People from outside the game industry must find it weird that the company for which I work for releases a game and I barely know anything about it (except what everyone reads on the internet). Of course, if I wanted, I could get in touch with the developers to get some inside scoop (!), but otherwise nothing. I guess it’s not specific to the game industry after all but to any big compagnies. Ubisoft has more than 3000 employees in multiple studios around the world so it’s tough to know what’s going on everywhere at once. That’s the job of the studio managers and various CEOs which they are pretty good at. I wouldn’t change job with them anytime soon as it a lot of managing, trips away from the familly (great once in a while, but not too often) and a lot of extra hours.

I don’t know where this post is going, but if you can (and have an xbox 360), grab a copy of graw as soon as you possibly can (or rent it)!

I’m anxious for the game I’m currently working to come up to get all that hype around it!! Can’t say what it is and when it’s coming out though!

I don’t like the fact that it requires the JRE to run it (and I had some problems with it – see below), but otherwise the basic functionalities work pretty well. I seem to have problems using the shortcuts and some other commands, but I guess it’s because of the fact that it runs on Java and is not a native windows application. Anyhow, give it a try, it’s free!

I had some problems launching the .exe because it uses the Java Runtime Environment, but instead, launching the .bat located in the same folder of the .exe works fine.

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I know I’m not doing so much personal blogging.  I’m more dumping links, embedding videos, pictures of things I found on the web or received through different rss feeds.  I mostly update my blog from work and don’t have much time to write long bits at a time.  I know that blogging and “don’t have much time” don’t really make help to popularize a blog, but still, I think/though that some people could find it fun to have some text, videos, pictures posted a couple of times a week about stuff I find on the net.

I could probably blog more about the industry I work in (games) and the work I do as I think it could be interesting for a couple of people.  I’m a 3D programmer so it’d probably be more about engine technologies, comments on different techniques, games, etc.  It could prove to be interesting.  Maybe I’ll try that.  However, writing about game programming probably involves writing a lot of text at once and as I said, I don’t have that much time and probably, not too many ideas.  Hmm, seems like a deadend!  Anyhow, I’m pretty sure I’ll continue posting miscellaneous tidbits at least so if you enjoy those, great and I’ll try to post stuff about games, game programming, etc when time allows and have good ideas of stuff I can post (that doesn’t violate any NDA about the stuff I’m currently working on).