I didn't know it was called "Half-Tile", but Treyarch's Spiderman 2 used this approach (I think it was called "bricks" internally) to stream the game. So when

I didn't know it was called "Half-Tile", but Treyarch's Spiderman 2 used this approach (I think it was called "bricks" internally) to stream the game. So when Spidey was speeding up to some direction, I think it was three bricks that would start asynchronously loading, and others would get cancelled (say CancelIoEx on Windows/etc.)