Douglas Cartland

Usually I'm stoked whenever I see new videos and news here on joystiq as you most of the time are up to speed on things, making this blog a great source for news. But this video is incredibly old though. I recall watching this on youtube months ago.

People. PLEASE stop following everyone else's opinion and make your own. It's like people are agreeing to what people post on this blog just to be part of the IN crowd.

I'm no xbox 360 hater or PS3 fanboy, but that trailer actually looks really nice. Before E3, they probably edited the video after it was recorded and added a few additional dirt filters and other subtle visual effects.

COMPANIES DO THAT IN ADS FOR COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. EVEN FOR 360 AND WII GAMES. PDZ and Red Steel are two prime examples. They also probably recorded Motor storm from angles you as a player cannot access to make the game look cooler. They are developers of the game, they can do that.

Heck, increasing the games appeal is the very reason why pre-rendered footage even exists. I'm well aware that this was meant to be in-game footage, and I think it was very close to being it. They just wanted to add those extra subtle effects.

#19, as for PDZ, their whole advertisement campaign showed off the better looking pre-rendered Joanna. Heck, they even made a model render for the men's mag FHM. PDZ was overly hyped and what disappointed me the most was how they were not true to the original game.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Take-2-Interactive-Nukem-Forever/dp/B00005NCEZ/sr=8-5/qid=1165146868/ref=sr_1_5/203-2901351-4677552?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

Amazon.co.uk states a September 29, 2007 release date. (My birthday to be exact. :D) Not that amazon counts as any real confirmation, but hey, thought I should comment it anyway.

Where can I get this trailer song? I absolutely LOVE the beginning section's guitar!! The drum 'n bass rock section's not too bad either.

First 4 and a half minutes though all they talk about is "WE'RE GONNA SHOW YOU AN AUDIO CLIP OF THE TRAILER".. a bit tedious to hear after a while.

Neat music though during those 90 secs.

First part of the thank you section has music very inspired by Devil May Cry it seems. Scarily similar.

I don't mean to sound negative or anything, but this is REALLY old news. His last blog post was several weeks ago...

"So the first known video game was created on the job." This is not true. Well, it's not true on a global scale, but if you consider America to be the "world", then yes... :/

Noughts and Crosses was implemented on the EDSAC computer by A.S. Douglas as part of human-computer interactivity research at Cambridge University in 1952.

A few links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC
http://www.thocp.net/software/games/early_years.htm#1952
http://www.pong-story.com/1952.htm

What Higinbotham did in 1958 was quite cool, yes. But he was not the first like you claim.

That's like saying reading a book is like masturbating instead of having a two way communication with the author of the book. Which is defo not true. Playing a single player game is an experience one can share with others. Heck, why do forums and fan sites dedicated to single player games exist?

Single player games extend their purpose futher than just being alone in front of the screen, and will therefore not die like the point-and-click adventure genre.

Such a shame, he's done alot of good stuff. How did he die?

I don't mean to rant like a fanboy right now, but surely this is really old news. I mean fans of PoP have known about this since the production days of Warrior Within (more than a year ago!). The producer of WW talks (in the "making of..." video) about how Jordan Mechner is in L.A. working on the film. You can download the video from their official site here:

http://www.princeofpersiagame.com/uk/ww/videos.php