
2008 proved to be great year for NaturalMotion. Its much-anticipated procedural animation technology euphoria shipped in GTA IV, one of the year's top titles. Still, CEO Torsten Reil is confident 2009 will be even better.
As ever, there's lots going on behind the scenes – all of which will be revealed in due course, he explains. More generally though, he's very enthusiastic about the state of the middleware market, which he predicts will overtake the games tool market in terms of revenue. "There are decades of growth ahead," he says.

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.

Darryl Linington from Notebookheck writes: "Keebmon is a crowdfunded foldable workstation concept that combines a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC, a 13-inch ultrawide touchscreen, and a low-profile mechanical keyboard in a single aluminum device."

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