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It’s been a while since I caught up with anything new in the demoscene but this amazing 4k intro was bought to my attention by Phil of retroleum.co.uk.

It features almost photo-realistic landscapes displayed in realtime using procedurally-generated textures all in 4KB. You don’t have to understand that… You just have to watch it and pick up your jaw afterwards!

The soundtrack isn’t bad either.

The trade-off is that it will probably only run on the PC that you are going to buy in about two years time. Fortunately you can watch the video if you don’t have the horsepower in your system to run the executable.

All the relevant links are on the pouet page here: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938

If you are going to watch it as streaming video, please pick the demoscene.tv link as youtube doesn’t do it justice at all.

(Yes, it’s been another slow week! More posts next week all being well.)

According to a post on the US Playstation blog by Rusty Buchet, Farbrausch are about to debut a demo on the Playstation Network for the PS3. Well they describe it as an interactive art experience, or god forbid a music visualiser, but to you and me it’s a demo!

.deTuned by Farbrausch

They haven’t released too many details at the moment and the only blurb is: .deTuned is a bit of an odd beast that offers an abstract and surreal interactive experience like nothing else. It is not exactly a game or an art piece like Linger in Shadows. It allows you to create your own visual to accompany your favorite music tracks on the XMB, and using the SIXAXIS™ Wireless Controller, you will be able to manipulate the given scene by interacting with and modifying a man and his world. It even lets you tweak your music as you play with it.

Plastic were the first group to release on the Playstation Store with the excellent Linger in Shadows a few months back. If you missed it then you can still grab it for about £1.99. Don’t be tight! It’s virtually free! It’s almost worth the price alone to be able to get a trophy called “Greetings to Fairlight”… Although I would absolutely love one called “Fairlight cracked Elfmania 100%” :p

I’m still hoping for a Desert Dream in 2009!

Source: Introducing detuned