GameDev.NetMaximum game development!The Daily GameDev.net- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Diablo 3. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, I'm done. Diablo 3. Crytek is estimating that &111;nly &111;ne in every twenty PC gamers is a legitimate player. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said to IGN: "It's crazy how the ratio between sales to piracy is probably 1 to 15 to 1 to 20 right now." When asked how Yerli came to the conclusion that the amount of piracy for PC games was this absurdly high... Well, Cevat Yerli was not asked this...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499651 Trinigy announces release of "Vision Engine 7"- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Trinigy today announced the release of "Vision Engine 7". The next generation of its widely adopted middleware solution. At the core of Vision 7 is a completely revised geometry pipeline that offers extremely fast and memory-efficient rendering of vast, highly detailed scenarios. The new system has been designed from scratch for optimal performance &111;n PC, Xbox360 and Playstation3. Furthermore, Vision's fully-fledged WYSIWYG scene editor vForge has been enhanced with a convenient Prefab...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499690 The Daily GameDev.net- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Senior producer &111;n Call of Duty: World At War Noah Heller (who is an Activision employee and not a Treyarch &111;ne) was talking about how the development team of the game didn't really think about Gearbox's Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway and dismissed it as "a crappy war game." Heller went &111;n to say that Gearbox's game "isn't even the same league" as Call of Duty: World at War. I'm not actually sure where to begin talking about this story. I'm commonly considered to be a very blunt...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499767 ShiVa 1.6 3D Game Development Platform released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) ShiVa is an all-in-one development tool, dedicated to 3D games creation. The engine is cross platform, and runs &111;n Windows and Mac OS X (Linux and iPhone versions are closed to being released). This new version comes with a lot of new features such as a terrain module and an animation editor. You can give a try to the free and not time limited PLE version, or just learn more &111;n this new version at : http:www.stonetrip.com.http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499776 GANG to Sponsor Interactive Entertainment Category at 24th Annual TEC Awards- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Bio Shock, Call Of Duty 4, Halo 3, The Orange Box, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune compete for the award; winner to be announced October 3rd in San Franciscohttp://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499286 |