A note about wrinkled skin: The wrinkles are created using animated normal maps, driven by the positions of the internal markers. It's a fast and impressive technique that took a skilled artist much time to accomplish, but it is not directly related to the motion capture itself. :)

That's not how this works, man.

Well, Mr. Suzuki, if you can get the project funded I'd move mountains to go work for you.

Why is her back broken?

How much lag will this incur? PS1/PS2 games were never designed for the 100ms delay HDTVs, much less internet streaming video.

I'm an animator to some degree, and I can say you'll see inbetweens like these (literally, frames in between key frames and breakdowns) in all sorts of animated films, even CG. Most of them are intentional. In Looney Tunes, for instance, they're used to great effect to give a certain unseen feeling to an arc of…

Yeah actually, I'm wrong. My memory sucks. ARM7 is 32-bit. I should go to bed.

Well, no. The GBA has a 16-bit ARM7 alongside a separate 8-bit Z80. The two can't be added together, but I'm the public would believe them if they had said so.

There's a plain and simple fact that story writing and presentation for games has evolved while Final Fantasy has not. I've spent the last four years studying how to make video games for a living. In doing so, I realize that Japan languishes in character development, emotional expression, and story structure even…

It's similar enough that the cheat apps came out the same day. :)

Please keep your bias to yourself. In the same week you run stories about the difference between violence and aggression, you fail to realize the difference between a target shooting game and, say, No Russian.

They will be forced to deal with this sometime. It's only a matter of time before a PewDiePie or Minute Physics gets permabanned.

This sounds like a fundamental flaw in advertising on the part of ad providers. You have to be able to identify individual users, perhaps not by name, in order to know "hey, these 900 clicks all came from the same computer/google account. If websites can track unique visitors, adsense is WAY behind.

Sir, when I finish these finals I am turning your reply into a video game.

I don't see the big deal. Out of necessity, we've WLAN'd the entire house. If you looked at our floor plan and where the FiOS drop is located, you'd understand my residence to be the absolute worst-case scenario for good WiFi. But with a good router, the one extra hop really doesn't mean anything. Gaming is fluid,…

I've attempted to play Final Fantasy X THREE TIMES NOW, each time turned off by the horrific acting and snail's pace. Should there be any reason at all for me to try it again?

These look like a college kid made his first normal map and ratcheted it up to 200%. There's no point in exclusive fancy effects if they're not adherent to the art style. Look at the bottom image: The layer that is supposed to be "worn off paint" is an extremely low-res map, causing the clean texture underneath to…

Still shooting themselves in the foot, I see.

Several reasons. In short, the controller. Beautiful screen? Check! Having to move my ENTIRE F***ING HAND if I want to use the face buttons or the right thumb stick? No, thank you. Keep in mind this is even AFTER Nintendo realized that thumbs move in arcs. It's the same reason I hate the 3DS. Can't play the…

Er, at least they're trying to. Their kickstarter is a little short. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1857884659/distance-a-next-generation-arcade-racer