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How a simple gesture could completely change impressions of a project
If you know your science fiction, you know of Ender’s Game (and if you haven’t read it, you should). What you may not know is that Ender’s Game is being adapted into a film written and directed by Gavin Hood (of Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine). The team has been keeping some good notes on the p
Diablo III: Inside the Game.
Almost twenty years ago, a game developer just getting its first real taste of success released an innovative and darkly beautiful game with a simple premise: click on monsters until they die. Collect the weapons and money they drop. Use this to improve yourself. Then, go on to kill more monsters un
KICKSTARTER OF THE DAY: Jason Rohrer’s Diamond Trust of London is here!
Jason Rohrer is ready to take on the Nintendo DS with his new game Diamond Trust of London. A Kickstarter page is devoted to the project and will help out manufacturing costs. The game involves outfoxing and bribery, Diamond Trust is a two-player, turn-based, simultaneous-decision strategy game abou
Cheat Sheet 5/9: Bioshock Infinite delayed, Insomniac’s next project, and Happy One Billion, Angry Birds.
In case you missed it: BIoshock Infinite was delayed until February 2013. Insomniac announced its new project, Outernauts. BioWare lost some subscribers from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Watch out, Call of Duty. Angry Birds just reached the one billion mark. Dead Space 3 will feature co-op. See you
Why Assassin’s Creed 3’s inclusion of slavery is so important
Cinemablend‘s Pete Haas has reported that Assassin’s Creed 3, set during the American Revolution, will deal with slavery. Matt Turner, the game’s lead writer spoke about the subject saying: It’s something we’ve been very aware of. We feel that kind of a subject deserves a certain amount attention be
PAUSE: A blast from the past with console development kits
Ever wondered what consoles look like before they come out? A user over at Reddit posted a few pictures of development kits for the PS2, GameCube, Xbox and Dreamcast: My how much they..er..shrunk. [Via Reddit]
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