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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.)

When I first posted about Radio 1’s Big Gaming Weekend last bank holiday I admit I was a little cynical about the whole thing. But I am pleased to be completely wrong! It wasn’t too bad at all.

Call of Duty 4 won the best game of all time poll and Final Fantasy VII (my own choice!) came in at a very respectable third place.

The best part of the entire weekend was hidden right at the end of bank holiday monday and was a two hour gaming soundtrack mash-up mix by Jaguar Skills.

Featuring hip hop remixed as chiptunes, adverts from the Grand Theft Auto radio stations, Pacman, Mario, Outrun and Street Fighter 2 mash-ups AND even the Ulysses 31 theme!

Fortunately, if you missed it live you can still listen to the mix on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/biggamesweekend/feature/jaguarskills.shtml. The full tracklisting is also on the same page.

(If you want an mp3 version of the mix, there are a few copies floating around on rapidshare. Google it!)