When The Telegraph sits down for a rare audience with iconic game developer Hideo Kojima in a private meeting room off the E3 show floor his body is with us in downtown Los Angeles but his mind is very much up the road in Hollywood. The night before he premiered the fourth trailer for his latest opus Death Stranding at Sony Playstation’s press conference. Much like the first three it proved both utterly compelling and completely baffling. Opaque cutscenes featuring foetuses in jars and invisible monsters who left handprints in the mud punctuated long-awaited first glimpses of gameplay almost completely comprised of scenes of The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus’ courier character trudging forlornly... Register or log in to view this and other Technology Intelligence articles. It's free and easy to do. Access brilliant stories, features and analysis Sign up to our exclusive Technology Intelligence daily newsletter Become part of our ambitious Tech networking … [Read more...] about ‘I’m 55 and could die tomorrow’: Why Hideo Kojima is making Death Stranding like it is his last game
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Doom turned in to PLAYABLE Magic Eye poster – but can you see it?
USING a combination of freely available tools and code, some madman has created a playable Magic Eye poster out of the original Doom video game. Each frame of the game is generated as a random-dot autostereogram, the type of popularised in the 90s by Magic Eye books and posters. Created by a developer who goes by the name of blogum and uploaded to itch.io, OMDO features the first three maps of iD software's 1993 classic DOOM. As with all autostereograms they initially appear like static, or a random collection of coloured dots. However, if you use the correct viewing technique a 3D image will appear in place of the dots as things line up for you. This involves either focusing your eyes some distance in front of the image you're trying to view -- going cross-eyed, effectively -- or some distance behind it. MOST READ In GAMINGPLAY SAFE Gaming addicts can get NHS help from TODAY – do you have these symptoms? FIGHTING ALL OVER THE WORLD Fortnite on Android coming this summer, with … [Read more...] about Doom turned in to PLAYABLE Magic Eye poster – but can you see it?
Destiny 2: Forsaken is making Bungie uncomfortable – and getting us excited
FOUR years after the launch of Destiny, the much-hyped scifi shooter from the studio that gave the world Halo, it looks like fans may finally be about to get their hands on a version of the game worthy of the initial hype. This latest reinvention of the game comes as the third expansion to the second game in the series, with High Moon studios on board to help out. It's got a darker tone to it, radical changes to some core gameplay systems and a new competitive mode that is a whole lot of fun. One one level Forsaken is giving the players what they want--but a certain amount of the changes are the opposite. It's a decision to throw some conventional conservative wisdom out the window, try some new stuff they think is cool, and to hell with anyone else. Bungie is "opening up the sandbox and the gameplay in ways we're uncomfortable with," according to design lead Lars Bakken. His reaction suggests there's almost an expectation that major changes will be needed post-launch to this once … [Read more...] about Destiny 2: Forsaken is making Bungie uncomfortable – and getting us excited
From Cyberpunk 2077 to giant Fortnite booths: The highlights of E3 2018
One of E3’s longest-standing traditions involves media outlets giving out awards to publishers to recognise their games of the show - usually in the form of plaques that are then proudly displayed on the walls of those games’ showfloor booths. Telegraph Gaming’s Tom Hoggins and Dan Silver were a little too busy and, if we’re honest, not quite prepared enough to do that this year, so they’ve opted to giving out imaginary awards instead... Best conference Dan: For me there’s only actually two contenders: Ubisoft and Microsoft. I want to give it to Ubisoft because they had a panda leading a marching band and Microsoft only had a ton of great games, a plan to reinvent their business by creating five... Register or log in to view this and other Technology Intelligence articles. It's free and easy to do. Access brilliant stories, features and analysis Sign up to our exclusive Technology Intelligence daily newsletter Become part of our ambitious Tech … [Read more...] about From Cyberpunk 2077 to giant Fortnite booths: The highlights of E3 2018
“I’m 55 and could die tomorrow”: Why Hideo Kojima is making Death Stranding like its his last game
When The Telegraph sits down for a rare audience with iconic game developer Hideo Kojima in a private meeting room off the E3 show floor his body is with us in downtown Los Angeles but his mind is very much up the road in Hollywood. The night before he premiered the fourth trailer for his latest opus Death Stranding at Sony Playstation’s press conference. Much like the first three it proved both utterly compelling and completely baffling. Opaque cutscenes featuring foetuses in jars and invisible monsters who left handprints in the mud punctuated long-awaited first glimpses of gameplay almost completely comprised of scenes of The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus’ courier character trudging forlornly... Register or log in to view this and other Technology Intelligence articles. It's free and easy to do. Access brilliant stories, features and analysis Sign up to our exclusive Technology Intelligence daily newsletter Become part of our ambitious Tech networking … [Read more...] about “I’m 55 and could die tomorrow”: Why Hideo Kojima is making Death Stranding like its his last game