Procedural Textures: Gaming's Future

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Allegorithmic has a new technology that it says can make games up to 90% smaller by replacing bitmap textures with mathematically generated ones - and has already seen its technology incorporated by small games publishers. Could this be the future for texturing?

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RoboBlitz Demo

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RoboBlitz, using Epic's Unreal Engine 3 and Ageia PhysX, is a fast-paced action game featuring puzzle-solving and unique physics-based weapons. Players blast through 15+ levels of high-intensity action as Blitz, a multi-talented robot on a mission to save its factory from a band of invading mechanical brains.

Gothic 3 Demo

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3D Gamers is co-premiering the promised playable demo for Gothic 3, offering the chance to sample this recent third-person fantasy action role-playing sequel by Piranha Bytes. This massive download contains "the beginning area of the game, including the towns of Ardea and Kap Dun and the Rebel outpost Reddock, with all available quests, weapons, spells and NPCs. There will be no time limits imposed on players."

Splinter Cell: Double Agent single- & multiplayer Demos

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Ubi Soft has released not one but two playable demos for Splinter Cell: Double Agent, offering the chance to sample both the single-player and multi-player sides of their brand-new stealthy 3D action sequel. The single-player demo contains a portion of the Okhotsk mission, while the multiplayer one includes one map for the Free and Rankings modes, with a few other restrictions.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent Review

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Sam Fisher is back with his first outing on a next-gen platform. We look at the gameplay that the Xbox 360 and PC versions provide, and ask ourselves - can you teach an old agent new tricks?

Resistance In Game

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In game footage from the press start screen from Resistance fall of man

Multi-Core in the Source Engine

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Valve is adding multi-core processor support to Half-Life 2's Source engine in time for the release of Kentsfield. We travelled to Seattle to talk to Gabe Newell and his team about what this will mean for gamers and hardware geeks, as well as examining a new benchmark tool created to show off what can be done.