Real Homemade Sentry Gun!

Here's something for you Portal/Team Fortress fans (or fans of any fps set in any time period post 1998 for that matter). Some geeks with an affinity for motion sensors and paintballs built an actual auto-targeting sentry gun! No remote controls or anything (just a cumbersome laptop parked next to it) Prepare to be amazed as some poor kid in a bmx helmet gets wailed on by an automatic paintball gun with nothing to lose!

Via Kotaku, The Sentry Project

Team Fortress 2 - Cartoons Never Looked So Badass

Since the PS3 and XBox360 came out I've wondered how long it will be before video games begin using character animation sophisticated enough to make gameplay indistinguishable from say, a Pixar movie. Turns out the designers at Valve are in fact hard at work creating gorgeously rendered, chunky-yet-smooth cartoon character designs for the upcoming Team Fortress 2.


Illustrative Rendering In Team Fortress 2

This behind-the-scenes vid is refreshingly technical and info-packed, but those who, like me, don't include the words "clamped lambertian" in their volcabularly might get lost around 2:13. Might. I'm not saying I did.

For high-res vids of these hot graphics in action, check out the game teasers, which show off a great sense of humor as well.

Via Bleeding Pixels