Killzone 3 may be one of Sony’s flagship titles to demonstrate its 3D gaming technology and the use of the Move, but developer Guerrilla doesn’t want to shut core gamers out, either.

Sony has its hands in quite a few buckets at the moment, pushing the envelope in several directions. On the one hand, it has PlayStation Move, a technology that it would like to prove can work well in “hardcore” games as well as “casual” minigame collections. On the other it has 3D gaming, which – when combined with the expensive TVs and glasses necessary to make it work – has some gamers dubious that it will be anything truly new.

Guerrilla Games’ Killzone 3 is, in many ways, Sony’s highest-profile title designed to prove that both of these new technologies can work for gamers. Speaking with 1UP, however, Guerrilla’s managing director Herman Hulst said that the developer didn’t want to make gamers who weren’t going to be using Move or 3D feel unwelcome.

“3D is a great feature, but it’s an option to the game,” said Hulst. “I don’t want people who don’t have 3D to have a suboptimal experience … The same with Move. These things are options.” That didn’t mean he wasn’t positive on the experience, of course. “They’re great options. I think they’re here to stay. Just like we moved from mono sound to stereo sound. You wouldn’t want to go back after awhile. But you don’t force people to buy another transistor radio … [we] have to listen to the audience in that regard.”

“[We] don’t want to alienate the core audience.”

Wise words, perhaps. Even if playing the game in 3D does “pull you into the action,” mandating a $1000~ purchase for a full game experience doesn’t seem like a wise idea.

Killzone 3 is of course the sequel to 2009’s Killzone 2, which was one of the most highly-anticipated PS3 games of all time until it came out and everybody stopped caring like, a month later.

See the full story here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106124-Killzone-3-Wont-Alienate-Non-3D-Non-Move-Gamers

Blu-ray, 3D and international Internet publishing are all in the curriculum at a new school, the University of Digital Technology.

With classes available online or at the school’s state-of-the-art facilities in Spokane, students seeking a real-life, working environment in the changing digital world where Blu-ray discs, 3D for games and films as well as related news publishing and marketing.

Blue Star Technologies is providing roughly half of its downtown “new tech” center facilities to the University of Digital Technology, which will provide live time training for the next generation of digital creators for entertainment, media, science and the new arts.

UDT is only for elite students willing to work hard for their future, as the four-story historical building has only 55 dorm rooms.

Classes are centered on the highly profitable Digital Development field and include advanced platforms, navigation in the BR and 3D worlds, and the physics of Blu-ray mastering and menu design for advanced BR media, and mastering movies to Blu-ray discs.

Included is marketing of the discs you created, and publishing effective websites and other tools to promote yourselves independently and with mass media, should you decide not to work within a studio conglomerate.Additional classes include operation of real BR and 3D manufacturing lines from running the delicate machines to quality control to film studio standards.

In conjunction with Hollywood Today Newsmagazine (one million hits per day), whose members of the 60-strong crew has either run or been top-staffers at most of the successful online publications, UDT will offer a full line of journalism, online publishing, Google maximization, marketing, promotion, sales and international business dealings in the digital field.

Students will see their stories published on a regular basis, often with No. 1 Google News ranking, with headlines viewed by 54 million readers an hour. They will have a chance to build a portfolio of articles in a major publication, and under the tutelage of editors who have worked for New York Times, L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, E!, Variety, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Variety and Hollywood Reporter.

see the full story here: http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2010/12/13/university-of-digital-technology-to-spread-its-3d-wings/