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The Outerra seamless planet rendering engine will blow your mind
How would you like to play an MMO where realistically sized planets are rendered in real-time, starting from outer space and going all the way down to a blade of grass? Sounds impossible, right? It may not be, thanks to a Slovakian dev team that's putting together a 3-D engine dubbed Outerra. Gamasutra has an interview with the principals as well as a spectacular tech demo vid which shows off the engine's ability to accurately render the earth using GPS data. The piece notes that a third-party dev team is already using Outerra to recreate Tolkien's Middle-earth. Click past the cut for the demo. [Thanks Roger!]
PS3 on eBay pulls in $10,100
A PlayStation 3 pre-order up for auction on eBay ended just 45 minutes ago as of the writing of this post, fetching over ten thousand dollars. If this guy doesn't get his pre-order, and we have a feeling that's going to be happening a lot tomorrow, can the winning bidder get out of it? Yes, according to the notes on the auction, although you still have to pay for shipping (wtf?). His wife is getting in on the bling action as well, "my wife is first in line at our local Walmart and she is also garunteed a PS3 so I will have 2 of them at midight." We don't know anything about the winning bidder except he's apparently a Florida Gators fan. Let's hope he didn't type an accidental zero in there when bidding ... 10k for a PS3 is quite a stretch from the $600 asking price. We've emailed him for some answers, hopefully he hasn't had to hock his computer to pay for this baby.The guy who is reselling 100 PS3s is probably crapping his pants right now. Just keep the receipts for the Ferrari and the yacht in Bermuda. Impulse buys can be a real bitch.
