Today, Brandon Sheffield and Chris Remo interview Soren Johnson at Gamasutra. They mostly focus on Spore, but also there is some general commentary about strategy gaming, publisher expectations and designing without a core audience in mind. Some snippets: For example, we have a super-weapon system, which is something that came along maybe six months ago, […]
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Is Nostalgia Worth Ten Bucks to You?
July 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Industry, Retro
Good Old Games is a new game download system that will focus on delivering the games from yesteryear to your hard drive, all for between five and ten bucks. I suppose it’s not a bad idea, but we already have Gametap, right? Competition is good, of course, but a lot will depend on the ease […]
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Quote? Misquote? Cite?
July 7th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Blogs, Design, Industry
The best thing about the internet is that hyperlinking lets you direct readers to your sources. The worst thing about the internet is that nobody bothers pointing out their print sources. This came to mind when I finally got around to reading Chris Bateman’s critique of the Sid Meier bromide that a game is “a […]
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E3 Ten Years Ago
July 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CGM, E3, Industry
I was talking to a colleague yesterday about going to E3. He isn’t, and he hasn’t been in a long time. Like me, he’s primarily a PC gamer, so he feels a little bit out of the loop with the new console heavy E3 schedule. So, just for kicks, I dug out the Computer Games […]
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Producers Say the Darnedest Things
June 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Industry, RTS
EA’s Jim Vessella on the console version of Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. “We think that this is certainly going to be the best control scheme for RTS games coming out next week” Vessella makes no claims as to how it stacks up to games coming out the week after.
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Marketing 101
May 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Industry
RPS has linked to a video from Creative Assembly, a video mostly about motion capture animation for the dueling movies in Empire: Total War. Characters can settle their disputes by dressing up and stabbing the other guy. The duel movies are, I suppose, the Empire equivalent of the assassination or spying movies in Medieval 2. […]
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