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Eurogamer today hosted another of their LiveText chat sessions, this time around putting Far Cry 2 producer Louis-Pierre Pharand under the spotlight to answer questions about the fiery sequel. During the chat, Pharand spoke a bit about the multiplayer modes included in the game. The standard Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch modes will be joined by Capture The Diamond, which is like capture with flag only you're tasked with capturing a magical mushroom diamond instead, and a variation on VIP they've christened Uprising. He also discussed persistency, which will apparently be contained to the match or series of matches you are involved in, much like Shadowrun. More »
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Tucked into a wide-ranging interview with IGN is this nugget from Cervat Yerli, the CEO of Crytek, developer of Crysis: More »
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Reader maxax caught an interview with Hideo Kojima in Spiegel Online, the website for German-language Der Speigel, one of Europe's leading mainstream news magazines. Maxax translated it to English on his blog and so we offer up to you here, too. More »
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As the GTA IV launch is once again trotted out as a controversy flashpoint, there's one thing the gaming audience tends to agree on: This game is not for children. Of course, just how zealous they are about enforcing such a mandate varies wildly. More »
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When you think spider's webs, you think delicate filaments shimmering in dusty air. Spider-Man's webs, though, are more like woven iron fortresses — just like the one we slammed up against trying to squeeze Activision for more details on the just-announced Spider Man: Web of Shadows. More »
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Rockstar co-founder and VP Dan Houser, notably reluctant to give long interviews, especially about himself, sat down with Variety's Ben Fritz for a 90 minute interview, and from the looks of it, nearly all is transcribed in Fritz's blog on Variety. More »
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This morning we reported on SEC filings (yes, there have been enough SEC filings to wallpaper my apartment this week) that revealed that Electronic Arts has amended its offer to purchase Take-Two. The previous offer expired today, but EA's back for round two, extending its deadline to May 16th. Although some analysts have speculated that EA would need to raise its offer in order to cinch this acquisition, the same SEC filing also shows that some change has actually been shaved off of the previous bid of $26 per share - the new bid is $25.74 per share. More »
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Vince D. Weller, lead designer of indie RPG Age of Decadence, is pissed. Really, really pissed. Rock, Paper, Shotgun posted several good interviews this week, but it was this impressively vitriolic entry that really caught my attention. Anger over poor reception of a turn based battle system, a discussion of RPG design history, and a few well-placed insults aimed at the Rock, Paper, Shotgun readership just for good measure - well, it makes for a fascinating read: More »
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Gamasutra has kindly compiled five complete interviews with members of the South Korean gaming industry to shed light on where Korea is now and where they'll be in the future. During the GStar game show in Seoul, Gamasutra got Stephen Lee (Nexon), Sang Woon Yoon (Webzen), Yoo-Ra Kim (T3), Ji Young Park (Com2Us), and Dae Hwan Lim (Microsoft) to talk about just about everything under the sun. The complete interviews span a daunting 21 pages; despite the diversity of opinions, there were a lot of commonalities: More »
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I mentioned a week or so back that Playboy had an intriguing feature on their latest magazine that talks to a collection of game developers about some of the deeper issues involved in creating and expanding video games and play. More »
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Nexon - the Korean company responsible for MapleStory and KartRider - has been expanding (quietly) beyond its home borders. With MapleStory already in the US and KartRider due to launch sometime in the near future, Nexon's been making a quiet-but-succesful entry into Western markets. Worlds In Motion has an interview up with Min Kim of Nexon America talking about MapleStory, KartRider, the Nexon recipe for success, and what's next for the company. Not surprisingly, great swaths of his thoughts are pretty sensible (in a market glutted with free-to-play games, yours better be fun or else no one's going to play it), but sensible and game company plans do not always go hand in hand. More »
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Gamasutra has an interesting (short) interview up with Stephen Dinehart, "narrative designer" for Relic Entertainment, the Vancouver arm of THQ. The topic? Well, Company of Heroes in general - more specifically, narrative design, violence, and historical accuracy (or lack thereof). I've read a fair chunk of thoughts on narrative design in an academic context, so it's nice to read how people think the stuff is being applied in real-world situations. Dinehart hopes that these sorts of games aren't just excuses to shoot stuff, and feels that his narrative crafting helps facilitate a more mature examination of violence: More »
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In an infuriating interview with arch-nemesis site IGN, Halo novelist Eric S. Nylund starts off with a bold-faced lie... More »
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Electronics Arts buys DICE, makers of the Battlefied series. Then Computer And Video Games comes along and conducts this interview with Marcus Nilsson, senior producer of Battlefield: 2142, and he says this: More »
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By Florian Eckhardt. More »
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IGN's PSP limb reached out to snag Rockstar Leeds boss Gordon Hall and ask him some questions about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Hall managed to spill some pretty exciting new details about the game. More »
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Over at Game Set Watch, they have a great interview with the creator of an even greater project: an original Legend of Zelda game programmed for TI-83+ Graphical Calculators. More »
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Before Crecente pulled his pink heart panties straight over his head and started shrieking about the affrontery of Dead Rising's Otis through one of the frilly leg holes, there was another zombie game that was all the rage: Resident Evil 4. Except it didn't really have zombies in it, but no matter. More »
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Faith Naked, the girl behind the Top 10 Hottest Guys in Gaming List, was interviewed over at Destructoid, one of our favorite sites. This is not news. But I found this quote from Faith disingenuous enough to comment upon: More »
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Ken Levine, the smartest writer in video games, gave an interview to Through the Looking Glass fansite SShock2.com about Irrational's upcoming "art deco underwater utopia participant-evolution inspired civil war" survival horror FPS, Bioshock. Subjects cover the evolution of Bioshock's story, art deco game design, the themes of horror in games, and morality in gaming. More »
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There is a wee tiny interview with British fantasy and science fiction author Terry Pratchett over on CVG, and despite it being bafflingly brief (perhaps he began cussing uncontrollably after that point and had to be restrained), it's nice to hear from the ol' Hat n' Beard. More »
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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in this Eurogamer interview, asserting that his company is from the future and therefore makes superior games than competitors: More »
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GamePolitics has an exclusive interview with the Oblivion modder who made it possible, through a series of hacks, to play the game surrounded by topless NPCs. The ESRB found out and slapped a new M rating on the previously T-rated RPG. More »
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When I posted about Part One of Evil Avatar's interview with Randy Smith, some were kind enough to take time out of combing bear grease into their Van Dycks to write a highly substantial number of words pointing out the fact that I seemed to have completely misread the interview. More »
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FiringSquad has an in-depth article in which they quiz mainstream media outlet writers about games writing for the average joe: More »
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Earthworm Jim creator Doug Tennapel is the sort of man I admire, while I simultaneously fear the possibility that I will end up like him. He goes into detail about this duality in a new interview over on Gamasutra. More »
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