Starbreeze at Webhallen Riddick: AoDA release

Riddick: AoDA Webhallen release med Starbreeze (Swedish)

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Performance

"Combined with a Geforce GTX 285 only the Athlon 64 4000+ delivers a framerate that isn't absolutely smooth, but the X2 5000+ is already fast enough to run Assault on Dark Athena over 40 fps.

The transition form a dual- to a quad-core processor delivers an increase in performance by about 10 percent only and thus is almost negligible."

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - CPU performance review
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Graphics cards benchmarks and system requirements

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Demo

Riddick: Dark Athena demo hits Live

Gametrailers: Assault on Dark Athena Preview

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Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena release dates

US: April 7th
EU: April 24th

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Starbreeze reports Q2 revenues up 54%

Starbreeze reports Q2 revenues up 54%

Pre-order Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Enclave before it became Enclave

GameSpot play Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

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Starbreeze developing the next Bourne game

EA Gets Ludlum, Starbreeze Does Bourne

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - More trailers

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Trailer
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena first footage

GRTV: Assault On Dark Athena Interviews

SPECIAL: Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena Multiplayer Interview
SPECIAL: Riddick - Assault On Dark Athena Interview Part II
SPECIAL: Riddick - Assault On Dark Athena Interview Part I
ATARI: Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Ian Stevens being interviewed about Riddick!

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Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Trailer

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Trailer

Yay, the Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena trailer is out! Embedding is disabled for now, but I'll put it up here once it works. Until then, follow the link below to check it out in all its glory.

I'm responsible for all the frapsing of the footage, and gameplay, but didn't do the cutting. Yay, PR! :)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Atari Live trailer
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Preview

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Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Preview

"The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is quickly shooting to the top of our list of most-anticipated titles of 2009.

Playing Escape from Butcher Bay again, remade for the Xbox 360 is exciting in its own right, and the promise of new adventures, new multiplayer modes, new finishing moves and the lot is just a huge pile of icing on the cake."

Chances are, that any screenshot you'll see from the new campaign was taken by me, like the above two :)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Preview
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Spring 2009
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is almost done

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Spring 2009

- Remake of the original
- All-new full-length campaign
- Online Multiplayer

You'll get your moneys worth with this one for sure. But don't take my word for it, and check the reviews once it's out instead :)

Atari to publish 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena' worldwide spring 2009

Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is almost done

Seemingly forever ago, Vivendi and developer Starbreeze announced The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, a next-gen remake of their cult hit Xbox game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. But after that announcement, the game seemingly dropped off of the radar. The general consensus among gamers was that it had been quietly cancelled. I can tell you today, happily, that it is still coming along and seems to be closer to release than you'd think.

I contacted Starbreeze CEO Johan Kristiansson through e-mail, and he informed me that

"We are certianly working on it, and we are almost done actually and the game looks great. We are just waiting for the marketing campaign to get started now."

He didn't give me a time frame for release, but it seems like it will hopefully be out sooner rather than later.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena includes the full single-player campaign from Escape from Butcher Bay along with a brand new single-player campaign as well as brand new multiplayer modes. It is coming out for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 sometime this year.

Status Update - The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena first footage
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Assault on Dark Athena Preview
Starbreeze interviewed

Starbreeze interviewed

What can you tell us about a Darkness sequel, which was “announced” at Comic Con last week?

- [RN] The Darkness 2 is only a rumor at this point, and there’s no substance to that rumor. What we like you to report on however, is Chronicles of Riddick – The Assault on Dark Athena. There were rumors that it’s been cancelled, but that is not true. It’s alive and well!

Exclusive Interview: Starbreeze Discusses New Riddick Game, Darkness Sequel Rumors, and more! (Part 1 of 2)

Do you focus a lot on the scores, like on Metacritic and Game Rankings?

- [JA] Yes, and that is very important nowadays because it sometimes happens that publishers connect bonus deals to the scores a game gets on Game Rankings and such. The latest I heard is that it’s connected to the five biggest reviews, if you pass a certain score. And I think that is pretty damn interesting.

Because, it is a relatively good way to measure a game, and probably better, from a developers perspective, than sales figures, which you don’t have any control over. A developer can control the score and review a game gets relatively good, and reviewers tend to reward innovation. I like that way of thinking about it, to look more at actual reviews than sales figures.

Exclusive Interview: Starbreeze’s Jens Andersson discusses the gaming press and the neverending games-as-art debate (Part 2 of 2)

Starbreeze and EA partner up to reinvent classic

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb 21, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ERTS | news | PowerRating | PR Charts -- EA Partners today announced that it has teamed up with Starbreeze Studios, the award-winning developers of The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay to reinvent one of EA's most acclaimed classic franchises. The title, with the internal code name Project RedLime, is being developed for the PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360(TM) system from Microsoft and PC.

"EA Partners is thrilled to hand over the keys to one of EA's most acclaimed franchises to Starbreeze Studios," said David DeMartini, vice president and general manager of EA Partners. "Starbreeze's pedigree is undisputed and we could not be happier to welcome them to the EA Partners family. The team is creating an incredibly innovative take on a classic property and EA Partners is poised to deliver a blockbuster launch on the global stage."

"EA Partners gives independent developers like Starbreeze access to EA's unrivaled global publishing infrastructure, letting us focus our energy on what we do best - making incredible games," said Johan Kristiansson, CEO of Starbreeze Studios. "We're already deep in development on Project RedLime and the team at EA is giving us the time we need to perfect our vision. We're excited to bring a new perspective and gameplay innovation to this beloved fiction."

Additional information about the Starbreeze project will follow in the coming months. For more information about other EA games, please visit http://info.ea.com.

Developers interested in working at Starbreeze can search available jobs at http://www.starbreeze.com

Starbreeze and EA partner up to reinvent classic EA franchise

A random picture of Andrei

Just a random picture of Andrei chilling it out in my office, testing the game. Hope you'll be able to meet up with us at Avalanche Game Developer Evening, on Thursday, February 7th.