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Some of you might already know it, Blizzard has announced Starcraft 2 officially in Seol. So that was the secret game they where working on so hard. Not that everyone and their mother guessed it.
This is great news for lots of fans, i can remember how i went in a big shopping center in germany some years ago, to get my copy of the original Starcraft. A big shiny protoss was printed on the front cover. I finished the game as fast as i could for shure, and even got on my sisters nerves, to play some multiplayer games with me. It also came with the first RTS ingame editor i ever used, to make custom maps for a game.

Here in the YouTube Gameplay Video Number 4, you can see the used graphics engine. Starcraft has a big entertaining value in Korea. There are even television stations showing starcraft games(and soon Starcraft II probably). The best players are treatet like stars, you can only compare this to football or basketball here. Blizzard therefore said, that they use old but good looking graphics in the game, to make it run on older hardware and reach a broader audience of cause. They learned this lesson from WoW. That this does not look any old at all can be seen in the video. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest Version of the free 3D modelling tool Blender has been released in version 2.44! The program is the biggest one available for free with the richest feature set. It even comes with .mdl export for 3DGS via plugin. You can grab it here!

The Release Notes consist of many new things in different areas such as:

-Subsurface Scattering (You can render surfaces wich dont reflext but consume light and scatter it such as skin, soap or milk.)
-Physics Engine
-New Phyton Scripts
-New Sculpt and Multires Functionality
-Many new smaller bugfixes and features
-Improvements in character animation

If you want to see what you can do with blender besides making 3d models for games, have a look at this short but sweet animation film.