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Tony Holmsten, formerly of Sweden now living in Japan, has been working as a video game artist since 2002 at two of Sweden's biggest studio's, Battlefield developers DICE and the now-defunct Grin. More »
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In a feature story published today in Sweden, the founders of GRIN lay their studio's precipitous demise at Square Enix's feet, saying the publisher reneged on payments during the development of a Final Fantasy game and saddled them with ridiculous requirements as the project went sour. More »
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Game designer (and musical maestro) Simon Viklund has had some adjusting to do over the past few years, watching a game series he was once a driving force behind end up in the arms of another man. Well, team. More »
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The Swedish game makers behind Bionic Commando Rearmed are back with a new studio and new unannounced game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5519024&view=rss&microfeed=true This is a two-minute, 30-second video said to be of a tech demonstration of "Fortress," the Final Fantasy project GRIN was said to have been working on when the Swedish studio closed. More »
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Our Swedish friends weren't just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP. More »
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Citing unnamed sources, GamesIndustry.biz says the Final Fantasy spinoff codenamed "Fortress" has not died along with original developer GRIN. When the Stockholm studio closed, Fortress had already been taken back by Square Enix. More »
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An anonymous tipster attended GRIN's going-out-of-business sale at the closed studio's offices in Stockholm and snapped several pictures that seem to be of its work on, among other things, the Final Fantasy game it was rumored to be making for Square Enix. More »
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We don't normally enjoy loitering around what is essentially a corpse, but when it's a Final Fantasy game that was in production at a Swedish studio, well, you can excuse us for being curious. More »
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There were the faintest of rumblings about this a couple of months ago, but now that GRIN are officially out of business, it can come to light that they'd been working on...a Final Fantasy game. More »
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While some people cling to the belief that you could wring some enjoyment out of Bionic Commando, like blood from a cold, heavy stone, most people ignored it. Didn't buy it. Why was that, Capcom? More »
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It's official. No more gold teeth will be added to that gruesome smile, as GRIN, the Swedish developer responsible for games like Bionic Commando, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and more is closing its doors due to "an unbearable cashflow situation." More »
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Poor GRIN. For a little while there, people were excited with the games the Swedish devs were putting out! Then they went and released some awful, awful games. And now they're on the brink of oblivion. More »
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Was Bionic Commando Rearmed just too hard for your delicate gaming skills? The same update that brings trophy support to the PlayStation 3 will make the game just a little bit easier. More »
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Despite swinging into retail stores amidst a flurry of hype, nostalgia, and relatively kind reviews, Capcom's Bionic Commando failed to capture big numbers at retail, pushing only 27,000 units in its opening month. More »
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Set in 2016 in a decimated Los Angeles, Terminator Salvation the video game is meant to connect the leap between Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation the movie. More »
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Sweden-based developer GRIN is said to be the latest game studio hit by cutbacks, as multiple sources have told Kotaku that the Bionic Commando and Terminator: Salvation dev has laid off more than 100 staffers. More »
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If you own the PS3 or 360 versions of Terminator Salvation, you're fine. If you own the PC version, however...well, you probably already know the thing doesn't work. More »
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The only thing worse than unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity's extinction? Flying unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity's extinction. More »
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NVIDIA went a little press release crazy this morning, announcing that Sega, Capcom, GRIN, and 8monkey Labs have all turned to NVIDIA's PhysX technology to make their games better. More »
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Here's a new clip showing off how Bionic Commando is looking a little more polished, a little more refined. But what's with the psycho arm at the end? Does it thirst for human blood? More »
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An AP story about game adaptations of movies mentions that the developers of the Terminator Salvation game worked "under the same roof" as the film crew, in hopes of making something that doesn't, well, suck. More »
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Terminator Salvation is sure to explode at the movie theater, finally offering moviegoers an in-depth look at the post-apocalyptic world we've all been hearing so much about. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5186494&view=rss&microfeed=true A sequel to last year's hit film, Wanted: Weapons of Fate allows players to curve bullets around objects in order to take their targets by surprise. So how's that going to work? More »
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I thought I'd seen the last of Wanted after seeing falling asleep during the film — but, nope! Warner Bros. Interactive is determined to do better with the game than they did with the movie. More »
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If you weren't completely turned off to the Terminator franchise after the cinematic sewage that was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the latest issue of GamePro might be of interest to you. More »
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Swedish developer Grin might be working with media company Halcyon, who own the rights to the Terminator franchise, on games based on Philip K Dick's works. We don't know though — Grin's tight lipped. More »
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Capcom's preorder enticement for Bionic Commando gives you everything except a time machine for you to go back to elementary school and be awesome all over again. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5108967&view=rss&microfeed=true "Wanted" hit the big screen in June, and if back then you didn't get enough insultingly stupid movie physics, executed by American Apparel models whose range of emotion goes from "smirk" all the way to "disdain", now you get the chance to do it all yourself in Wanted: Weapons of Fate, the WORLD EXCLUSIVE trailer for which is above. Warning, this trailer actually says "fuck." I guess that makes the game worth buying? Wanted: Weapons of Fate, being developed by GRIN, comes out sometime next year. More »
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People are worried that Bionic Commando might be a bit too hard. I’m one of them. There’s a fear that, because the game’s swinging mechanic is both integral to the game and difficult to master at the same time, a lot of players may not take the time to learn the system and give up on the game. Is this a concern to the development team? No, not really. Making the mechanic hard was the whole point, says GRIN's Ulf Andersson: More »
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Mike played Bionic Commando a few months back, at a Capcom press event. Said it looked great, but had a few problems. I played it for around 20 minutes today, going through a tutorial level and one regular stage from the game, and you know what? It looks great. But has a few problems. More »
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Speaking with Capcom's Ben Judd and GRIN's Ulf Andersson today at TGS, we learned that Bionic Commando - which is playable on the showroom floor - won't be out in 2008. Instead, it's been delayed to early 2009. Or, as they put it, "very eeeeaaaarrrlllyyy 2009". That's the console versions, too; the PC version might be out at the same time, it might not, Andersson saying that version's date is "up to marketing". More »
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Of all the features in Bionic Commando: Rearmed, other than its fundamental game play, nothing bridges 1988 to 2008 like the game’s soundtrack. Its driving, blood-pumping, head-nodding rhythm is instantly recognizable as the music from the NES classic of 20 years ago, and it has won praise from many who have reviewed the game. Simon Viklund, of Stockholm-based developer Grin, did more than personally oversee the soundtrack as the game’s creative director. He composed it himself. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5045411&view=rss&microfeed=true Show of hands, how many of you got Bionic Commando: Rearmed and then went out and found the ROM for the original Bionic Commando and played it? Tooling around on the Bionic Commando blog I found a link to two videos Gametrailers put up last week, splicing gameplay from both titles and highlighting some things you might have missed. More »
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Did you see the movie Wanted or read Mark Millar's comic series and think to yourself, "This would make a nifty video game?" Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment apparently did, and they've tapped Bionic Commando developer GRIN to get the job done. The game picks up where the movie left off, continuing the adventures of sad-sack turned master assassin Wesley Gibson. Expect plenty of curved bullets, slow-motion "assassin's time" events, and an advanced cover system to help deal with the fact the guns don't shoot straight anymore. Here's the first set of screens for the game, available later this year for "consoles and personal computer". Hey, I have one of those! More »
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"Wow I suck," I thought to myself as I sweated through a demo of GRIN and Capcom's upcoming sequel to the beloved Bionic Commando. The nice gentleman from GRIN guiding me through the level was being extremely patient with me, but I sensed he was a bit frustrated as his simple instructions - run, jump, press A to shoot out your arm and then release when the blue hourglass shape appears on the HUD to signify the optimal angle - were consistently met by me falling into a pit, or off the side of a bridge, or any number of places that you could fall. More »
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Swedish developer GRIN, working on Capcom's new Bionic Commando title as well as the PSN/XBLA update of the original one, were entertainingly forthcoming during an industry conference in the Netherlands where they talked about the tough path for an independent developer. More »
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Capcom's big-budget revitalization of its Bionic Commando intellectual property has the potential be outshone by its classic remake, Bionic Commando Rearmed, as far as hardcore fans are concerned, but the new-gen update, the one starring Nathan Spencer, shouldn't be overlooked. Both are graphically gorgeous in their own ways, with Rearmed presenting a tight, clean and colorful 2.5D re-skin, with the all-new Bionic Commando appearing to be an impressive visual achievement, stuffed with attention to detail and smart level design. More »
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Good news! XBLA and PSN title Bionic Commando Rearmed seems like it's getting one step closer to digital shipping. On developer GRIN's official site, the game's Creative Director Simon Viklund blogs: More »
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Western games are really starting to come into their own. No wonder some think that Japan's place in the gaming sun has set. Japan-based-Capcom producer Ben Judd disagrees! While his Bionic Commando title is being developed by a buncha Swedes, he hasn't given up on The Land of the Rising Sun. According to Judd: More »
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