“He’s looking for a Kimura” Get used to this. You’ll be hearing it a lot, at least if the tournament I played is anything to go by. The development team at THQ have worked hard on making the commentary system sound natural. “You’re actually getting live broadcast feeds,” I was told by senior designer Wes Bunn. “The UFC gives us [...]
I met up with Thomas Singleton, producer for Grand Slam Tennis 2 to get his thoughts on making sports games more accessible, in-game commentary and using the PlayStation Move controller. The game, which is released next month, features all four Grand Slam tournaments, the ability to replay classic matches like Borg vs. McEnroe and a 10-year career mode. I asked [...]
Before the launch of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception I interviewed Justin Richmond, game director at Naughty Dog Studios where he talked about his reaction to seeing the video of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3 and the items the studio has hidden in the game. SPOILER WARNING: Even though Uncharted 2: Among Thieves came out in 2009, we appreciate that some [...]
Sony Ericsson have announced that the Android version of FIFA 12 is now available to download for free. Yes, completely free, but for a limited time only, like the 4 other free EA mobile games. Until the 21st Feb 2012, the game will be exclusive to the Xperia PLAY. Other Android handset owners will have to wait until after this [...]
The BioWare cofounders, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk are back in London tonight to give this year’s BAFTA Annual Video Games Lecture. This event sold out weeks ago and is always a highlight in the gaming calendar. Last year’s was given by Media Molecule’s Alex Evans, in which he talked about games development as the only medium to properly capture [...]
During my interview with Justin Richmond, game director of Uncharted 3 he talked about what Naughty Dog have hidden in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and revealed that Drake wasn’t always played by Nolan North. Richmond said “Jeremy Yates our lead animator is a surprising number of mocap moves for Drake because he’s almost the exact same size as Nolan [North]. [...]
A few weeks ago I was invited down to EA’s Guildford headquarters and plied with soft drinks and cookies to preview Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. This new open-world RPG comes from Big Huge Games and 38 Studios. Traditionally a strategy house (Rise of Nations, Catan), Reckoning is their first foray into role-playing games. With hugely successful creators involved, like R. [...]
Earlier on today I interviewed Justin Richmond, game director of Uncharted 3 and asked him if he’d seen the clip released by Sony of Harrison Ford playing the game. He said “I have. It blew my mind. Yesterday we were in Italy and one of the guys from Sony had loaded it up on his phone and we watched the [...]
At this year’s Eurogamer Expo I interviewed Chris Rhinehart, co-founder of Human Head Studios about the characters, story and reasons behind Prey 2′s new visual style and shift to open world gameplay. Prey was a first-person shooter in which you controlled a character called Domasi “Tommy” Tawodi around an alien spacecraft in search of his abducted girlfriend and grandfather. The [...]
At this year’s Eurogamer Expo I interviewed Sarah Wellock, Community Manager and Adam Vincent, 3D animator from Rocksteady Studios on the Batman: Arkham City stand. In the first part of this interview Sarah and Adam spoke about every single place in Arkham City being unique and the beefed up combat system. In the second part of the interview they talk [...]
Rocksteady Studios were showing off Batman: Arkham City at this year’s Eurogamer Expo both on the show floor and during 2 developer sessions. After 2.5 years of development, the sequel to the multi award winning Batman: Arkham Aslyum is almost ready for release. I played Batman: Arkham City whilst at E3 2011 earlier on this year and loved every minute [...]
The co-founders of BioWare, Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk were in London this weekend for a presentation at the Eurogamer Expo. Rich Burley from Newb Review, Chris Hartnup of Gaming Lives and I caught up with the doctors in a boutique Soho hotel to talk about the studio and where they are planning to take the company.
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