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    How Dead Space Blinded Us With Science, Hit Us With Technology

    The developers of upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space are more than happy to show you the schematics they've worked up for protagonist Isaac Clarke's ore cutter, or how a handheld graviton accelerator might work in the far future, but it was the practicalities of the game's dynamic lighting system that blinded us with science. Under the jump, concepts that boggled the minds of people (me, mainly) used to getting their science served up with generous portions of fiction, such as the mysteries of ambient occlusion and how many milliseconds of the GPU Dead Space can allocate to bringing the awesome. More »
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