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Google Lively (powered by Gamebryo)

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Over on Gamasutra they have an interview with Mel Guymon, Google’s 3D operations director and in it he is kind enough to give us a shout out… thanks Mel!
He suggested the application, which runs in a webpage plugin using elements of Emergent’s Gamebryo game engine, could be compared to existing applications such as Second Life [...]

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A Hoot of a Fun Time in Shanghai

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Over on the Emergent Asia blog there is a fun post and video on a recent event we sponsored.
A Hoot of a Fun Time in Shanghai
Hooters in China! does anyone else find that amusing? Or is it just a symptom of the global economy?

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Four new blogs..

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Four new blogs have popped up authored by friends from within Emergent. I am excited to see this happening more and more as we have a truly great bunch of people working here with a lot to share.

John is blogging at – Emergent Game Technologies in Asia
John is the tireless supper-traveler that puts all road [...]

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New PS3 player in town!

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I am so thrilled that our work on PS3 is starting to get coverage I had to call it out!
At Sony’s DevNet last year we showed off an early prototype of our Floodgate technology, it was a simple little developer art app with morphing objects (but lots of them) and a slider that controled dynamicaly [...]

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Our new face

March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

In the midst of GDC08 our marketing team quietly rolled out a brand new shiny web site. (www.emergent.net)
The old one was a bit of a maze and finding what you needed took work. The big issue we had was that it was basically a static old-school site. It did have a page creation system behind [...]

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