Graham Cookson

Avid gamer & massive fan of @EyeOfJackieChan. Production Manager of @MegaVisionsMag, European Editor of @SEGANerds & Marketing Content Writer at @Teradata

[Jilted Valkyrie @JiltedValkyrie]

I know I'm a day early but... Happy Haloween! Here's 3.5 minutes of brand new areas unseen... and a hot Cortana screenshot for ya on Halo running on Sega Dreamcast. I'm pretty proud of how I got Cortana to look considering the Dreamcast has no GPU shaders.

I know I haven't had a lot of Halo: DCE screenshots or videos lately, but I have been SLIPSPACE on this hotcake. I am nearing a stable 30 fps in most places (obviously heavy combat slows, but it's almost always above 20 now). Every little thing is adding up slowly, but surely. Actually, it's been quite fast, to be honest... I only started porting the game 15 days ago. 😂

It's probably the single most modified version of Halo running out there and the entire campaign is nearly fully playable with about half the cutscenes and fully drivable (and flyable) vehicles. I've been doing it myself only so far, but that is going to change shortly as I hand off parts of the projects to other, and far more intelligent, Dreamcast developers to help get this champion Halo: Dreamcast Evolved as the system's most definitively impressive game in its library.

From creating custom tools for manageing assets one-by-one, fine-tuning Cortana's err assets, running MCP servers to reduce or recreate assets to save hundreds, if not thousands of polygons in a scene, to dynamic LOD and draw distances to keep combat and exploration as smooth as possible.

The optimisations will continue, however, as will the full game be completely playable on a stock 16MB Dreamcast.

Here's how things are looking now!

[Finlay McLaren @fin_lay24]

Sir Patrick Stewart's first TV appearance as a fireman in Coronation Street (1967)

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

This is phenomenal logic at the end. 👌

[VGNYsoft Games | Physical Games. Full on Disc. @VGNYSoft]

The much anticipated Dreamcast Junkyard 20th Anniversary Collection is NOW LIVE!

Celebrate 20 years of Dreamcast Junkyard with exclusive merchandise, VMUs, and replacement shells created for dedicated Dreamcast fans.

This is a one time production run, and the collection will only be available for one month. Once ordering closes, these items will be gone for good, so place your order today!

Worldwide shipping is available, and all items are scheduled to begin shipping in August.

More Info on the collaboration: https://t.co/kM25l7LQj0

Get your items here: https://t.co/r2rpLBthKu

@TheDCJunkyard #Dreamcast #SupportIndies #DreamcastIndies #DreamcastJunkyard #LimitedTime

[scottymofosho.bsky.social @ScottyMoFoSho]

Coulda sworn I recognized that photo @vgdunkey used. Hey @GGDreamcast you’re famous!

[OrionSoft @onorisoft]

Escape 2049 kickstarter campaign is stalling, please spread the word about this new action run'n gun puzzle platformer game for the #SegaGenesis #Megadrive and #GameboyAdvance Otherwise it won't see the light of day. Link => https://t.co/e8qa7GsBax

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@falco_girgis @DiscussKing Just to check... the Dreamcast version is on the left, yeah? The ambient lighting from the projectiles looks insane! A lot better than the one on the right. Which looks good still - but definitely looks visually more impressive on the left (to me).

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@edannunziata @edannunziata I'd love to see a new 3D entry in the series! Exploring beautiful oceans and the sky waterways in 3D would be awesome.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@Fonslayer @BHGam1ng @lanadej1 @Xcension How could Sony lay off people from a company it doesn't own?
Sony had a partnership with Deviation to make an exclusive AAA game. So Sony gave financial support to help back the project. But they don't own the studio, or have control over the employees.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@TheDailyShow Wait. Genuine question. Does America not have those types of shopping carts? They've been around since the 90s in most of Europe!
And the escalators with the wheel lock are also a thing outside of Russia. Tucker should have visited more of Europe, he would have creamed his pants!

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

With all the #Xbox rumours & controversy happening right now, I'm not sure if #Amazon is trolling me with this push notification...

[XBOX @XBOX]

Please join us for a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast.

Hear from Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty as they share updates on the Xbox business.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@ToRecallE @EliasToufexis Classic example of: Tell us you've never worked in the games industry, without telling us you've never worked in the games industry. 🤦

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@ScottyMoFoSho @chris_madmax LMAO! @ScottyMoFoSho I remember that episode. Lol. I'm pretty sure I did a terrible job explaining what it was 😂
Such a great game/toy though!

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@_Tom_Henderson_ More & more games need a year of updates to become fully realised (i.e. Starfield, Cyberpunk, No Man's Sky). So by the time a game comes to PS5/6, it'll be the best version. If PS has true exclusives, may as well buy a PS & wait for the Xbox game to land on PS in a better state.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@tinivule @RussiaLIES @aegies "... games are not the only reason people buy consoles."
Huh? What else is the main reason to buy a specific console, if not for the *exclusive* games?!
All the extra features (BluRay, apps etc) are basically the same these days. Games are the only thing you'd buy a console for.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@CorbynRed @JezCorden With Bioware being owned by EA, no please god no, don't give it to Bioware!

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@bigmol1985 @JezCorden I was late to the Deus Ex party, but when I tried to play the original, I really struggled to get into it.
Though it seems everyone who started with it says it's the best. So maybe I need to persevere?

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@JezCorden Agreed. When Cyberpunk first came out & I played it, all I could think about was wanting to play Deus Ex Human Revolution & Mankind Divided again.
I kept getting Deus Ex vibes from Cyberpunk & just wasn't enjoying it as much as Revolution or Divided.

[Graham Cookson @GrahamCookson]

@UniDaSensei Same thing happened when Sony bought Bungie last year. Were you mad at them too?
It's sh*tty but it's very common when companies merge or get bought out. Overlapping jobs aren't needed, so sadly some people have to go.