Ex-Valve employee, formerly of Team Fortress 2, also working on the Oculus Rift SDK.
Valve's former VR specialist has been snapped up by the company behind the VR headset Oculus Rift.
Tom Forsyth worked on Team Fortress 2's VR support with Joe Ludwig and Michael Abrash. At Oculus VR he'll be working on the Oculus Rift SDK, alongside a few "top-secret" R&D projects.
#147;The Rift is a great bit of kit and combines a bunch of different technology together in a very clever package," said Forsythe.
"It was amazing working with it on Team Fortress 2 and seeing the extra immersion people felt inside a game they already knew so well. I#147;m really looking forward to helping other developers work with this tech as we go towards a consumer version.#147;
Oculus VR of robotics expert Steve LaValle, who previously worked as a researcher at the University of Illinois. "Steve#147;s leading research and development on some of the toughest VR challenges including sensor fusion, magnetic drift correction, and kinematic modeling," said Oculus VR.
Development kits for the Oculus Rift are still being sent out to backers of the , though huge demand for the device has caused strain for the fledgling company. "All Rift development kits from Kickstarter are marked as #147;Processing#147; or #147;Shipped#147; in our system," says Oculus VR.
A consumer version of the VR headset is in the works.
The Mittani writes:
'It has been three days since spies from Grief University set the DUST community on fire with their sabotage of a DUST Uni Planetary Conquest match. They boldly proclaimed their actions on the DUST forums, triggering a lively response from players that ranged from praise to recommendations to commit suicide. They followed up with another attack on R.I.f.t. later that evening, prompting the victims to create their own thread of discussion with the title "[HUMBLED] Infiltrated by spies in PC". More threads popped up, speculating as to the identity of Grief University's members and complaining that corporations could no longer accept new members without care or regard to their backgrounds. But what's most startling is a newly-made and now-locked thread entitled "Calling for the Removal of Jenza Aranda and Iron Wolf Saber from CPM0".'
Newspaper's EVP of Digital Products and Services Denise Warren appointed to leadership role at Battlefield publisher, is only woman on company's board of directors.
Electronic Arts has appointed The New York Times executive Denise Warren to the Battlefield and FIFA publisher's board of directors, the company has announced. Warren will also sit on EA's Audit Committee.
She is the only female member of .
Warren is executive vice president of the Digital Products and Services Group at The New York Times, where she oversees operations for digital content and subscriptions. Before holding that position, Warren worked as general manager and chief advertising officer at The New York Times.
In a statement, Warren said she is already impressed with what EA has achieved thus far and plans to help the company broaden its audience through delivering experiences on new platforms.
"EA is transforming its business by extending the consumer relationship with digitally delivered high-quality products and services," Warren said. "I'm impressed with the management of the company and look forward to helping them extend their products to a broader audience on new platforms including mobile and tablets."
Warren will receive an annual retainer for her role on the EA board of directors of $50,000 and an additional 10,000 per year for her work on the Audit Committee. She will also receive 2,5000 restricted stock units.
Separately, EA announced that director Gregory Maffei will not seek re-election to the board at the annual stockholders meeting this summer. He had served ten years on the EA board, but is resigning due to obligations at Liberty Media, where he is president and CEO.
"Denise Warren brings an enormous amount of digital media experience to EA's Board of Directors," said interim EA CEO Larry Probst in a statement. "We look forward to the leadership and perspective that she will provide to our company. I would also like to thank Greg Maffei for his many years of dedicated service to our Board. His guidance, involvement and expertise have been invaluable."
Warren holds a B.S. and management degree from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in communications and media management from Fordham University. She lives in Long Island.
Newspaper's EVP of Digital Products and Services Denise Warren appointed to leadership role at Battlefield publisher, is only woman on company's board of directors.
Electronic Arts has appointed The New York Times executive Denise Warren to the Battlefield and FIFA publisher's board of directors, the company has announced. Warren will also sit on EA's Audit Committee.
She is the only female member of .
Warren is executive vice president of the Digital Products and Services Group at The New York Times, where she oversees operations for digital content and subscriptions. Before holding that position, Warren worked as general manager and chief advertising officer at The New York Times.
In a statement, Warren said she is already impressed with what EA has achieved thus far and plans to help the company broaden its audience through delivering experiences on new platforms.
"EA is transforming its business by extending the consumer relationship with digitally delivered high-quality products and services," Warren said. "I'm impressed with the management of the company and look forward to helping them extend their products to a broader audience on new platforms including mobile and tablets."
Warren will receive an annual retainer for her role on the EA board of directors of $50,000 and an additional 10,000 per year for her work on the Audit Committee. She will also receive 2,5000 restricted stock units.
Separately, EA announced that director Gregory Maffei will not seek re-election to the board at the annual stockholders meeting this summer. He had served ten years on the EA board, but is resigning due to obligations at Liberty Media, where he is president and CEO.
"Denise Warren brings an enormous amount of digital media experience to EA's Board of Directors," said interim EA CEO Larry Probst in a statement. "We look forward to the leadership and perspective that she will provide to our company. I would also like to thank Greg Maffei for his many years of dedicated service to our Board. His guidance, involvement and expertise have been invaluable."
Warren holds a B.S. and management degree from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in communications and media management from Fordham University. She lives in Long Island.
New large-scale research says that piracy is "extraordinarily prevalent" in the games industry, but accuses "potentially biased" trade organisations of potentially overestimating the problem.
A large-scale, open-method academic investigation into the prevalence of video game piracy has said that the number of illegal downloads is not as high as reported by industry bodies.
was conducted by Anders Drachen from the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Kevin Bauer Cheriton from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and Robert W. D. Veitch from Copenhagen Business School's Department of Informatics. A total of 173 games on BitTorrent were analysed over three months from 2010 to 2011.
The games were illegally downloaded by 12.6 million people over the 90-day investigation.
The most popular genre was RPG, with 18.9 percent of the illegal downloads. Other popular genres included action-adventure (15.9 percent), third-person shooters (12.7 percent), and racing (9.3 percent).
The study also pointed at a correlation between the highest-rated games on Metacritic contributing to more piracy.
The new investigation says it clashes with the statements made by trade bodies such as the Entertainment Software Association. The new research paper also claims that previous studies into piracy are "potentially biased, partially due to the interest of the industry to reduce piracy and thus potentially overestimate the problem."
"There is very little objective information available about [piracy's] magnitude or its distribution across game titles and game genres," says the research.
"First and foremost, P2P game piracy is extraordinarily prevalent and geographically distributed," concluded Drachen in a press release () accompanying the research. "However, the numbers in our investigation suggest that previously reported magnitudes in game piracy are too high. It also appears that some common myths are wrong, eg that it is only shooters that get pirated, as we see a lot of activity for children's and family games on BitTorrent for the period we investigated."
The 10 most popular pirated games across the research's 90-day period were, from most to least pirated: Fallout: New Vegas, Darksiders, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, NBA 2K11, Tron Evolution, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Starcraft 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Two Worlds II, and The Sims 3: Late Night.
Deus Ex designer and Blizzard executive spearheading intensive 12-month course that will only accept 20 students.
Deus Ex designer Warren Spector and Blizzard president Paul Sams will head up a new postgraduate game development course at the University of Texas in Austin, the school announced today (via ).
The new Denius-Sams Gaming Academy post-baccalaureate certification program will begin during the fall 2014 semester and is designed for "top candidates looking for leadership training the field of video game production."
The University of Texas college of communication, college of fine arts, and department of computer science are working together to launch the program. According to Spector, the course will be "a little different" than the typical game-focused program.
He described the course, which will only accept 20 students, as a "much shorter, 12-month very intense program. It's kind of like the Navy S.E.A.L.s. It's going to be very competitive."
What will differentiate the program from other, similar courses is that it will "focus explicitly on that bigger, creative leadership. Both the management; the production side. And the game direction/creative leadership side. That's a space that isn't being served by a lot of the other development programs."
For more on the course, check out the video below.
Spector found himself out of a job when .
He made headlines recently by for saying the world did not need a new "generically dark, monochromatic, FPS, kill-the-Nazi-giant-robot game."
NRM: "Remember when playing Tetris helped adults with amblyopia (aka lazy eye)? Well now Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and the University of Nottingham have teamed up to prove that once again, computer games are the answer. Developing original games based on popular PS3 titles, SCEE is creating content for the "I-BiT" system, which will help children overcome their condition in the most fun way possible."
