stalker asset thread resolution

    yeah, there's no way you get 25 identically named and proportionally sized textures including specific references to d3 content (namely, impflash) without lifting the content from them, even IF id licensed it in the first place, of which the odds are slim to none.

    edit: or perhaps not, actually... but meh.

    Those articles are totally inconclusive. Til we hear from actual developers at those companies or someone who has access to one of those texture packs and can confirm the textures come from them, then I'm not convinced.

    I think the Inquire had this info from a forum. As i browsed the forum threads and newspages as the news went around the web it found a posting where someone speculated that these textures are from Marlin Studios and he also posted a link.

    in my opinion the "Inquirer" picked it up saw that "valve" and "activision" are on the client list and made a news from it. they had strange news before. its typical for the Inquirer.

    There is no offical statement since the last news from GSC,id or valve.

    look at the product page. maril studios doesnt mention impact effects or light-SFX images. you can take look at all the productdescription,thumbs or whatever they have on the page. you wont find anything that looks like the doom/quake4 style lightimages.

    the stalker patch is still not out althought it was announced to out two weeks ago. i will take a look at the files again if it comes out and its likely that the images are overwritten with other images but the same filename.

    this is still speculations and every newspage will make their own news from the Inquirer news but this shows that everyone has to stay sceptic what media tells the reader.

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    The common source in question appears to be Marlin Studios, a company that offers pre-made texture packs in a variety of themes, intended for use in video games and movies.

    It was me who pointed that out, where's my credit damnit?

    Kinda proves that Shacknews and Inquirer aren't worth their e-weight in shit. Not only did they apparently not verify the original story (all these news sites just quoted each other, which all led back to mapcore - for all they knew it could have been an April fools joke)... but then they go and say the matter is resolved totally on the hear'say of some people guessing about those texture packs, when the facts have not been confirmed by anyone.

    Rubbish, be ashamed, crappy so-called news sites.

    It is kind of lame when credit isn't given, although I think they only really do it for forums and shit as they linked to my old game site a few times. I assume the motive is that if they turn out to be totally fucking wrong, it's harder for the site's readers to say "You took that shit forum post seriously?!", while a site tends to hold a bit more authority and the liability would fall on them for the bad reporting.

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