Morning DLC: Video Games News And Rumors 7/12/13
By Nick Tylwalk
"Deus Ex: The Fall is getting a fairly warm reception, but if you’ve modified your iOS device, you may want to resist buying the game. According to some early adopters, the game doesn’t let you use guns if your device is jailbroken.The restriction was caught by a user on Reddit (via Kotaku) and subsequently backed up by reviews in the App Store. When you hit the part of the tutorial that involves firing your weapon, an error message tells you, “We are sorry but you can’t fire on jailbroken devices.” Though you could conceivably stealth your way through without a weapon, failing to complete the tutorial by tranquilizing the guards may mean you can’t progress through the rest of the game."
"Epic founder and programming legend Tim Sweeney has predicted that we’ll see photo-realistic graphics within the next 10 years.Sweeney, who co-created the Unreal game engine, told an audience at the Develop Conference this morning that within that time frame we’ll see visuals that are “indistinguishable from reality”.“It’s continuing to improve at Moore’s Law rate,” he said. “Things are going to get really interesting. We’ll be able to render environments that are absolutely photo-realistic within the next 10 years, like indistinguishable from reality level of graphics.”"
"While blockbuster “AAA” titles are still being made, increasing numbers of people are playing games on mobile devices such as phones, tablets and portable game gadgets.The relatively limited capabilities of those devices has led to a huge rise in casual games written by independent developers, be they gathered in small studios or working alone.“The bigger studios are breaking up and there are definitely more indie and smaller studios around now,” said Will Freeman, editor of Develop magazine which writes about the UK game developer scene.“Those smaller studios are great for the creative output of the industry,” he said, adding that they tended to take more risks than the larger studios which had become more conservative as the budgets required to make top flight titles grew and grew."