From what it seems, Activision Blizzard is committed to proceed with a controversial business initiative, which is already causing much debate. The company's strong man, Bobby Kotick, speaking this week at a conference and revealed that Activision-Blizzard is seriously considering to sell the cinematics for games as movies!
According to Kotick, games like StarCraft II have so beautiful cinematics, which with proper treatment can make up a full movie, ready for sale in commerce. The Kotick went a step further and said that the price of such a film could be from 20-30 dollars, which is much cheaper than the game, but more expensive than a typical movie on DVD or Blu-ray.
Although not given a clear schedule, Kotick said the company would release such a product over the next five years, or jointly with others or alone.
At a time when almost all call for companies to shed the cost of the games move to attract more consumers, the commercialization of the cutscenes does not sound very appealing. Of course, it is still early to judge the whole idea of Activision-Blizzard if implemented eventually.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
The ultimate PC for gamers
Origin PC announced a new computer, which is in a class of its own, and largely escapes the bounds of conventional PC. The savage computer called Big O, includes technical features awe-inspiring. But its great advantage is neither the processor nor the memory nor the graphics card.
Besides the "usual" hardware, the Big O hiding on the outside of a full Xbox 360 Slim (!), Which has a water cooling. Thus, the user can play the Halo 3 one time and another StarCraft II through the same machine. The pride of Origin PC is available in two configurations, which have differences in hardware.
The large model costs $ 17,000 and includes two processors Xeon X5680 yperchronismenous at 4.3GHz, four GeForce GTX 480, 12GB memory, two feeders, each with attributes 1kW, solid-state drive 200GB and two hard drives with a capacity of 2TB each.
The small (so to speak) model has a value of $ 7,669 and replaces the two Xeon processors with a humble Core i7 930.
Besides the "usual" hardware, the Big O hiding on the outside of a full Xbox 360 Slim (!), Which has a water cooling. Thus, the user can play the Halo 3 one time and another StarCraft II through the same machine. The pride of Origin PC is available in two configurations, which have differences in hardware.
The large model costs $ 17,000 and includes two processors Xeon X5680 yperchronismenous at 4.3GHz, four GeForce GTX 480, 12GB memory, two feeders, each with attributes 1kW, solid-state drive 200GB and two hard drives with a capacity of 2TB each.
The small (so to speak) model has a value of $ 7,669 and replaces the two Xeon processors with a humble Core i7 930.
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Core i7 930,
GeForce GTX,
Halo 3,
StarCraft II,
Xeon
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