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This videogame shows the beauty of disregarding photorealism
The only thing better than realism is surrealism.
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Not a lot is known about the haunting, mysterious, and handsomely titled For Each Our Roads of Winter, but we’ve seen enough for our jaws to hang open and a little spittle to form in the pockets of our lips. It is without question a gorgeous and vividly photographic first-person adventure game. That
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This is not my face. I am at least as handsome, but far less demented-looking than that. As for this guy, he’s just some highly creepy head model rendered in filmic tonemapping, a graphic technique we see in games like the Uncharted series, which explaining could get complicated. What you really nee
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The problem with sports games and realism
A call to reel it in, a little.
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How the small team behind The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter outdid Crysis in photorealism
The amazing thing about The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter is how nature looks more gorgeous in it than in whatever gorgeous game you have in mind: Far Cry 3, Crysis, Skyrim, Battlefield. So you might be surprised to learn that it was made by a small and unknown independent team. How’d they do it? Well,
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The Desert of the Real
Games look more lifelike than ever, but they rarely feel like it. Why copying nature isn’t enough.
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Winning Hearts and Minds
A writer with family in Fallujah reckons with a video game set in the city where his cousin was shot and asks whether realism in games is even welcome anymore.