The Mocap Club has posted an interview with Uncharted 2 Cinematics Lead, Josh Scherr on the mocap process for the game’s high quality cinematics, complementing the videos on the subject included with the game. Some technical insights towards the end, but most interesting of all is the emphasis placed on the human side of the [...]

While it’s always been a format for mocap files, its recent adoption as an optional non-proprietary animation import format by the Unreal 3 Engine as well as take-up by development teams within the industry means .fbx is fast becoming the real standard format for transferring animation data between varying content-creation packages and game engines, so [...]

I just got my second Xbox Red Ring, leaving me out of the Read Dead Redemption multiplayer action for the foreseeable future. Given that I got the first one as soon as I stuck Rockstar’s last opus GTA4 in the tray I’m wondering if they’re overclocking the console in a similar manner to which Chains [...]

One can’t help thinking that this is a little in bad taste, given the recent failed bombing attempt in Times Square, but that doesn’t stop this classic game-inspired short “Pixels” by director Patrick Jean being awesome.

Those of you not visiting via a feed reader will notice that the site has undergone another of its annual facelifts, though this time the occasion is significant for two reasons: First of all, this May marks the 5th anniversary of maintaining this blog. When I first started I wrote under a pseudonym as the [...]