NanoGeekTechTV: Happy Feet 2 in 3D - Trailer

The sequel to Warner Bros' hit 2006 animation comedy and one of my favorite movies about the world of dancing and singing Penguins is due out in "November."

Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria are lending their vocals to the 3D flick, alongside the first film’s stars Robin Williams and Elijah Wood.

The teaser, below, shows the all-singing, all-dancing penguins flapping around to renditions of LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” and Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” - swapped for “fluffy back” in the PG adventure.

Happy Feet 2 3D Trailer

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SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT TO GIVE FIRST YEAR POST MORTEM ON PS3 3D GAMING AT DEVELOP CONFERENCE IN FULL HD 3D AT THE ODEON CINEMA

Mick Hocking to present opening keynote at Develop in Brighton– 19-21 July 2011

Sony Computer Entertainment’s Vice President Mick Hocking will reveal whether it’s a happy first birthday for 3D gaming on PlayStation 3 during a keynote presentation at the Develop Conference in Brighton. Hocking’s address - The Stereoscopic 3D Experience: The First Year of 3D on PlayStation 3 - will take place at the Odeon Brighton cinema in full HD stereoscopic 3D and open the third day of the conference on Thursday 21 July.

Develop delegates will hear about the transition from promoting 3D gaming to actually delivering the experience into people’s homes, as well as tales about what can go wrong with 3D content and a glimpse into the future to see how new technologies may shape the 3D gaming experience in coming years.

“I’m really looking forward to giving this keynote at Develop. I’ll be doing a 3D post-mortem from Killzone 3, and also showing how we implemented 3D as an advanced post effect in SOCOM 4 . I’ll look at how we used a 2D camera for 3D augmented reality in EyePet Move. Actually being able to show these on a big screen with surround sound will make all the difference for the audience,” commented Mick Hocking.

Hocking is in charge of the WWS Stereoscopic 3D team and is Vice President for the Studio Group which includes London Studio, Evolution Studios, Studio Liverpool and BigBig Studios. The Stereoscopic 3D Team has been pioneering 3D game development for the last two years, drawing upon their wealth of previous experience working with high end 3D simulators for F1 and Flight Simulation.

The Develop Conference in Brighton celebrates its sixth birthday this year and promises a stellar line up of speakers, sessions and socialising. Around 1,300 delegates from across the globe are expected to attend.
Registration is open at www.developconference.com. Early bird rates are available for one month only.

Notes to editors:

Mick’s Bio: Mick Hocking is the Vice President Studio Group for London Studio, Studio Liverpool, Evolution Studios and BigBig studios - part of the Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios group. Mick has been largely responsible for the creation and development of some of the PlayStations leading racing brands; notably the officially licensed World Rally Championship (WRC) series of games for the PS2 and latterly the multi platinum selling and award winning MotorStorm franchise for PS3. Mick is also the Director of the WorldWide Studios 3D Team that looks after the development of 3D games across all of Sony’s Studios and is working to maintain SONY’s place at the forefront of 3D entertainment. Mick is also responsible for the Academic partnership between Sony and Academia throughout Europe.

Mick was a founding member of Evolution Studios, holding the positions of Director of Development and ultimately Managing Director. During this time he oversaw the operational running of the studio and worked in both publisher and licensor relations, helping to create and drive over 4million sales of the WRC series. Mick was instrumental in the formation of BigBig studios in 2000 which went onto develop the ground breaking PSP launch title - Pursuit Force and most recently the critically acclaimed MotorStorm: Arctic Edge.

During his career, Mick has won awards for the creation and development of key artificial intelligence based gaming systems (WARGEN) for PC flight simulations - EF2000, F22-ADF and Total Air War. WARGEN went on to be licensed by the Royal Air force as a training aid and instruction tool.

About the Develop Conference:

The sixth Develop Conference will take place at the Hilton Metropole in Brighton, UK, from 19 - 21 July 2011. It attracts around 1300 game developers from over 20 different territories and has become firmly established as the leading conference in Europe for games developers. Delegates can apply for conference passes at: www.developconference.com.

Delegates can purchase one, two and three day passes to Develop priced at£330,£565 and£680 respectively. Early bird rates are£275,£450 and£525. Audio track passes are£280 (£225 early bird). Indie Dev Day passes are£75 (£50 early bird).

Evolve focuses on how to develop games for new and emerging platforms, new technologies and new markets like social and casual gaming. It opens on Tuesday 19 July then continues with individual sessions within the main conference programme on Wednesday 20 July, which are cross-discipline and have a more general appeal.

Indie Dev Day the new day-long conference and networking event running alongside Develop is designed for established independent studios, new start-ups, wannabe indies, freelance developers and students. The sessions will complement the brand new Indie Dev Showcase: a dedicated area within the Develop Expo (20 - 21 July) featuring some of the exciting and new indie projects currently under development.

Games:EDU is a one-day conference taking place on Wednesday 20 July alongside Develop, which brings together the UK's foremost educators from across all disciplines to connect directly with developers and games producers, to exchange ideas and perspectives.

About Tandem Events:

Tandem Events has over 20 years of experience in organising market-leading exhibitions, conferences and events across a number of industry sectors, including Develop and Evolve in Brighton, Evolve in London, Develop in Liverpool, Games:EDU, Games Marketing Forum and Games Grads.

www.tandemevents.co.uk

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Watch 3D movies in 2D?

There’s a good chunk of the population that really don’t enjoy viewing 3D movies in theaters because of headache's and eyestrain effect. I for one, is not a part of that demographic. I'm fortunate enough to have no issues viewing 3D movies. Now there’s a solution. These ingenious 2D Glasses convert Real3D movies as seen in the cinemas, into a standard 2D experience.

So for all the anti-3D zealots out there, you now have reason to shut-up and enjoy your movie.

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Nintendo "Project Cafe" to Introduces “Screen Stream” Technology HD Controllers

The cat's out of the bag,  Nintendo is hard at work on a Wii successor that will actually use modern specs and technology; well kinda.  The internet is ablaze with wild speculation and rumors of Nintendo's PS3/360 HD killer "Project Cafe"(Nintendo and HD in the same breath).

Besides having modern specs that will compete even surpass the current HD champs Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox360 the most intriguing thing about "Project Cafe" will no doubt be the controller.

Nintendo builds consoles around innovative control schemes that just happens to change the way we play and interact with Video Games.    

It would seem that the Wii 2/Project Cafe will make use of integrated “Screen Stream” technology which will send players the game directly to their controller, displaying the action on built-in HD touch-screens. Each player will have a separate image connected to their part in the game, while the TV will be able to display each camera angle or turned off altogether.

Capable of splitting the images to four controllers and their 1080p HD displays, the hardware uses a special custom triple-core processor with an IBM PowerPC chip-set, similar to the one found in the Xbox 360. This will allow it the ability to be faster than Sony’s PS3 NVIDIA 7800GTX.

It seems Nintendo may be onto something again with a clever and innovate way to interact with games.  Does Screen Stream Technology sound fucking cool or will it be the half-ass attempt to attract all the core-gamers Nintendo have lost over the past decade that fizzles in a few years.

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Katherine Marlowe Uncharted 3D Villain?

The Uncharted series for the PS3 has always been an epic non-stop action joy ride. Naughty Dog's third entry Uncharted:Drake's Deception 3-D is turning out to be Sony's PS3 next must have game.

In the new cutscene, Sony PS3 owners are introduced for the very first time to Katherine Marlowe, an aging British woman. According to Naughty Dog, Marlowe is the current head of a 400-year-old cabal associated with none other than Queen Elizabeth and her sea-faring explorer Sir Francis Drake, Nathan's long-dead relative. At the outset of the cutscene, Drake and Sully are thrown out into an alleyway somewhere in urban England, where they're roughed-up by some of Marlowe's goons. It's only after the two men are adequately subdued that Marlowe herself shows up.

New Uncharted: Drake's Deception Video:
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception


Video Source:[IGN]

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Hawk-Eye Tech for Sony PS3?

Could Sony be planning to throw a curve ball when it comes to motion gaming? Sony has paid some £20million to buy the UK company behind the Hawk-Eye technology used to track balls in a variety or sports including cricket and tennis.

Hawk-Eye is a complex computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the path of the ball and display a record of its most statistically likely path as a moving image. In some sports, like tennis, it is now part of the adjudication process. It is also used in some instances to predict the future path of a ball in cricket. It was developed by engineers at Roke Manor Research Limited of Romsey, Hampshire in the UK, in 2001


Source:[Spong][Wikipedia]

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Last Guardian What we Know According to: Famitsu

Famitsu has a four page feature on The Last Guardian. It apparently includes a demo play session along with an interview of Fumito Ueda.  Sony's PS3 exclusive Last Guardian is the most anticipated game this year.

Here's some of the info that has leaked out of the feature:

• You initially can't communicate with Torico, so he'll quickly fall asleep.
• Torico can't eat everything. If he eats something he doesn't like, he'll spit it out.
• The game uses a collision system with similar capabilities to that of Shadow of the Colossus.
• Even if you're caught by the guards that fill the dungeons, the game doesn't immediately end.
• Torico may have a life gauge.
• They're currently looking into the possibility of showing gauges to support the player -- this is one area that Ueda is worrying over.
• In its impressions of the game, Famitsu commented that it exceeded expectations -- it's real that exceeds real.
• Torico actions are very detailed -- down to the level of his reacting differently depending on the sound in the area.
• The game uses a fake language
• Famitsu commented that the boy main character's movements are also incredible. Ueda responded that when the boy approaches a wall, he will naturally extend his arms out, and as he approaches Torico, he will touch the creature. To show the feeling of existence for the characters, you need to show such actions that make it look like the character himself knows that there's a wall there.

Ueda also talked quite a bit about the game's expressive and physical computation power.

Regarding Team Ico's PS3 remakes, Ueda said that Shadow of the Colossus is amazing when you see it in 3D. For ICO, he said that they're remaking the opening scene.

Source:[andriasang]

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PS3 Themes go 3D

Just spent 3 months salary on a spanking new 3D HD TV and you're graving 3D content. Sony has just dropped a 3D PixelJunk Shooter 2 dynamic theme that's available right now from the Japanese PlayStation Store. Keep your eyes on the US and European store updates this week to see if the theme makes the jump.

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Kinect as 3D scanner: Copy Yourself

A new project uses the Microsoft Kinect as a crude 3D scanner. Joris said, "Fabricate Yourself is a tool by Karl Willis of Interactive Fabrication. Released at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference, the tool lets people strike a pose in front of a Microsoft Kinect. If they like the pose they can 3D print the result. The tool is not yet finished and improvements in resolution have to be made."

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Killzone 3 It Only Does Kevin Butler

Everyone's favorite spoke's person has a new product to pitch, maybe you've heard about it Killzone 3. The two new adverts for PS3 exclusive Killzone 3 have been released, and they star internet sensation we have all grew to love Kevin Butler. In one he appears to be stamping his signature onto pictures of himself, and in the other he plays Killzone 3 using the Move controller.

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NanoGeekTechTV: PS Move Sharp Shooter: Killzone 3/SOCOM 4 Walkthrough

Sony's PS Move Sharp Shooter does look good and better yet it actually works very well with Killzone 3. You can see by the video Sony has put a lot of thought and consideration into the Sharp Shooter. Check out the video below.

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Great Deal Alert: Industrial-grade 3D animation suite for $10-$40

The guys at Project:Messiah are doing something interesting. Messiah's a piece of 3D animation and rendering software, so named as it was first assembled for use on the movie Dogma. It's seriously heavy-duty kit - a rigger's dream with lightning-fast bones, fabric sim that's top-notch, beautiful rendering and all that jazz. It's normally $500-$1,200 for the full version, which puts it in the 'Sizeable studio or Rich Guy' bracket. They're trying an experiment, though - they're offering the entry version for $10, and the whole tamale for $40. If enough people buy it at this price, everyone gets what they paid for. If they don't hit their quota, then everyone gets a refund.

Source:[ProjectMessiah.com] Via: [imaginetix.co.uk]

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Epic New Killzone 3 Footage

Some new gameplay footage has emerged online for Killzone 3 and Sony was quick to have it yanked. So check out and enjoy the video before it disappears.

Video is in Russian so I advised you watch with the volume down.
Spoiler Alert: Please be warned.

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Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man

Sony Pictures has unveiled the first picture of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man...

...Looks pretty bad ass if you ask me.

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Say it ain't so: Matrix 4 and 5 are being Considered

Keanu Reeves has disclosed that he met the Wachowski brothers over Christmas to discuss development of the fourth and fifth instalments in the Matrix saga. Instalments which will be in 3D.

Considering that Matrix Reloaded was a major disappointment and Matrix Revolutions was terrible. Where can they go with the Matrix franchise? How can the Wachowskis brothers capture the magic in the original Matrix?

Maybe 3D will help.

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Trailer

After the break you'll find Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, and I suggest you check it out soon before Square pulls it from YouTube.

Video of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

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Expanded Uncharted 3 Video Footage

Jimmy Fallon give us the first peek at the live gameplay of Uncharted 3. The demo was brief and showed just a small glimpse of the gameplay. Sony has released two videos that shows just a tad more. More hand to hand combat, great shooting mechanics, and visuals that will set the bar for every Playstation 3 title that comes out.

Uncharted 3 Video

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Epic Mickey is Not Heading to PS3

Sorry to bust your bubble, Epic Mickey will not be coming PS3 after all. Spanish site PSNow! set the media outlets buzzing about the release of Epic Mickey for the PlayStation – unfortunately, it was nothing more than a prank.

The site posted a story correction after the original article explaining that December 28 is Spain’s version of April Fool’s Day. “Logically, we would have [been] delighted to announce the world premiere of Epic Mickey’s launch on the PlayStation 3, but that time [isn’t] today…PS: Sorry to break the hearts of international sites that have linked [us] in the last hours,” the translation reads.

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Will Epic Mickey HD Come To The PS3 in 2011?

Do not know if to label this as horse shit or rumor, as of right now I will label it as a rumor because it makes some sense. It looks like Disney Interactive and Warren Spector's 2D masterpiece, Epic Mickey, will be heading to the PS3 very soon.

A Spanish website called PSNow! reported earlier the big news, but the article has mysteriously vanished. According to QJ.net, "we got some fresh details about Mickey's PS3 outing. According to reports, the game "will not be a conversion of the game released a few weeks ago for Wii, but an independent development in a parallel since 2008, with an engine optimized to the capabilities of PlayStation 3, which will allow 720p native resolution and a rate of 60 frames per second sustainable."

Epic Mickey is also to support the PlayStation Move and "will be available in physical format Blu-ray and through digital download from PlayStation Store." QJ.net, also suggest that "the game launch will occur after a period of exclusivity for at least six months given to Nintendo. As expected,our boy Mickey will have a Collector's Edition of the game that will contain the film Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 on Blu-ray with bonus content yet to reveal.

From a marketing stand point this seems like a pretty sensible rumor. Disney is in the movie business and to have a grand re-release of Fantasia on Blu-ray along side with Epic Mickey coming to the PS3 in HD Blu-ray and probably 3D? It's a win win for all involved.

[QJ.net]via [PSNow] [Gametrailers]

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Hillcrest Labs brings LG's Magic Motion remote to life

Hillcrest's cool as shit remote that was unveil at last year's CES, is some pretty cool tech.  Think Nintento's Wii-mote or Sony PS3 Move. LG Magic Motion remotes will be packed in with LG's new top of the line LCD, the 3D capable, LED backlit LE9500.  Magic Motion is a RF remote that users wave, Sony PS3-style, to operate the onscreen menus. There will also be a standard IR remote for universal remote compatibility to assist those who are just too lazy to lift their arms to change the channel compatibility.

Press Release

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