]

Video, čitam ja uvek Sunday papers.

[milan]

Zna li se kad kod nas stizu Soni 4 i XBox One i kolike ce im cene biti?

[Meho Krljic]

Ja se nisam raspitivao jer nisam solventan  Ali kapiram da ako okreneš GameS telefonom možeš da dobiješ nekakvu informaciju.

[Meho Krljic]

Obimna priča o nastanku i filozofiji Valveovog kontrolera:

How Valve Engineered the Perfect Controller

[Meho Krljic]

Igračka industrija nastavlja da masturbira na cloud computing. U novoj priči, Ubisoft  Square-Enix govore o projektu FLARE koji će, vele, pomoći da se kompleksne grafičke i AI kalkulacije prebace na server, pa ćemo igrati igre sa stotinama nezavisnih likova i predmeta rendanih u 4K rezolucijama, kako se ponašaju na mnogo složenije načine nego danas, a da naše klijent mašine neće morati da budu superkompjuteri. Hmda. Jednom će internet kvalitet biti dovoljan za ovako nešto...

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/05/project-flare-square-enixs-cloud-gaming-service-revealed

[Meho Krljic]

Playstation 4 u Ameriki izlazi tek u Petak ali su neki rani primerci već isporučeni (medijima, pobednicima na raznim igrama na sreću itd.) i, avaj, ima izveštaja o tome da hardver crkava uznemirujućim tempom:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/14/broken-playstation-4-systems

[Meho Krljic]

Obiman test Playstation 4 od strane Jurogejmerovog Ričarda Ledbetera:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hardware-test-playstation-4

[milan]

Za sada je vecina ovih Sonijevih igara dobro prosla, osim Knacka, koji mahom dobija lose kritike. Najbolje su ocenjeni Resogun i Contrast, kao i Flower.

[milan]

Jedino vidim da Computerland najavljuje Soni 4 kod nas, i to tek od 11. januara sa cenom od 57000 dindzi... E jebiga... Za ovo se isplati otici do Segedina.

[Meho Krljic]

Vala baš... Zvaću ja Virtual Shop pa da vidim šta Neša kaže..

[Meho Krljic]

Posle dosta podeljenih reakcija na ribut Space Hulka gde su za volanom bili Danci iz studija Full Control, malko sam se zabrinuo šta će biti sa novim Jagged Alliance koji radi isti studio a za šta sam im dao pare na kikstarteru. Evo prvog developer diaryja za ovu igru. Ajde... uz Alahovu pomoć možda sve ispadne okej:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mePG-0-zVk0

[Meho Krljic]

Hmmm, Sony će tek videti kolike su razmere "Blue Light of Death" gliča koji čini da se tek otpakovana Playstation četvorka ne da koristiti jer iako ima struje, ne šalje ni video ni audio signal na izlaze. Sonyjevo uputstvo na zvaničnom forumu je dosta... nekorisno jer kaže da je problem možda u napajanju, možda u harddisku a možda i u nečem drugom. Ohrabrujuće. Doduše, već se krenulo sa zamenama a konzola je tek četiri dana na tržištu ali ako ovo bude iole blizu razmera koje je originalni Xbox 360 imao sa svojim Red Ring of Death gličom, Sony će da bez problema ode pola milijarde i kusur u minus... A dobro im je išlo u pripremi za lansiranje. Naravno, možda je ovo zaista minoran problem, tek par desetina ljudi se javilo Sonyjevom forumu od milion i kusur prodatih konzola, ali ipak... valja biti oprezan.

[Meho Krljic]

British Medical Journal je objavio opsežnu studiju o promenama ponašanja koje igre izazivaju kod dece i kratka presuda je da nisu štetne:

http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/21/archdischild-2011-301508.full.pdf+html

[Father Jape]

Sjajan tekst:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/22/re-that-heroes-of-the-storm-interview/

[Meho Krljic]

Imali su RPS i boljih na datu temu. Ali treb, naravno.

No, mene je više pogodila vest ispod nje. Džon Karmak, ipak, napušta id:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/22/seismic-john-carmack-officially-leaves-id-software/

Dakle, još jedan kraj još jedne epohe.

[Father Jape]

A pazi ovu razmenu na Tviteru sinoć:


John Carmack ‏@ID_AA_Carmack
I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

Markus Persson ‏@notch
@ID_AA_Carmack Exciting!

John Carmack ‏@ID_AA_Carmack
@notch You play a part in my recent history -- something you wrote helped reminded me of something I had been letting slip away. Thanks.

[Meho Krljic]

Kuku... Dakle Notch je kriv i za ovo? Nije ni čudo što ga stavljaju na liste najuticajnijih ljudi na svetu...

[milan]

Evo, i XBox One ima problema na startu - ne prepoznaje diskove i ispusta neki cudan zvuk iznutra. Videcemo koliko je ovo rasprostranjeno. Izgleda da je veci problem nego Sonijev sa HDMI kablom... Jedna od XBox konzola u IGN kancelarijama ima ovaj problem.
Meni je i dalje privlacniji Plejstejsn 4, zato sto vidim da je XBox zamisljen kao "entertainment center" u kuci, u koji vi prikljucite sve i preko kojeg pustate sve. Posto je pravi HD TV kod nas i dalje misaona imenica, a o Netflixu i slicnim stvarima da ne govorim, meni bi ova konzola ionako koristila samo za igranje igara. Tu je Soni u prednosti, 100 dolara je jeftiniji a pusta igre na 1080p.

[Meho Krljic]

Ma, biće i Xbox One igre u 1080p, dok malo programeri savladaju tajne hardvera, to je sigurno. Playstation 3 je bio nezamislivo komplikovan u prvih par godina postojanja konzole pa su multiplat igre sve redom bile tehnički lepše na Xbox 360, ali evo, sad je recimo GTA V thenički naprednija na Playstation 3.

Više me brine što obe firme imaju dokumentovane tehničke probleme sa launch konzolama, mada naravno, danas je mnogo više ljudi po tviterima itd. nego pre sedam godina pa možda samo deluje da su ti problemi rašireni a u stvari su na nivou statističke greške. Videćemo. Meni je svakako PS4 u planu.

[Meho Krljic]

Razumno obrazloženo:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/25/opinion-games-arent-film-colonisation-and-media-blindness

[Perin]

EA Canada Developing Open World, Next-Gen Star Wars Game:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/27/ea-canada-developing-open-world-next-gen-star-wars-game

Samo da nije pucačina - a verovatno jeste. Napraviće oni Betlfild u SW svetu, ja ti kažem. 

[Meho Krljic]

Ma, Betlfild u SW okruženju se već pravi u studiju DICE koji i inače pravi Battlefield igre, to će biti Battlefront 3. Ovo, ako je open world neće biti toliko slično Battlefieldu, koliko GTA 

[lilit]

jutros mi mili amazon poslao PS4.
još samo da nađem vremena i sky is the limit.

[Meho Krljic]

U Srbijicu, kako i Milan reče, tek stiže sredinom Januara, po cijeni ne zna se kojoj ali od 500 do 550 evrića...

[Meho Krljic]

Nadam se da Blade Runner čita ovaj topik jer će ga zanimati da vidi objašnjenje kako se može ubiti duh u Spelunkyju

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-29-incredible-spelunky-player-reveals-how-to-kill-the-ghost

Killing the Ghost in Spelunky!

[Meho Krljic]

How the PlayStation 4's 'Playroom' brought out the worst in gamers[/url]

Twitch bans streams of Sony's augmented reality game after sexual abuse and threats to children

The stars of Sony's The Playroom are meant to be its robots. Small, white, and cute, they jump and wiggle around at the feet of their owner. The Playroom — an alternate reality game that comes pre-loaded on PlayStation 4 — projects the miniature machines into players' living rooms. Using the PlayStation Camera, players can interact with them, kicking, flicking, and cradling them as they frolic and cower.

But on the world's biggest video-game streaming site, Twitch, the stars of The Playroom haven't been its robots — they've been its players. The PlayStation 4 can stream any of its games live. Streaming a video game is like having someone watch over your shoulder as you play: both streamer and viewer are absorbed by the same rendered, imagined, computerized world. But streaming The Playroom is showing the internet your real world. It's not an invented universe you're displaying in 720p for others to watch: that's your couch and coffee table, and those are your family members.


These stars have played with The Playroom's white robots, but they've also done stranger, darker things. They've put shoes on their head at the exhortation of others watching their broadcast live. They've had sex in front of their TV screen. They've stripped their wife naked as she lay seemingly unconscious on a couch[/url]. They've had to explain to a local police department that they didn't have a child locked up in their basement[/url] after viewers called to tip the cops off to the suspected crime.

They've been a young child standing silently in his house as an anonymous someone uses his TV to tell him he's "outside his window."[/url] The child's eyes grow wide and he turns around to check. He's still too short to see out of the window, so he stands on a chair and gingerly pulls a curtain aside to peek out, before nervously shaking his head.

Less than two weeks after the PlayStation 4's launch, Twitch banned streams of The Playroom. Two disturbing questions remain: how did the streams turn sour so quickly, and why didn't anybody see these problems coming?
       

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[size=1px !important]in[/size]Share   The stars of Sony's The Playroom are meant to be its robots. Small, white, and cute, they jump and wiggle around at the feet of their owner. The Playroom — an alternate reality game that comes pre-loaded on PlayStation 4 — projects the miniature machines into players' living rooms. Using the PlayStation Camera, players can interact with them, kicking, flicking, and cradling them as they frolic and cower.
But on the world's biggest video-game streaming site, Twitch, the stars of The Playroom haven't been its robots — they've been its players. The PlayStation 4 can stream any of its games live. Streaming a video game is like having someone watch over your shoulder as you play: both streamer and viewer are absorbed by the same rendered, imagined, computerized world. But streaming The Playroom is showing the internet your real world. It's not an invented universe you're displaying in 720p for others to watch: that's your couch and coffee table, and those are your family members.
Her husband stripped her clothes off as she lay on the couch, unconscious
These stars have played with The Playroom's white robots, but they've also done stranger, darker things. They've put shoes on their head at the exhortation of others watching their broadcast live. They've had sex in front of their TV screen. They've stripped their wife naked as she lay seemingly unconscious on a couch[/url]. They've had to explain to a local police department that they didn't have a child locked up in their basement[/url] after viewers called to tip the cops off to the suspected crime.


Someone tells the child he's "outside his window'
They've been a young child standing silently in his house as an anonymous someone uses his TV to tell him he's "outside his window."[/url] The child's eyes grow wide and he turns around to check. He's still too short to see out of the window, so he stands on a chair and gingerly pulls a curtain aside to peek out, before nervously shaking his head.
Less than two weeks after the PlayStation 4's launch, Twitch banned streams of The Playroom. Two disturbing questions remain: how did the streams turn sour so quickly, and why didn't anybody see these problems coming?

"The Spartan Show[/url]" was one of the first PS4 live streams to gain a notable following on Twitch. Around 5,000 people tuned in to see a phone-in show helmed by a husband and wife duo on the console's launch night. Among the first callers was Sony's own Adam Boyes.
   
Sony Computer Entertainment president Shuhei Yoshida tweeted his approval shortly afterwards, confirming he was watching the impromptu broadcast. The show's early calls were positive and cheerful, and riding a wave of post-launch adrenaline, the duo kept their show live through most of the PS4's first night.
They continued in the week that followed, hosting "The Spartan Show" through The Playroom. But the tone of the calls changed. Callers aiming to troll were surreptitiously hung up on as the show's hosts pretended their connection had dropped. Questions became needling and cruel. Several pages of a 100-page post on gaming super-forum NeoGAF[/url] were devoted to belittling the fact that the hosts of "The Spartan Show" misidentified cult action-RPG Dark Souls as a first-person shooter to one caller.


Sony first announced that its PlayStation 4 was capable of streaming live to Twitch at E3 2013. Microsoft had announced a deal with the site prior to the gaming trade show, whereas Sony had touted a partnership with the more generalist Ustream[/url]. Where Twitch focuses exclusively on video games and boasts the largest viewer number, Ustream forces game content to share space with computing tutorials and trade shows. In switching to the more specialized service, Sony was seen to be rushing to slam its ear to the ground, picking up current video-game trends without truly understanding them.

Twitch itself answers the question "who watches other people play video games" with staggering statistics. Twitch draws more than 35 million unique visitors per month[/url], up from 20 million last September, when it pulled in $15 million in investment capital[/url].

That growth has created a large but proudly insular community of users tech-savvy enough to watch and comment on PC games so deep they're played professionally. Twitch's top five most-viewed games have particularly high barriers to entry. Dota 2 and League of Legends demand their players learn the moves of more than 100 characters; World of Tanks necessitates knowledge of endless tank armor thicknesses and shell arcs. These are hardcore games, and the people who watch them are serious, passionate, and speak in arcane in-jokes.


For those who know their games and their audience, streaming can be a viable career path[/url] or a window to a fan base and new friends. For those unaccustomed to /b/ or /v/ invasions, for children left alone in front of the internet at large, or for unconscious people with unscrupulous partners, it can be a bear pit. Twitch's own community is also quick to turn on interlopers. In the wider narrative of a "console war" between Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, Twitch remains a bastion of a self-styled "master race"[/url] of PC gamers. The most dedicated of this community are snooty about console "toys" that only recently have been able to access their almost PC-exclusive segment of the internet. Kotaku highlights a Reddit post[/url] that points out neither Sony nor Twitch provide a guide to streaming, or a warning of the potential dangers of doing so to a largely unregulated audience.

Short on dedicated moderators to weed out the influx of negative comments from viewers and questionable content from streamers, Twitch simply removed The Playroom from its directory, making streaming the game impossible. In a statement, Twitch said "we removed Playroom content from the directory because a majority of it was non-gaming related. We will look into adding it back as PS4 owners become more familiar with the games-only focus of Twitch content." The company has pointed to its Terms of Service[/url] and reiterated its gaming focus several times in recent days, reminding users that streams need to be about games, not simply enabled through games.

Sony may not have foreseen the problems that would occur with The Playroom streams. Adam Boyes suggested as much when he called "The Spartan Show," saying Sony "always just thought people would do streams," but that it "never thought people would do them with PlayRoom." The logistics of the game, too, make it a special case. It demands the use of the pricy PlayStation camera that doesn't ship with the console, and unlike almost all other games, sets its action in your house. Although other streamers — such as StarCraft II superstar Day[/url] — show their homes and faces during streams, Sony's bundled game is the only one to focus exclusively on its owners' living rooms.

In a move that now appears sagely, competitor Microsoft withheld Twitch integration[/url] from its Xbox One launch package, planning to introduce the feature in early 2014. Sony's major rival had to respond to similar issues when it launched the Xbox Vision Camera in 2006. In a spot of impressive outside-the-box thinking, the device allowed Xbox 360 users to import their faces to games such as Rainbow Six: Vegas, but it gained most notoriety as a means of transmitting pornography while playing virtual Uno. Microsoft, like Sony and Twitch 7 years later, found no quick fix beyond booting perpetrators from its service as one parent found out when she questioned why her account was banned until the year 9999 from Xbox Live. Her son, reportedly, had been exposing his genitalia while playing card games[/url].

The rise, rapid descent, and subsequent banning of The Playroom on Twitch is a lesson for Sony. Racing to be part of the fastest-growing subsection of the largest entertainment medium in the world is more difficult when the people who inhabit that space already are entrenched, and have their own specific ways of doing things. As for the worrying content: it may just be human nature that given a camera and a means to communicate, we'll do so in a way that is by turns ingenious and disturbing.

[Meho Krljic]

Pošto smo na pragu nekakvog mjehura koji će se baviti igranjem u virtualnim realnostima uz korišćenje Okulus Rifta, Omni Tredmila i drugih sličnih pomagala, možda je pravi trenutak da se setimo nekih slavnih promašaja iz igračke istorije koji su pokušavali da prošire granice medija na revolucionarne načine:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/02/finding-nemo-the-story-behind-hasbros-nintendo-killer

[milan]

U Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu, Plejstejsn 4 je postao najbrze prodavana konzola u istoriji... Za 48 sati su prodali 250 000 komada. XBox je za isto vreme prodat u 180 000...
(inace, video sam u Gigatronu u trznom centru Stadion jednu izlozenu cetvorku... Prodavac mi je rekao da misli da ce se konzola naci u prodaji pred Novu godinu, i da ce kostati oko 50 000 dindzi...)


Edit: ubacio ovo u zagradi

[Meho Krljic]

Super Hexagon portovan na Commodore 64 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-02-super-hexagon-ported-to-commodore-64-with-micro-hexagon

[zakk]

radost!

[Meho Krljic]

Zombie survival simova se nakotilo opasno u poslednje vreme (uzeo sam State of Decay na steamovoj rasprodaji i radujem joj se unapred), ali to me nije sprečilo da kikstartujem Dead State pre nekoliko meseci. Ljudi su upravo objavili novi video i ovo izgleda vrlo obećavajuće (barem ako ste voleli X-Com, Jagged Alliance, Fallout 1 i 2 i tako to):

http://youtu.be/Q8eV3njMISE

[Father Jape]

RPS, u svom dvadesetpetodnevnom osvrtu na najupečatljivije igre godine, piše još jednom o Papers, Please

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/04/the-amazing-astonishing-rps-advent-calendar-day-4/

[Meho Krljic]

Electronic Arts se baš ukopao sa Battlefield 4 problemima na novim konzolama. Vrednost deonica im je pala 5% a i najavili su da ništa novo neće da rade dok ovo ne srede... Jebiga, "games are service" filozofija je dobar sluga ama zao gospodar.

[Meho Krljic]

Channel 4 napravio solidan dokumentarac o igrama, uz učešće imena kao što su Kara Elison ili Eli Gibson. Bt će dostupno za striming do kraja meseca:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/charlie-brooker-videogames-changed-the-world/4od

[Meho Krljic]

Valveov inženjer izumeo kontrolere kojima možete sa tehnologijom interagovati jezikom i... er... dupetom.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-05-valve-man-invents-tongue-and-bum-controllers

[Father Jape]

Baš krenuh sinoć da ga gledam. Vodi Čarli Bruker, a kreću lepo po redu, od Ponga.

[Father Jape]

Gledam sad još malo. Ne samo što se pojavljuje Mehova voljena Keza Makdonald, već ima i legitimnih selebritija poput Džonatana Rosa i... Salmana Rušdija.

[Father Jape]

Čak i Quinns prozbori jednu, a Rob Florence više njih (divnim, mora se istaći, akcentom). Pa mi fali nekako u celoj toj ekipi Kieron. : |
(sami developeri se podrazumevaju, od tvoraca Ponga preko Romera i Šejfera do Molinjua i Rajta)

[Meho Krljic]

Kieron je ipak izdao scenu i prodao se Marvelu, nije ga se moglo uvrstiti ovde.

[milan]

Ne diraj u Kierona!

[Meho Krljic]

Odgledah ceo dokumentarac i, da, Kieron bi svakako tu bio prirodan učesnik. No, lepo je da boje RPSa brane Quinns i Rab, makar ne bili "pravi" RPSovci. Ali meni je izuzetno drago (pored toga što sad imam još nekoliko minuta Keze Makdonald da na njih masturbiram) da se tu pojavljuju neki stariji ljudi koji poznaju i vole savremene igre (Ross, O'Brian) i koji demonstriraju da to nije tek klinačka ili 18-35 zabava.