One day, like many of us, i hope to get into the gaming industry.

So, now ive started a Blogg up about Trying to get into the Gaming Industry, and hopefully i will help you find a way to get into it too.

So if your Interested, ive just started this blog up, and will hope to do a Post or 2 a day.

I'll be looking at, Jobs Available, a great one in Sweden just came up working with the Battlefield developers, a programmer that they will train up, no experiance nessasary by the looks of it.

I'll be looking at artists, journalism, general game development, engines and anything else i can find that will help people get into the industry.

Intrested? Head over, id love to hear what people think, and what they want to know!

http://gamingindustry.wordpress.com/

Every little Helps :)

Ohh snap, 1 year since last blog, i feel, well like i kinda dont care.

I must rant to you tho, Call of Duty 4 for my Xbox360 has been violated by my Xbox, and now it doesnt work, ohh... the pain, the scratches, the wet jigsaw puzzle.

My heart goes to Jeff Gerstmann, who i will miss, and i'll be making sure i catch him on his blog site.

Laterziglle

Merry Christmas, Hope you all got some Love.

People who got a PS3 or Wii, hope your enjoying them, have a good time.

Hope you all got something you wanted, Socks, slippers, underwear and dehoderant doesnt count, thats standard christmas issue.

Have a good new year, Drive safely, Drink responcebly.

Finally the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Website has been launched, well... its up, but its coming soon, also its now confirmed as a 2007 release, ive been waiting for this game for ages.

Check it out at, http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ffcc/

Also check out Scan images. http://www.ffrepublic.com/pics/266-vkffmaqjmm.jpg
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6089/1165415684093uz2.jpg
http://www.gfdata.de/archiv12-2006-gamefront/ffcc.jpg

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Still Waiting on Final Fantasy 3 and a UK Release, although this Thursday im gunna do some Christmas Shopping and hopefully head down to a store in Chesterfield Called CASTLE GAMES, which i get afew imports from there every now and again. dont know if he will have it, seems tho its a massively waited title and hes got afew people asking him about it.

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I SHOULD be playing a Nintendo Wii... but im not.

I Cancelled my Pre-order on the 28th of November and baught an Xbox360, Tony Hawks Project 8 and Gears of War Collectors edition for £300 at Gamestation, Saving me around £80, which was great, I just need to purcahse an XboxLive Gold account so i can continue playing it online.

Although Gamestation still think my name is down for buying a Nintendo Wii, its quite funny because if i had the cash i would probably have baught it, but im not interested at the moment, the games got some bad reviews and im not a big Zelda fan because ive only owned Nintendo Handhelds.

I'll probably look to buy a Wii sometime next year when some better games come out, Hopefully September so i dont have to worry about a Christmas Rush.

Anyways, my gamercard is on the bottom of my Profile, im gunna sit back and play some Unreal 1 on the PC.

If this is my Last blog post before X-mas then Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I'll be playing the closed beta as soon as i get the client.

I love MMORPG's, but they all seem rubbish.

I think i'll make one one day, i'll make it similar to Final Fantasy 9, then it will kick ass.

This will be like... my 26th MMO ive played or Tested.

Aparently its got a nice feel to it, and should be pretty good.

Another MMORPG im waiting for Closed Beta is Scions of Fate, formally known as Yulgang, witch was pretty Big in Japan (What isnt? :P n.b. Guano Apes rock!)

And on the plus side im also waiting for a Tekken like online game, where you make your own characters, fully customisable aparently with loads of looks and loads of moves to choose from 'Aparently'

Anyways check it out http://game.ijji.com/teaser.nhn?gameId=u_kwonho

This is really annoying me now, i Pre-Orderd my Wii just after the whole price announce conference in September, i had all the right views about the Wii, but over the past month ive been thinking hard about it.

Ive really been looking forward to Red steel, Call of Duty 3 and Zelda, but now its been released in the US tommorow so afew sites have got game reviews up already...

All the games seem to be getting poor reviews...

Or sites are reviewing and saying totally different things, i mean what am i ment to go by? Im not getting a Wii if the reviewers cant even make their mind up.

RedSteel 5.5 on gamespot
Redsteel 90% and 78% on other sources.

Zelda 9.5 on IGN
Zelda 8.8 on Gamespot

Ive only played acouple of zelda's part way through, never owned the consoles from nintendo, only a Gameboy, and DS witch i love.

Call of Duty 3 on Wii is practically the same game as X360 and the PS3 version, but CoD 3 on the Wii was said a month ago to have the BEST gameplay.

But now IGN have rated it fairly low... 7.5
X360 Version rated 8.8
And even the Xbox version 8.8

so its not about the graphics as Activision used PS2 and Xbox as a benchmark for making the graphics on Wii.


So what the hells going on inside these reviewers heads.

Maybe they will convince me to cancel my Wii Pre-order.

Unless anyone can convince me otherwise i think i'll go get an X360 and Gears of War.

With the whole Next Gen Wars finnaly about to come to an end, although the beggining of Sales about to begin, Whats really going to rattle the cage of now and the future?

What im going to look at in this report are the main problems with what gaming could amount too.

Do we really need High Definition?
No, we dont need High Definition to enjoy games, why make a console today that gets the best use out of High Definition, yes the options are there if you do happen to have a HD TV, but if you dont have one, you might end up paying extra $150 dollers towards a console that is giving something you dont need, is this Why PS3 is going to be Expensive? Yes, see further for Blue Ray.

High Definition TV'a have been on the Market a little over 1 year, and a good sized one (You wouldnt want a small one) will set you back into a 4 figure sum, its really too early to put High Definition into a console, instead they couldve just made the console have more power for the extra money you were paying.

Why are games getting better graphically?
With the recent Cell technology and better graphic chip capabilities Graphics in games are getting alot better, At a more affordable price.

Do we want real life looking Games?
Its nice to sometimes see a game thats Visually Stunning, great facial expressions on a character and effects that put real life lighting too shame.

But photo realistic games are what we want i hear you say... well, lets look at some of the up-sides and down-sides of Photo Realistic Games.

Up-Sides

• Looks Fantastic
• Makes you feel there.

Down-Sides

• Too real, might take away the Fantasy side of gaming.
• Cost more money to buy the console and games.

So where do we put the line inbetween Virtual Reality and Reality?
Is there anywhere to put the line?
I mean soon enough games are going to be photo realistic, so where do we put the line?

Unfortunatly i dont think there is going to be anywhere to put the line, on some games of course, not all.

As an Example, Call of Duty 4 for a Next Gen Console say, it comes out for the Playstation 4. Ok, so weve seen quite afew versions of this First Person Shooter, set in a real war, with real enemies and real guns.

Where do we seperate Shooting somone that looks completely real, in a realistic enviroment, from shooting a real person?

Looking back over the past 20 years, Films have often got banned for showing graphic images that contain the killing of people with blood and effects to make it look real.

With games like this, but even more graphic and the fact a Game Simulates killing, what can we expect?

We've already seen incidents where people have seen a movie or played a game and gone out and killed somone or in some cases alot of people, The under 18 school kid who played  the famous ManHunt witch took you killing gang members in a horrible and brutal fashion aparently warped the mind of the young boy, who killed his friend aparently for no reason.

There was also a shooting incident in America where a couple of teenangers that had seen The Matrix film, and thaught they might have been part of the imaginated system where 'We're not really alive' and living in a computer world, they went out to their local school cafeteria with shotguns and other guns, aparently with sun glasses and long black trench coats and shot fellow students during lunch hour.

Conclusion
As a conclusion, maybe realistic games arnt the answser, or we shouldnt judge the mentality of afew individuals and say the world will get worse because of gaming.
Better graphics are nice, but not needed.


Maybe Gaming is a mind wash?
Maybe its for Self improvement?
Maybe if we ever get thrown into a situation from a game we will know what to do?
Maybe gaming is just entertainment?

I dont know but i like it...

Yay, preorderd it at my Local Gamestation, its gunna kick ass, although on the forms i had to fill in i messed up my email address, they should have me on record tho :S

Anyways YAYAY

Final Fantasy XII is coming to the Nintendo DS!

Although wether or not we know if its a port of FFXII i doubt it would be, as its on PS2, although aparently this is a prequal or spin off from FFXII, Called Final Fantasy XII: Revenant wings.

(Aparently most likely going to be a sequal)

Looks like we will be seeing more Final Fantasy Titles on the DS since the FF3 engine is now perfect for making FF games on DS.

Also a Kindom Hearts game has been announced for the PS2 and a new DS game Based on the Of Mana series called Heroes of Mana.

Heres the Poster for it.

So ive been spreading the word on acouple of places about this.
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Can anyone shed alittle light on this image, like what its from (If not HL3), if anyone knows where it was taken, and if its a leaked release, or fake, or might be just a visual representation, there doesnt seem to be much about the image, after searching the origonal location i searched the filename and it was all russian or foreign sites that mentioned it, about 4 sites that mentioned it total.

I am currently 50/50, it looks like thats what it would look like, maybe better after some HDR lighting and alittle more details, so it could just be a demo level from the engine thats been developed for HL3. On the other hand, Valve stated a while ago they were releasing the Episodes for HL2 to fill the space, and said that because developing the HL2 engine took so long, and it took so long to make the game, the episodes are to fill a gap, witch leads me to belive if there is infact a Half life 3 engine been developed, it would be about 30% complete if not less. So it will be about 4 years untill a game is released.

So if it is an actuall in-engine image thats has been renderd ( Dont forget alot of effects and detail will still need adding onto it) then it looks pretty good, and will be Direct X10b version and probably require 1gb of RAM to be played with low Graphics settings and 35-45fps.

One other thing is i think that it might not be real, purely because this image hasnt really made it out of the bag on the internet i dont belive(Yet), so the fact it might be fake comes to mind, although better than what everyone else is saying about the photographs of sewers and somone
holding a crowbar in a town to make it look like HL3.

Plus HL3 hasnt been announced yet, only speculations if they leave a door open in Episode 3.

Anyway, ive rambled on, so heres the image.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/stu1515/hl33uw.jpg