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CES 2008: Gaming Monitor

January 10, 2008 – 10:18 am

I came across this monitor and the concept is pretty sweet, but in practice how can you justify having this huge monitor on your desk just to play FPS games. From the look of this monitor it is pretty deep which won’t exactly be a great selling point, although it does give you that peripheral aspect of the game. I don’t think the curvature is enough to make it actually feel like your in the game, if you sit far enough away from this thing it will be almost the same as a widescreen TV. Looks pretty interesting, but I just don’t think this will catch on.

By Al Zamora | Posted in Loot Ninja | Also tagged , , , | Comments (4)

2K Games Answers the Widescreen Issues

August 23, 2007 – 8:47 pm

bioshock5.jpgThere have been rumblings and grumblings about the widescreen issues with the recent release of BioShock. Here is a statement that they have made from the BioShock homepage.

We understand there has been some concern about the implementation of widescreen mode in BioShock. Hopefully, we can clarify how we’ve chosen to do this.

The first thing we want to make clear is the mode we developed the game on and the optimal mode for playing the game is the widescreen mode. 90% of our development stations were widescreen displays: artists, programmers and designers.

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By Steve Kohlbecker | Posted in Loot Ninja | Also tagged , , | Comments (3)