Biggest gaming industry secret of the year could be revealed at E3 next week.

[redsamurai]

HL movie directed by Uwe Boll, starring the Rock as Gordon Freeman?

not that freeman should look like a complete pussy...but I don't think there's too many theoretical physicists running around with 21 inch arms and an uncanny ability to raise one eyebrow. Here's to hoping a HL movie stays at least somewhat true to the original valve concept....lolz. I'm usually the one saying that they're not getting big enough dudes to play some of these roles....but in this case someone normal is more apt for the role. The rock could play the black mesa security chief though.....that guy does have a big pretty big part in the story.

 

[Captain FT]

HL movie directed by Uwe Boll, starring the Rock as Gordon Freeman?

And speaking of Uwe Boll - My most anticipated movie in developement, Warcraft, Boll got shot down.

"Director Uwe Boll contacted Blizzard about directing the film, but Blizzard refused. As quoted by MTV news Uwe Boll stated: "I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."

Sam Rami will do a killer job. I had no idea he was the executive producer on 13 episodes of Spartacus Blood and Sand, no wonder I loved that so much.

 

[chewyxrage]

Fuck Yes! Awesome.

Captain FT, regarding Duke Nukem, I still use this mousepad, since Junior High when I bought the game:

http://st17.yahoo.com/lib/3drealms/dukepadbig.jpg



Sure, it's had tons of beer and resin spilt on it. I just throw it in the wash and it comes back brand new

 

[Captain FT]

Fuck Yes! Awesome.

Captain FT, regarding Duke Nukem, I still use this mousepad, since Junior High when I bought the game:

http://st17.yahoo.com/lib/3drealms/dukepadbig.jpg



Sure, it's had tons of beer and resin spilt on it. I just throw it in the wash and it comes back brand new

Haha, I remember that mouse pad. I had that too!

 

[Captain FT]

Nah that won't take off until the U.S. updates its interwebs infrastructure. At this point cloud computing would be little more than another niche market.

World of Warcraft shown streaming on iPad - PC News at GameSpot



Developer Dave Perry shows wildly popular MMORPG running on Apple's popular new portable via Gaikai; non-Flash version reportedly had to be built from scratch.

Since being introduced on April 3, Apple's iPad has already sold 1 million units, with the new 3G version reportedly selling out within hours of launching last Friday. Game companies have been quick to jump on the touch-screen tablet's bandwagon, with publishers like Electronic Arts releasing iPad-optimized versions of iPod titles, such as Need for Speed: Shift.

Also on board is Gaikai, the browser-based game-streaming service cofounded by veteran developer Dave Perry. This morning on his personal Web site, Perry showed off how his server-based computing service could use Apple's tablet to stream World of Warcraft, the planet's most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Specifically, the game displayed was the second WOW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

Perry joked, "Soon I'll be able to play WOW with my Cornflakes!"

Much like OnLive, which launches next month, Gaikai is taking the cloud computing model and applying it to gaming. The company will host various games on its servers and then let subscribers stream them onto their PCs or various other devices, such as the iPad. Graphics processing is handled by Gaikai's servers, meaning high-resolution games can be played on devices with significantly lower-grade technology.

If Gaikai is approved for use with the iPad, WOW junkies will have another way to get their fix on the road.

Perry's promotion of WOW on the iPad does raise some interesting questions, though. Gakai's Web site touts its Streaming Worlds technology as being near-universal thanks to the fact it is based on Adobe's Flash player. The iPad conspicuously does not support Flash, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs vehemently criticizing the application in an open letter last Thursday.

Requests for clarification on how Gaikai is running on the iPad had not been answered as of press time. However, Perry told UK site Digital Foundry that a special version of Gaikai had to be made from scratch to work with the iPad. He said the game was running at a "very crisp" 1024x768 resolution.

"All iPad inputs are streamed through a translation system to the server, so we can remap anything to anything in real time," Perry told Digital Foundry. "We hide a virtual keyboard off to the side, so you can type as well (like to login). It's just a teaser as the iPad just arrived. Once they are done with the video optimization, we will show it off."