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SIGGRAPH 2012 wrap-up
Considering that SIGGRAPH focuses on visual content creation and display, there was no shortage of interesting elements to gawk at on the show floor. From motion capture demos to 3D objects printed for Hollywood productions, there was plenty of entertainment at the Los Angeles Convention Center this year. Major product introductions included ARM's Mali-T604 GPU and a handful of high-end graphics cards from AMD, but the highlight of the show was the Emerging Technologies wing, which played host to a variety of concept demonstrations, gathering top researchers from institutions like the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and MIT. The exhibition has come to a close for the year, but you can catch up with the show floor action in the gallery below, then click on past the break for links to all of our hands-on coverage, direct from LA.%Gallery-162185%
We're live from SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles!
Most of us experience the Los Angeles Convention Center during one of its most chaotic weeks of the year, when tens of thousands of gaming industry manufacturers, video game designers and consumers descend upon downtown LA for the annual E3 expo, booth-babe radar tweaked to 11. There's a hint of graphics prowess amid the halls this week, too, albeit on a vastly smaller scale, and with a heavy heap of civility. SIGGRAPH is a trade event through and through, with attendees demonstrating their latest tech, taking in a handful of seminars or hunting for networking opportunities, in search of employment and partnerships. It's often also a venue for product launches, which is what's brought us out, along with the usual bounty of kooky creations that serve to entertain and lighten the mood. As always, we'll be bringing you a little bit of everything over the next few days, letting you sample the best of SIGGRAPH from the comfort of your own device -- head over to our SIGGRAPH 2012 tag to follow along.
Panzer Tactics DS video thrills with exposition
Behold above the wonderous exposition found in the Panzer Tactics DS video. Actually, maybe it is good to refresh people every now and then from square one and treat potential customers like mouth-breathing tools. *clearing throat* You are now reading Joystiq, a video game blog. Here we write about video games. We will now talk about Panzer Tactics DS for the Nintendo DS handheld system. It is a video game playback device you hold in your hand.There are Informative lines in the above video like: "You can play Panzer Tactics with the buttons or the stylus, most people use both," and "to make things really exciting, there are also units with special abilities." *back to normal voice* Although we're perfectly fine with the concept of what Panzer's marketing department was trying to do with the video, there really is no need to explain a strategy game from square one. Show us what's different, most DS owners into that genre will have hopefully played Advance Wars: Dual Strike and understand the basics. If this video was designed to get "casuals" interested, somehow a WWII turn-based strategy game doesn't sound like their cup of tea.
