Blue Mars Developer Appoints Henk Rogers As CEO
Established in Hawaii in 2006 by Rogers and president Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Avatar Reality launched its CryEngine 2-powered, client-based Blue Mars platform with an open beta two years ago, though it's yet to attract a substantial userbase. It also released a free, avatar-based iOS app in February.
The privately held company says that as Rogers expands his role and becomes more active at the firm he helped create, he will oversee the vision and direction for the virtual world platform, the iOS application, and Avatar Reality's "new, breakthrough technology in the pipeline".
Rogers is best know for the instrumental role he played in popularizing Alexey Pajitnov's landmark puzzle game Tetris. He is also CEO of Blue Planet Software, which co-owns The Tetris Company (a firm he co-founded with Pajitnov) and guided the Tetris franchise into selling some 125 million copies.
"I believe that the full potential of the Blue Mars platform and technology has yet to be realized," said Rogers. "With this, I am excited about the innovation to come, and am fully committed to the success of the company and Blue Mars."
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Undoomed: Doom 4 Not “Reskinned Rage”
“They’re [the Doom 4 team] going in their own direction,” Hooper added. “They’re doing something Doom fans will be happy with. I try to support them as much as possible. It’s a good thing. We’re separated enough to be able to go our own ways, but still connected where we can help facilitate both those directions. It is distinct enough. It would be dangerous… We don’t want to make a re-skinned Doom [with Rage] and then Doom 4 be a re-skinned Rage. That would be bad.”
My speculatometer points to Doom 4 (or 400M, as we’re calling it) being an attempt to return to the demonic themes and pacey blasting of the original games. Odds on for an unveiling at QuakeCon this summer, and a late-2012 release. But I guess we’ll see…
Kinect Spider-Man game 'would be hard,' says Activision
How cool would it be to fling web like Spider-Man in a Kinect or PlayStation Move-controlled video game? The idea sounds plausible, but it's not something we'll be seeing in this year's Spider-Man: Edge of Time from Beenox and publisher Activision.
"Unfortunately our game was long in development before Kinect or Move were ever announced so that kind of motion control stuff was never planned for and wasn't possible for our game, but I think in the future as that becomes more popular we'll definitely try to see if there's any opportunity there," Activision associate producer Dennis Bernardo told VideoGamer.com earlier this week.
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