Here we are, the next big thing for a lot of gamers after E3, the big comic con. While new comic book stuff are the main point of event, for many people specially movie fans (Like myself) its the definit place to see some of the highly anticipated movies of 2008 in action. Sadly Fox chose not to attend this year's event (Much like Nintendo) but that doesn't mean we're left without footage, trailer, announcements and more...
First stop is the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The first official teaser trailer is shown in theaters with The Simpsons movie; Really short but so sweet:
http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=141&item=0
According to SuperHeroHype "Warner Bros. Pictures is indeed planning on presenting Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight at Wizard World Chicago, taking place August 9-12. There's been some rumors that the studio had pulled out of the event, but that's not true." "Will anything else happen for the movie at the panel or during the Con? We're not sure. Stay tuned."
For now, check out the all new viral site for The Dark Knight: http://www.whysoserious.com/
I loved the original Batman with the great Jack Nichelson as Joker but Batman Begins is among my all time faves and since the new film its based on the superb Dark Knight comics and Chris Nolan and rest of BB team are back for The Dark Knight movie, I'm much more excited than usual. Add the great new cast members including incredible talents such as Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal & Eric Roberts while bringing the stars of the original, from Christian Bale & Michael Caine to Gary Oldman & Morgan Freeman.
A while back I heard that Pandemic is working on the Dark Knight game which was the secret DK project but with so much games that they're developing (Mercenaries 2, Saboteur and Destroy All Humans 3... ) I kinda doubt that unless they make another quick and dirty movie-game that would be such a shame for this film.
In an old interview on N4G, I read, one great game developer say that his biggest dream project was to make a true open-ended, sandbox Batman game with dark Gothom City and all of the famous Batman universe characters and dark themes. I hope they make this one day but Dark Knight the game doesnt seem to be that one unless they announce it now (Not 3 months before the movie comes out) and say they've been working for at least 6 months).
The next big thing for me from Comic Con 07 is Iron Man movie and while the video-game adaptation by SEGA shown at E3 was rather terrible and bashed by sites such as 1UP, the film seems to be shaping up real good. It also doesn't hurt that two of my favortie actors (Robert Downey Jr. & Terrence Howard) star as the good and evil heroes of the film along with lovely Gwyneth Paltrow and the big Jeff Bridges.
Check out the description of trailer shown at CC:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6069
No news on Hellboy the game or Hellboy: The Golden Army movie yet. Little news on Incredible Hulk movie but no game and casting info from Watchmen. Now, where is my Preacher TV series!? Also, the Beowulf movie looks HOT! I just hope they leave the PG-13 and go for R or at least release an unrated version on DVD. Check out the trailer: http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=118&item=0
I wonder if the games like InFamous and DarkSiders will show up since they're both really comic-bookish, super hero stuff. Loved them both at E3 specially since they were among the few new IP announcements of the show and cant wait to see more of them.
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Proof of concept for a promising new technology.
I did note that the Xbox frame-gen implementation is not perfect. There appear to be intermediate freezing issues when there's a camera cut during cinematics, but while a bit annoying, it does not intrude on gameplay (a quick look at PS5 doesn't see this issue manifest)
Xbox Can’t catch a break recently
"I did note that the Xbox frame-gen implementation is not perfect."
Grasping at straws I see.
In the video John literally says that FSR 3´s implementation on Xbox Series X is far better than the PC version on release, and they are very impressed with the results. Especially considering that they didn´t even expect such performance to be possible achieved from 30fps. Not even AMD itself recommends 30fps for frame generation.
And... perfect? It´s not perfect even on PC to this day, so I´m no sure what you mean by that.
Maybe it´s perfect on PS5, I don´t know. It would be nice if you post the source of the analysis video of the PS5 version you saw to back up your claims.
"Xbox Can’t catch a break recently"
Don´t worry about the Xbox. There´ll be PLENTY of upcoming first party games to take advantage of FSR 3 in the coming months and years.
Indiana Jones, Avowed, Fable, Shattered Space (Starfield), Gears of War 6, Perfect Dark, State of Decay 3 and many many more.
Also, I´m expecting a FSR 3 update for Hellblade II rather sooner than later.
Great times ahead.
"It would be nice if you post the source of the analysis video of the PS5 version you saw to back up your claims.'
no I just quoted from the very article we are commenting on, these were digital foundry's words, saying xbox isn't perfect, but on the ps5 version, it doesn't see the issue manifest.
Console warring over a framerate pause during non-interactive content in a first-of-its-kind implementation in a game no one gave a crap about when it released 9-10 months ago.
Gotta love N4G.
Its promising tech and what's even more funny is that it was DF that was saying it wouldn't work. If fact they were pretty emphatic about it. What's stupid about their claims is that consoles are just specialized PCs. Now imagine if they combine this with a different upscaler like TSR or the upcoming PSSR.
DF act like they know as much as the engineers that work on this software but they are not even close to as knowledgeable they only have tools that give them numbers and then they act like they are experts.
I'd think there's a chance PSSR and frame-gen could yield better upgrade performance for PS5 Pro than PS4 Pro did if this is how well it's going to be working on consoles. I'm curious about input latency though.
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
"The Tokyo-based (Japan) indie games publisher Alliance Arts and indie games developer WSS playground, are today very happy and excitted to announce that their Texas Hold’em adventure RPG "All in Abyss: Judge the Fake", is coming to PC via Steam in 2024." - Jonas Ek,TGG.
couldn't thet find a better actor than robert downey jr. for iron man!
yeah