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An Interview with Bay Raitt

Bit Cultures writes: "Bay Raitt is an industry veteran who’s commercial works span across the comic, film, and video game industries. Some of his most commonly recognized video game animation work can be seen in the Valve titles: Half Life 2, the Portal series, Team Fortress 2, and the Left 4 Dead series. Before joining Valve Software, Bay was at the forefront of computer graphics as the Creature Facial Lead at Weta Digital, where he was responsible for modeling and animating the award-winning facial system for the CGI character 'Gollum' in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Behind the scenes, he has helped to design various tools for creative production such as the popular Source Filmmaker, and 3D creation software like Mirai, Wings3D, and Nendo, all the while contributing to his own Digital Sculpting Forum: Spiraloid, and even coining Edge Loop modeling itself! I have always been a fan of his work, and had the chance to ask him a few questions about his background, artistic viewpoint...

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Essential Video Games Everyone Needs To Play At Least Once

Video games are no longer just a simple past time. Today's games are evolving into true works of art. Offering intriguing narratives, cinematic setpieces, and profound messages, games can entertain us for hundreds of hours.

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Chard21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

I never got around to mass effect - I’m skeptical that it would hold up if I were to try it now

Furesis21d ago

I would say it does. The combat is a bit shit for todays standards but everything else is great.

anast21d ago

It's worth a play through today.

gold_drake21d ago

the first one is abit the odd one out but after u finished it, believe it it gets tremendously better and better

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Team Fortress 2 Gets An Unexpected Next-Gen Update After 17 Years

Valve has finally introduced the much-needed 64-bit support in an unexpected Team Fortress 2 update after 17 years since its release.

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Michiel198923d ago

64 bit support is not the same as a next gen upgrade. 64 bit has been used for like 12-15 years now?

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Steam's highest-rated game is now less than a dollar in the Spring Sale

Jack writes: "Yet again browsing the latest offers in the Steam Spring Sale has led us to track down the very best. In terms of price to quality, we don’t think that it gets much better than this. Portal 2 is now less than a dollar, and if you haven’t got it already, now is the time to pick it up."

TheEroica57d ago

Portal deserves to be one of steams highest rated games... It's almost tetris levels of perfect game design.

TheEnigma31357d ago

It's a great game, but highly overrated. But for $1, it's an amazon deal.

Friendlygamer57d ago

Valve should bring their games to ps5

Kados56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

Gotta love Steam. Just got Portal 2 for .97 cents CAD. Should have been $1.29, selected the bundle with Portal 1 and 2, which gets a 25% discount, already have Portal 1, so it removes the cost of that, and still applies the full 25% bundle discount to Portal 2. 90% + 25% discount.

Friendlygamer55d ago

That's sweet, I've been thinking about building a modest pc to play some oldies