Monday, March 10, 2008

Kings of Power 4 Billion % Due Next Week

Top 5 Game-Inspired Music Videos
Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
Paul Robertson - The birth of Starman

Interview: Samorost Developer Jakub Dvorsky

Can you tell us what Machinarium is all about?

Machinarium is a strange rusty metallic place populated only by robots. The story is about a little robot who has been unjustly thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city. In the game he returns to the town where he meets the bad guys from Black Cap Brotherhood - they are just preparing a bomb attack on the central tower where the town ruler has residence in. Of course our hero must stop them and also rescue his friend robot-girl.
Interview: Samorost Developer Jakub Dvorsky
machinarium, from the makers of Samorost
Samorost

Mirror's Edge screenshots & concepts

Screenshots
Concepts
Mirror's Edge screenshots 2
Mirror's Edge screenshots

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Karoshi - death by working too hard

Karoshi, Kill Yourself, Over and Over

Warren Spector - Master Class Videos

1. September 10, 2007: Warren Spector (Intro Lecture)
2. September 17, 2007: Patricia York (HR Director, Disney Interactive Studios)
3. September 24, 2007: Harvey Smith (then Creative Director, Midway Austin)
4. October 1, 2007: Hal Barwood (Game Designer, Screenwriter par excellence)
5. October 8, 2007: Matthew Bellows (GM, Floodgate Entertainment)
6. October 15, 2007: Marc LeBlanc (Designer/Programmer, Mind Control Software)
7. October 22, 2007: Mike Morhaime (President, Blizzard)
8. October 29, 2007: Tim Willits (Lead Designer, id Software)
9. November 5, 2007: Seamus Blackley (Talent Agent, Creative Artists Agency - also, “Father of the Xbox”)
10. November 12, 2007: Paul Weaver (Director of Development, Junction Point Studios)
11. November 19, 2007: Gordon Walton (Co-Studio Director, Bioware Austin)
12. November 26, 2007: Richard Garriott (Creative Guy whose title I don’t actually know, NC Soft)
13. December 3, 2007: Richard Hilleman (Guy With No Title - and proud of it - at Electronic Arts)
Warren Spector’s blog - Master Class Videos
Mirror to all the videos

Gearbox - Aliens: Colonial Marines

LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO (February 21st, 2008) - SEGA Europe Ltd. and SEGA of America, Inc. today revealed details of the highly anticipated squad-based first-person shooter video game, Aliens: Colonial Marines™. Licensed through an exclusive agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising and developed by Gearbox Software, the game will be available on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows-based PC in late 2008.
Sega Drops Details On Aliens: Colonial Marines
More screenshots

machinarium, from the makers of Samorost

Amanita Design team (Samorost 1 & 2) is now working on a full-scale adventure game called Machinarium. We expect to release the game in the 2nd half of 2008. More Info sooner or later.
machinarium
Samorost

Rants on Piracy and the PC gaming industry


Casual Games and Piracy: The Truth
Piracy & Casual Games - The Follow-Up
THQ Creative Director Rants on Piracy, Death of Iron Lore