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"There have been a lot of men crying, including me"
Blitz co-founder Philip Oliver's first interview since the demise of one of the UK's longest-running developers.
VideoYoostar launch trailer unleashed
Namco Bandai mucks about with movies.
VideoYoostar 2 for Kinect gameplay
Godfather! Terminator! Star Trek!
VideoEllen DeGeneres plays Yoostar 2
Chat show host takes on The Fighter.
Key events
11th March 2011
2nd March 2011
10th February 2011
"There have been a lot of men crying, including me"
Blitz co-founder Philip Oliver's first interview since the demise of one of the UK's longest-running developers.
This morning the 23-year-old UK developer Blitz ceased trading, resulting in the loss of some 175 jobs.
Kitsu Emotional Avatar tech unveiled
Blitz Games Studios takes on Project Milo.
Yoostar 2 maker Blitz Games Studios has unveiled ambitious new technology it hopes will help create more emotionally engaging characters in video games.
Duke Nukem and… Kate Middleton?
The Royal Kiss DLC hits Yoostar 2.
We're pretty sure the Royal Kiss didn't go down like this.
Yoostar 2 adds YouTube functions
Rate, mash-up videos via Facebook app.
Yoostar 2 has gained the in-game ability to upload videos directly to YouTube.
VideoYoostar launch trailer unleashed
Namco Bandai mucks about with movies.
VideoYoostar 2 for Kinect gameplay
Godfather! Terminator! Star Trek!
VideoEllen DeGeneres plays Yoostar 2
Chat show host takes on The Fighter.
Chat show host takes on The Fighter.
"It's not a tumour!"
All the Hollywood scenes and Hollywood sets that will feature in upcoming movie karaoke game Yoostar 2 have been revealed.
They are:
Hollywood Scenes
Namco Bandai picks up Yoostar 2
Out soon.
Namco Bandai Partners will distribute Blitz Games' interactive movie game Yoostar 2 in Europe.
Digital FoundryIs Xbox 360 holding back Kinect?
USB "technicalities" blamed.
Blitz Games founder Phillip Oliver says that the "technicalities of the Xbox" are holding back Kinect from providing higher resolution images. Talking about Blitz's new game, Yoostar, with Gamesindustry.biz, Oliver describes how Microsoft added a digital zoom to the Kinect feature-set as the full high resolution image was not available for the developers to access themselves.
Today's games use 20-30% of Kinect
Yoostar 2 dev claims to use more.
Blitz Games claims to be getting nearly twice as much out of Kinect as everyone else. Those games you see on the shelves today - they're using barely a third of what the new device can do.
