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Steam Weekend Deal: Four Ubisoft Classics For $10
3:00AM Mike Fahey | Steam concludes its week long sale salute to Ubisoft by offering four classic titles from the publisher for just under US$10, including Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry.
Spend Two Days With Uwe Boll In LA This Week
4:30AM Mike Fahey | Whether you are morbidly curious or just a glutton for punishment, there’s no finer place to be in Los Angeles on Wednesday and Thursday than the Uwe Boll Film Festival at the Downtown Independent.
Far Cry 2 Lands On Steam, But Only For North America
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Hey, kids. Far Cry 2 is out. Ubisoft has shipped the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game to retail stores, letting you shoot things in Africa with really excellent foliage. Valve also got in touch with us to let us know that the Steam version has hit the tubes, with one caveat: it’s for the U.S., Canada and Mexico only. More »
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Oh Noes: Far Cry Releasing in Germany Only
9:00AM Owen Good | Kidding! We mean the piece-of-shit movie Uwe Boll is making under the same title. It has a Germany-only release date of Oct. 2, at least according to the press kit Big Download dug up. But still, big month for Uwe: Postal’s out on DVD, he’s got a game coming out, 1968 Tunnel Rats, which nevertheless sounds like the name of some second-division Bundesliga team. I wonder though, if he makes a movie based on the game of 1968 Tunnel Rats, would that be like a dog eating and then crapping its own turd? Far Cry Movie Premieres Oct 2 in Germany [Big Download] More »Far Cry 2 Is Not Ubisoft Trying To Outdo Crysis
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Far Cry was developed by PC developer Crytek. Crytek made Crysis, and that game is very, very pretty. But Crytek isn’t doing Far Cry 2 — Ubisoft is! The photorealism of Crysis must be somewhat intimidating, even for Ubisoft. But the Far Cry 2 developer is going a different direction. Says the game’s art director Alex Amancio: Very early on we knew that we wanted to go a completely different direction. Instead of going for the tropical island and trying to go for hyper realism, we changed the setting. First of all we wanted to have a really, really credible environment, but we didn’t want to replicate anybody’s vacation photos. Probably smart. Who wants to play somebody’s vacation photos anyway? Far Cry 2 Different [Ubisoft] [Pic] More »
Custom Video Games Training American Spies
5:00AM Owen Good | Fascinating article on Wired.com — the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s CIA counterpart, just paid $2.6 million for three custom video games to train its entire analyst corps, young and old. So, you want to bitch about $US60 titles on the Xbox, think of that next time. Plus, these games are bereft of squad-based FPS tactics or any real arcade action. They’re designed to get to the heart of epistemology, which is, in essence, how you know what you know, and in these three cases, it’s how to assess a threat or judge the quality of information. More »The Far Cry Movie Trailer Is Par For The Course For Uwe Boll
3:01PM Michael McWhertor | This trailer for Uwe Boll’s film adaptation of Far Cry is sure to put asses in movie theater seats. Snappy catchphrases in the making like “I haven’t said anything about being simple” and the gleaming star power of Til Schweiger are going to go a long way to ensuring that Crytek’s game becomes a massive blockbuster. Is it me or is there an out of place punch-in-the-face sound effect near the end? More »
Crytek Talks Crysis 2, Far Cry Movie and CryEngine 2
1:06PM Kotaku US Edition | By John Gaudiosi MONTE CARLO–Cevat Yerli, co-founder, president and CEO of German game developer Crytek, recently was a featured speaker (for the second year running) at Imagina 2008, the annual 3D technology conference in Monaco. Following his discussion on the lessons learned from developing Far Cry and Crysis on CryENGINE and CryENGINE 2, he spoke about the changing face of game development. Today’s landscape has fewer independent game studios, especially on the heels of Electronic Arts acquisition of Bioware and Pandemic. Along with Epic Games and id Software, CryTek remains one of the top independent game makers in the world today. More »
Far Cry 2 Won’t Ruin Itself With Mutants
11:30PM Luke Plunkett | Far Cry was great! Lazy tropical sunshine, garish shirts, great gunplay…oh, wait. No, then they bring in monsters, and the game is totally ruined. The balance, the fun, the bad-80’s-action-movie-vibe, all gone. So it’s not great. Thankfully Ubisoft, who are handling the development of the game’s sequel, are aware of this. And have promised not to do it again, with Far Cry 2 producer Lois-Pierre Pharand re-assuring us “Don’t expect mutants as some surprise later on”. Lois-Pierre, that is the best piece of Far Cry related news we’ve heard in years. New Far Cry 2 details emerge [Edge, via CVG] More »
