{"id":166,"date":"2005-05-18T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=166"},"modified":"2024-06-12T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:58:00","slug":"when-is-xtreme-too-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"When Is “Xtreme” Too Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess for game developer Tecmo, it got too extreme when a relatively common videogame practice – reskinning a model (e.g. changing a game player’s visual appearance by modifying the model’s texture or “skin”) – crossed onto their XBox turf. Apparently the villians had the nerve to take scantily-clad beach volleyball babes from the classy Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball<\/em> and reskin the models sans itsy-bitsy bikini’s. Making game models bare it all isn’t new, but I guess Tecmo had never seen this kind of thing before. Yeah, right. Read the bullsh… story over on Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(and if companies think this is bad, just wait til browsers morph into 3D interfaces; yes Virginia, the net can<\/em> get worse)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess for game developer Tecmo, it got too extreme when a relatively common videogame practice – reskinning a model (e.g. changing a game player’s visual appearance by modifying the model’s texture or “skin”) – crossed onto their XBox turf. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}