Recently PS3Land had a chance to interview Kevin Meredith, Director of Business Development at IDV INC. and SpeedTree. Basically the interview went over some of the things that SpeeTree offers for next gen development and what to expect to see in the future.
If you dont know what SpeedTree is then your in luck because this interview will provide information about the tool and all the games you will find it in.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
What nice looking vegetation and trees! I like how those houses look too, very impressive.
Just what this Gri-System needed Prerendered Trees program.Creating Trees and it mutiple effects on PS3 and ps2 hardware is very difficult (Just imagine wanting to make multiple trees Blow at different rates and individual Leave section move with limited memory). Notice that this is on PS3 Side Instead of 360 (although this is in Oblivion.) because PS3 Developer cannot Develop Trees With all of it splendor because Spreading the info is a pain in the ass and along with Memory issues, time consuming and Funds makes this a Bit Better for Developers that are small budgeted. So this is Good News for Sony's developers.
Well I would say this is good news for developers of all consoles. I was the one who did this interview and I can list tons of games that use SpeedTree on the Xbox 360.
-Oblivion
-APB
-Two Worlds
-Saints Row
-2 Days 2 Vegas
-Project Gotham 3
-ect.
so its not just Sony.
Hey, its Barbie Ken here, I just want to say that this new speedtree technology looks gr8 and that it will benefit the tru next gen consoles entirely. BTW...could you buy a pos3? I need the money!1!!one!1!one
We have yet to see SpeedTree technology to its fullest for as we've seen in Oblivion, PGR3 and Full Auto, there is nothing but cross-textured branches without individual leaves(as the SpeedTree images show, there are all individual branches having individual leaves) so this procedural approach has yet to be developed to the level that even the wind effects may be shown !