3DMark, the Game

Tuesday 29th January 2008, 03:03:00 PM, written by Richard Connery

Futuremark, through its YouGamers publication, have announced that they have setup a games studio to develop, no prizes for guessing it, games. Nick Evanson, you remember him, swears he doesn't know anything more than what Futuremark posted in the press release but we'll get in touch with our old pal and see just how much that is true. We suspect pliers will be involved.

The aforementioned press release is predictably vague though it does mention "Futuremark Games Studio personnel will also be attending GDC 2008 in San Francisco where they can be found at the Nordic Games Studios Pavilion."

The other bit of information is that the games being developed will "deliver stellar performance even on modest platforms right up to the most enthusiastic levels of performance hardware."

It is interesting to see this new development, although Nick had already popped the question of doing more with games in 3D Mark back when he interviewed Futuremark. Small world!

 


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Latest Thread Comments (16 total)
Posted by Nick[FM] on Tuesday, 29-Jan-08 21:54:41 UTC
Quoting digitalwanderer
Hey Worm! What's the skinny on the games thing?

/me grabs his handy-dandy pliers and grins
Sorry mate, can't make any comments about it other than what has been said in the PR. You'll have to wait a bit longer. :wink: In case you want to catch up with an interview about the subject, check this out: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17145

Hopefully linking to that site is ok by the B3D staff?

Cheers,

Nick

Posted by digitalwanderer on Tuesday, 29-Jan-08 22:25:57 UTC
Alright, I'll let ya slide this time...provided you give me an exclusive when you're able and a preview copy. ;)

Quoting Nick[FM]
Hopefully linking to that site is ok by the B3D staff?
No problems there mate, relevant/informative links are always welcome. :)

Posted by Rodéric on Wednesday, 30-Jan-08 09:15:36 UTC
Quoting digitalwanderer
No problems there mate, relevant/informative links are always welcome. :)
Indeed.

Posted by Sobek on Thursday, 31-Jan-08 01:14:57 UTC
Quoting N00b
Though, admittedly, it lacked a bit on the interactive side. :wink:
Quoting Zaphod
Holy Cow!
Beat me to it! :lol:

I used to just love building up as much speed as possible and ramming the side walls... You fly so damn high, and using the wheel-side or bonnet view on the way down was kind of freaky. Plus, Terminator Cows! Can't get over how awesome that was, but I do wish they exploded into tinfoil scraps like their movie counterparts :cool:

I'm going to naturally assume that Futuremark is going for an FPS? Really hope we see some more poly's on characters and some good attention to detail paid to animations. It's really the only thing that irks me about 3dmark recently; it's like we're looking at robo-dudes (except '03's Proxycon, the character movements were surprisngly good).

I look forward to seeing what comes of this... Just please, no muddy brown *Mars Trench Warfare™*! :lol:

Posted by XMAN26 on Thursday, 31-Jan-08 01:20:31 UTC
Quoting Sobek
Beat me to it! :lol:

I used to just love building up as much speed as possible and ramming the side walls... You fly so damn high, and using the wheel-side or bonnet view on the way down was kind of freaky. Plus, Terminator Cows! Can't get over how awesome that was, but I do wish they exploded into tinfoil scraps like their movie counterparts :cool:

I'm going to naturally assume that Futuremark is going for an FPS? Really hope we see some more poly's on characters and some good attention to detail paid to animations. It's really the only thing that irks me about 3dmark recently; it's like we're looking at robo-dudes (except '03's Proxycon, the character movements were surprisngly good).

I look forward to seeing what comes of this... Just please, no muddy brown *Mars Trench Warfare™*! :lol:
As long as it isn't as lame as the last 3 benchmark suites they have released, it should be half way decent.

Posted by Unknown Soldier on Friday, 01-Feb-08 09:20:33 UTC
3DMark Vantage

Quote
3DMark Vantage Teasers Arrive

The time has come for Futuremark to finally show something official from the next 3DMark - 3DMark Vantage. Futuremark released the first three screen shots from 3DMark Vantage this morning and of course Legit Reviews has them for you to see. The screen shots are taken from the latest build of 3DMark Vantage and thus each one is labeled "work in progress".
Read More: http://legitreviews.com/article/658/1/

Image: http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/658/3DMV2.jpg

One question Nick, are these real? It's looking very good if it is real.

US

Posted by Nick[FM] on Friday, 01-Feb-08 13:46:57 UTC
Quoting Unknown Soldier
One question Nick, are these real? It's looking very good if it is real. US
Yep, they are the real thing. They are, however, "work in progress" shots which mean that the final result may differ a bit here and there. Cheers, Nick

Posted by AlStrong on Friday, 01-Feb-08 15:25:56 UTC
You may not be able to answer this right away, but how extensive will the benchmarking diagnostics be? (framerate, polygon rate, polygons on screen, various memory loads etc)

Posted by Nick[FM] on Friday, 01-Feb-08 20:37:38 UTC
Quoting AlStrong
You may not be able to answer this right away, but how extensive will the benchmarking diagnostics be? (framerate, polygon rate, polygons on screen, various memory loads etc)
Unfortunately I can't say anything really.. You guys need to wait a bit longer. We're not quite there yet. :smile:

Cheers,

Nick

Posted by fellix on Friday, 01-Feb-08 20:53:45 UTC
Hm, being DX10 bench, is it there a possibility the default set of settings to include mandatory AA?


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