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Game Industry goes from Geek to Chic
Raiford writes "A Reuters feature story describes how the computer gaming industry is shedding its geek persona in an attempt to attract Hollywood's best visual effects, sound, lighting and animation experts into the gaming fold. The story quotes the executive vice president of Electronic Arts on how rapidly advancing processor technology is demanding an expanded skill set and that Hollywood provides the ready source to meet the demand."
Yeah, like the Drama club geeks are going to work with the CS geeks.
"Best step off, this be technical theater territory."
"Eat it, lighting nerd! The Computer Club rules!"
The rise of the new generation of consoles and the corresponding fall in computer game sales was the least surprising trend of the past year. We knew it was coming, but now that it's here, the change in the landscape is breathtaking. It proves something PC gamers are loathe to admit: Like Internet stocks, PC gaming in the 1990s was an aberration, a bubble. Driven first by the CD-ROM and then by 3D accelerators, PC gaming took the lead in cutting-edge content. Full-motion video, 3D environments, sophisticated gameplay, online gaming: These things made PC games unique. They helped computer games move from the realm of the hobbyist into the mainstream.
And while computer games will never return to a mere hobbyist markey, their heyday is, for the forseeable future, at an end. like some kind of silicon brachiosaurus. computer haming is being brought down by its own weight. It's simple economics: A single piece of a computer gaming rig - the accelerator card - costs more than an Xbox, and doesn't look nearly as cool, come with a DVD player as a basic feature, or display on a huge TV.
Mainstream computer gaming is one controler and an Internet connection away from being thrust into irrelavence. One someone finds a way to effectively and comfortably replicate the fine controls of a first-person shooter for consoles, and once the major console makers get their onlinge gaming services up and functioning, PC gaming ill find itself loping toward the tar pits.
Not even The Sims can save it.
They too, are heading for the consoles.
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Um, Tony Hawk is a real preson. Where are the editors?
out... side?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Game Industry goes from Geek to Chic
Most of our ex-girlfriends pretty much made a similar transition in tastes.
Table-ized A.I.
yes, it is that realy big blue room. The resolution is superb, but I still say the physics are a little off.
It was me, I did it, I moved your cheese
If I worked there, I'd organize all of the programmers to go work downstairs in the posh lobby and tell the management to fuck themselves.
Or you could..... set the building on fire...
I believe you have my stapler.
Guy with mug: We're just gonna move you into the office downstairs..
Programmer: but, but-- thats the janitor's closet!
Guy with mug: yeah...
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