Which joystick?

When the RackaRacka Youtube channel released a short film last week showing Call of Duty players taking on Halo’s Master Chief, gamers around the globe went crazy on social media. But it was also notable how newspapers and other mainstream outlets were desperate to...

Developers wanted

Amazon plans to enter the gaming industry directly with the launch of a PC video game, a new job post by Gamasutra would suggest. Even though Amazon has skirted around the video game industry for years, launching mobile games and acquiring Twitch.TV, this is the first...

Natural woman

There’s an obsession in art with making female characters “pretty” that frequently leaves cartoon women with facial features that would scare the crap out of us if they belonged to an actual human being. What makes it worse is that it tends to be the same face over...

Adobe buys Mixamo

Adobe has purchased Mixamo (San Francisco, CA), maker of a 3D character pipeline aimed at game developers, including an automatic online rigging tool designed to quickly turn 3D meshes into standardized, fully rigged skeletons. Mixamo said its software and services...

Effectless

A YouTube video shows what Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s most recent movie, “San Andreas” would have looked like without the green screen computer-generated imagery (CGI). “San Andreas” is action and disaster movie set in California and shows ‘The Rock’ as the main...