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This Hysteria Alice Figure Is a Bloody, Wicked Mess

Brian Crecente — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:40:00 EST

Coming to comic shops and specialty retailers near you, these Gentle Giant sculpted action figures give Alice: Madness Returns a chance to play with the darker side of Lewis Carroll's creations. More »

Alice: Madness Returns is Less Curiouser and Curiouser, more Averager and Averager

Alec Meer | Rock Paper Shotgun — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:00:00 EDT

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The semi-sequel to American McGee's Alice arrived last week. A timely return to a gothic wonderland, or is too late, too late for a very important date with our hard drives? Come on, down the rabbit hole with you and let's find out… More »

About Time Somebody Thought to Remaster Old Trailers In HD

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:30:00 EDT

Reader Gray, with a little help from actress Jennymarie Jemison and Zane Rutledge, one of the original Alice's CG artists, has sent us two clips fans of American McGee's and EA's series might be interested in. More »

Do Not Adjust Your Brains, It's Just The Alice: Madness Returns Launch Trailer

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:20:00 EDT

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Like countless crayon drawings from a crazed mind coming together to form a giant disturbing picture, American McGee's vision coalesces in the launch trailer for Alice: Madness Returns. More »

The Sweet, Yet Slightly Creepy Art of Alice: Madness Returns

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:00:00 EDT

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A PC cult classic returns (and on consoles this time, too) next month when Alice: Madness Returns hits shelves. More »

American McGee Says American McGee's Alice Is Coming To The New Alice: Madness Returns

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:30:00 EDT

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Perhaps you're interested in playing the new fantasy adventure Alice: Madness Returns, but have never enjoyed the 11-year-old PC original. Worry not, for it appears that the first game, American McGee's Alice is coming to consoles as a downloadable game as well. More »

Going Crazy For Alice: Madness Returns

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:00:00 EST

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A decade on from American McGee's Alice, a stylishly gothic and twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, gamers are given the opportunity to return to this twisted world with Alice: Madness Returns. It's not crazy to delight in that not much has changed over the past decade for Alice, is it? More »

See Wonderland Torn Apart In Alice: Madness Returns

Mike Fahey — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:00:00 EST

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After seeing countless teaser trailers and bits of concept art of American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, how does the gameplay footage stack up? It's even better. More »

Alice, You're Looking Much Cheerier!

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:00:00 EST

The Alice games, based on a twisted interpretation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, are normally bleak affairs, full of black skies and fireballs. So what the hell is up with all this blue sky? More »

Art Book For Alice: Madness Returns Publishes In May

Owen Good — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:00:00 EST

A book of the collected artwork from Alice: Madness Returns will be published by Darkhorse Publishing. That's news to fans of the 2000 cult classic; what's news to all of us is the book's May 11 release date. More »

American McGee's Little Red Riding Hood

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:30:00 EDT

While American McGee's Spicy Horse Games is busy at work on the new Alice game, some of the team have enough spare time left over to release cool little iPad applications like Akaneiro. More »

Let's TGS: Day Three

Brian Crecente — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Our past day's coverage of the Tokyo Game Show includes chatting with Peter Molyneux about a potential Fable Movie, chatting with American McGee about the Alice movie and an examination of PixelJunk Lifelike. More »

Alice Creator On Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EDT

During the last decade, American McGee's Alice was picked up by then Disney-owned studio Miramax to be turned into a feature film. The movie didn't happen. Tim Burton, however, did make a version of Alice in Wonderland. More »

American McGee's Alice Has Officially-Licensed Cosplay

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:30:00 EDT

There's cosplay, where kids coble together their own outfits using stitches, fabric and rubber, and then there's cosplay, where an official costume from a game is made commercially available. Like this one, for American McGee's Alice! More »

The White Rabbit Leads Us To Alice: Madness Returns

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:20:00 EDT

A strangely Tweeting member of the family Leporidae teases big news about Alice: Madness Returns, the newly-named action-adventure return of American McGee's Alice, due out next year from Spicy Horse. More »

A Week With Bob

Tim Rogers — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:00:40 EDT

This is how you make friends and influence people in the Information Age (as a writer, anyway): More »

American McGee Returns To Fairy Tale Land

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:30:00 EST

American McGee is a developer with an enormous imagination and...inconsistent execution. Yes, he's the man behind Alice, but he's also the man behind a string of disappointing titles ever since. So it's with uncertainty we look upon his next game. More »

Return of Alice: The Creepy Trailer

Brian Crecente — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

It's hard not to get excited about the return of American McGee's Alice. More »

American McGee Has a Blank Canvas for Alice Sequel

Brian Crecente — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST

Deadly jumping jacks, a vivisected dormouse, and a suicidal Alice were the products of famed designer American McGee's first trip through the looking glass. There's no telling where his second will take us. More »

The Return of American McGee's Alice Set For PC, Consoles

Brian Crecente — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:10 EST

Electronic Arts is teaming up with Spicy Horse and American McGee to create a sequel to Electronic Art's PC classic from 2000. More »

An American (McGee) In Shanghai

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:30:00 EST

Like most stories, this starts with a girl. Rather, this starts with a boy chasing a girl — to Hong Kong. The boy wasn't a boy, but developer American McGee. And the girl? More »

American McGee Tries, Tries Again

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:30:00 EDT

American McGee made Alice. Great game! Then he made a bunch of other games that weren't so great, and the industry kinda moved on. Hopes were high for his latest project - Grimm - but the game's neat premise and stylish visuals were let down by the fact it was bbooorrring. So hopes shouldn't be anywhere near as high for his next project, BaiJiu Racer, a casual MMO racing game (think KartRider) he's currently in the process of pitching. Basing his studio is China is obviously having an effect on the man, as he writes: More »

American McGee Is So Ready To Be Brain Chipped

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EDT

American McGee gained fame for his off-beat titles like American McGee's Alice — that, and for his first name. Dude's been around in the industry, first cutting his teeth over at id Software on games like DOOM. What does he think the next big thing is going to be? Says McGee:

I think we'll continue to see updated interface devices at the forefront of the mini-revolutions in the years to come. Ultimately, I think this is all heading to one uber-revolution in the shape of seamless computer-human interfaces, ala The Matrix. It'll be great to get away from the dated keyboard/mouse, monitor, speakers way of interfacing with our content. As soon as someone starts offering trial "implant" testing — I'll be first in line. I just hope I don't crash my brain, it would take a lifetime to reinstall everything.

And you just thought he made games and had a cool name. Ha!
Grimm interview: American McGee [Guardian] [Pic] More »

Hands On with Grimm

Flynn De Marco — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:20:00 EDT

American McGee’s Grimm has been somewhat of a mystery to me since it was announced. The concept sounded good, I mean anything based on Grimm’s fairy tales always catches my interest. I had been anxious to see exactly what it was going to be like and today I got my chance. It was certainly different than what I expected it might be and way more as well. More »

American McGee Looking For Concept Artist

fdemarco — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:00:00 EDT

American McGee's new Spicy Horse Studios is on the hunt for a "dark cartoon" concept artist for their upcoming game based on the dark side of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The ad calling for talent showed up on McGee's Flickr photo gallery a few days ago and was spotted by Kotakuite, Joe. It outlines the types of styles they are looking for which is dark and spooky as opposed to bloody and gory. The list of applicable influences include the likes of Tim Burton, Tim Biskup, Dave McKean, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and McGee's own Alice. You can send your appropriately creepy samples or links to ken@spicyhorse.com. More »

Epic Forms Chinese Outsourcing Division

kotaku.com — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:40:35 EDT

Epic Games has formed a Shanghai-ased outsourcing division to come up with assets for its games, as well as third-party developers. The idea is to use the skilled communist working class to cheaply make assets that you normally have to pay twice as much for if you hire an American or stinking European. More »

American McGee Loves Wii (Hey, That Rhymes!)

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:21:30 EDT

American game designer American McGee has offered up his two cents on the next-gen war, pitching his tent in Camp Nintendo. Speaking in a yet unpublished interview with game site CVG, the seasoned industry vet says: More »