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Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Game Studio Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:46 AM (permalink)

Who would have thought this would happen? lol.
http://www.eteknix.com/news/rovio-entertainment-acquire-futuremark/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=rovio-entertainment-acquire-futuremark

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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:52 AM (permalink)

...OK....???

On the brightside, we may get an interesting, better benchmark next time around.

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Kamarad Total Posts : 1965 Joined: 6/30/2010 Status: offline Ribbons: 4 Folding: 2,016,443	Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:57 AM (permalink) Ah I can see it now, a benchmark with flying Angry Birds going across the screen, lol.
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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:05 AM (permalink)

Kamarad

Ah I can see it now, a benchmark with flying Angry Birds going across the screen, lol.

That would be... kind of awesome.

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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:28 AM (permalink)

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Heavenly Total Posts : 211 Joined: 8/27/2011 Location: Chicago Status: offline	Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:43 AM (permalink) Kamarad Ah I can see it now, a benchmark with flying Angry Birds going across the screen, lol. Need this for the processor/physics test.
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Xazax310 Total Posts : 1443 Joined: 12/11/2006 Status: offline Ribbons: 3	Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:45 AM (permalink) Whaaaa O.o "An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." - Babylonian Proverb
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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:03 AM (permalink)

So if the computer does NOT meet the proper benchmarking standards then what would happen? Would a bunch of angry birds show up and start dive bombing the poor sap who's computer sucks?

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Orici Total Posts : 982 Joined: 1/16/2009 Location: Origin Status: offline	Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:22 AM (permalink) Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, announced today the acquisition of Futuremark Games Studio "Maybe one day you will learn that your way, is not the only way"
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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:14 AM (permalink)

they will probably ruine the company

it always just happens

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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:57 AM (permalink)

NazcaC2

Who would have thought this would happen? lol.
http://www.eteknix.com/news/rovio-entertainment-acquire-futuremark/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=rovio-entertainment-acquire-futuremark

Source: Press Release

What Rovio did makes no sense. I mean sure they can refocus what they do there, but who will really benefit from this? I mean do they really need a program that showcases low end tech and figure out how many instances of it that can run on a PC platform?

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NazcaC2 Total Posts : 4570 Joined: 6/21/2008 Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada Status: offline Ribbons: 16 Folding: 4,148	Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:02 PM (permalink) I edited the thread title to avoid confusion. Having a hand in the game studio won't likely influence Futuremark benchmarking tools. <message edited by NazcaC2 on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:03 PM>
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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:46 PM (permalink)

futuremark's games are quite different than the usual if you look at what they have made, they made a 3d axis FPS IN SPACE, and a turret defense game without "rails", you can change how that battlefield works. both games are fun, i just wish shattered horizon still had people playing it

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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:23 PM (permalink)

Read the article, sheesh :P

The games studio was a different part of the company that's been sold, not futuremark itself >_>

It's unfortunate because they've now cancelled the "sequel" to shattered horizon... :'(

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Re:Makers of Angry Birds acquire the benchmarking specialists Futuremark Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:11 AM (permalink)

Shattered Horizon was a cool concept, but no single player killed it for me.

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