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A Visual Comparison of Elder Scrolls: Skyrim PC Graphics Settings

A Visual Comparison of Elder Scrolls: Skyrim PC Graphics Settings

If you’re interested in the PC version of Skyrim, Gameranx has provided a visual comparison of the different graphics settings available. Currently, the graphics can be set to Low, Medium, High and Ultra. Continue reading

Beautiful Moon Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Beautiful Moon Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA’s lunar spacecraft has sent back over 192 Terabytes of data — including some gorgeous new photos of the moon’s terrain. Continue reading

Shepard Fairey For Saks Fifth Avenue

Iconic OBEY designer Shepard Fairey has partnered with house of fashion Saks Fifth Avenue to create a series of stylish shopping bags. Each bag says “WANT IT!” in classic Fairey form. Big block letters, Soviet-era graphics; everything you’d expect from the guy who told you that Andrea the Giant had a posse. Some would call Shepard a sellout for doing this kind of thing but really, it just enhances creativity and promotes his art. Nothing wrong in that! Link

Boxing Cartoon Made On A Game Boy

The Game Boy might appear like a useless piece of hardware with no good games for it, but check out what the folks of Sidabitball.com managed to do using their Bricovision technology. By synchronizing animations with a Game Boy in real time with the help from a hardware interface and some software, the team put together this impressive boxing video made up of animations and sound from a Game Boy. It just goes to show that even a portable device... Continue reading

Majoring In Game Design Will Leave You In The Dark

So, you want to work in the game industry. You want to live, breathe, think, screw and shit video games for the rest of your life. Unless you want to be a master of the custodial arts, game design is the last thing you’ll want to major in. As Frank Caron of Ars Technica points out, the game industry is a very brutal and competitive field. He offers some words of wisdom for those actively pursuing their dreams by suggesting... Continue reading

Computer Graphics That Look More Real Than My Wife’s Tits

If you thought that you looked real when staring at yourself in a mirror, think again. Compared to the photo-realistic computer animation of Emily, you’re a closer to a plastic doll than real flesh and bone. Using new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured, Image Metrics have created the first ever animation to overcome the longtime obstacle known as “uncanny valley”. This is the perception that animation looks less realistic as... Continue reading

Divine Bovine

Hubba hubba! Take a look at this assortment of sexy and seductive animals that are worth drooling over. Warning, these pictures are not safe for work and will surely give you a hard on. That is, if the other artsy animals I’ve posted haven’t already done that. No idea who made them, but I know where they came from and where they’re going. Out of the wild, into your spank bank. Hit the jump to see more mouth-watering ladies!

NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX Leaked! Extreme Graphics For The Extreme Gamer

Aye, papi! When we broke the news last November that NVIDIA was gearing up for release of their GeForce 9 series in Q1 of ’08, we were unaware that the series would include TWO new product releases. Rumor has it that NVIDIA will be dropping word of their two new 9xxx series cards soon; the top-notch GeForce 9800GX2 on 18th March and their second best 9800GTX on 25th March. So, what does NVIDIA have in store for the 9800GTX? The... Continue reading

Is PCI-E for laptops overboard? The Magma ExpressBox thinks not.

This is the Magma ExpressBox that lets all of your crazy gamers to have a PCI-E graphics card hook up to your laptop. If you are really seriouly excited right now, please stop and go buy a desktop. Gaming is nice, but hardcore gaming (HalfLife, FEAR, Oblivion…) needs more than a laptop. It just isn’t right! Those games deserve a real 5.1 sound system, a nice 20+ inch LCD, and other things that your notebook can’t (or shouldn’t) be delivering... Continue reading

New footage of flOw, pretty as ever

flOw, it’s that game that Sony promised for the launch of the PS3, that looked so amazing, and wound up getting pushed back to the end of February. Now, it’s not like anyone was too suprised by this (sadly), but if this game is pushed back again, they had better give away a free movie with it when it comes out. If you are like every other person out there, you probably said “Wow” when you first saw the graphics... Continue reading