And the action figure has hair!
Some gamers may not be happy about the new direction that Max Payne seems to be taking, but we can all agree that the new special edition as announced today by Rockstar Games is pretty sweet.
An ex-Rockstar employee is claiming to know all about the new game.
Someone going by the Twitter handle TorontoJack233 claims to be an ex-employee of Rockstar and posted this picture of what he claims to be the overview map for Grand Theft Auto V. The game takes place in the fictionalized version of Los Angeles called Los Santos and the map shows as such.
Players will return to a Los Angeles-like setting, as featured in San Andreas.
Sure, we don't know anything else about the game, but that won't stop us from getting excited.
We all knew it was coming, but it’s still hard not to get excited about the prospect of another Grand Theft Auto game. Rockstar has officially announced via their website that Grand Theft Auto V is indeed on its way and that we can expect a trailer on November 2, 2011.
The previously announced PC version of the game is now also coming to consoles.
Previously, Rockstar Games announced a PC port of L.A. Noire that also included all of the downloadable content. Now that collection is coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on March, 2012.
Phone ports and a limited edition action figure.
No one can deny Grand Theft Auto III's place in history. It created the open world genre as we know it and pissed off hundreds of thousands of parents and senators. The previous entries in the series had a similar idea but it was fully realized in a 3D world with this game. Well, believe it or not, the third entry in the series is turning 10 this month.
Rockstar's crime drama will also come with all the previously released DLC.
Rockstar announced today that L.A. Noire will be released for the PC via retail, Steam, and OnLive on November 8, 2011 in the United States. A European release will follow three days later on November 11, 2011. Titled L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition, this PC release will include the downloadable content previously released for the console versions, but it will only be accessible after redeeming an included voucher code. This includes the "Nicholson Electroplating", "Reefer Madness", "The Consul's Car", "The Naked City", and "A Slip of the Tongue" cases.
Traversing the uncanny valley
It was in the late 1970s that Masahiro Mori first observed what was later termed the uncanny valley. Through his work in robotics he noted that the human emotional response to his machinations would become more positive as they became more human in appearance and mannerism. This general upward trend in positive emotional response would continue until the robot achieved a level of near human realism, at which point the human reaction would drop off to the point of revulsion. The human reaction would remain in this uncanny valley and would only rise again once there was no discernable difference between the robot and a living, breathing human being.
After a failed attempt at podcasting last night, Nick and Chessa take a mulligan and create a new version of the latest issue of PixlTalk.
Last night's podcast recording was doomed before it even began. After an hour and a half of complete and utter chaos, we were left with an unsalvageable mess that had to be scrapped as the official 33rd episode of PixlTalk. Instead, Nick and Chessa take a calm, rested, and sober approach for a much more organized and discussion-oriented recording.
