How's That Mad Max Game Coming Along, Cory Barlog?

God of War II designer and number one Facts of Life fan Cory Barlog got back to bloggin' today, giving the world an update on his latest project, a video game based on Mad Max. Barlog's whittling away on the game's story with Mad Max director George Miller with the two having apparently "put the final touches on the Mad Max story and game design structure and mechanics." We're envisioning dialog tree choices like "Do you want to saw your own arm off? Y/N." More »

God Of War II Producer Says Kratos "In Good Hands" For III

Cory Barlog, formerly of Sony Computer Entertainment America's Santa Monica studios and God of War II-producing fame, has ended an extended period of blogging silence following his departure from the developer. In today's update to his personal blog, Barlog reveals that his "whole departure from Sony was not exactly the ideal route that I wanted to go, but in the end I think it is the absolute best thing I could have ever done" and gives a status update on the third proper Kratos adventure. More »

God of War II Creator Weighs In On Shadow of the Colossus

Providing some very enjoyable tit-for-tat, God of War II director Cory Barlog provides his own mirrored responses to the questions asked of Shadow of the Colossus director Fumito Ueda in a recent Famitsu interview. He tackles Ueda's more successful game, only briefly touching on ICO. More »

God of War PSP Using New CPU Speed

The upcoming PlayStation Portable entry in the God of War franchise, God of War: Chains of Olympus is the first confirmed title to take advantage of the recently unlocked 333 MHz CPU speed for the Sony handheld. Developer Cory Barlog revealed that the hardware improving changes added for developers in the 3.50 firmware are indeed being used by developer Ready At Dawn, which, I'll assume, is partially responsible for the game looking so damn good. More »

Barlog Downplays God Of War PS3 Talk

God of War II producer Cory Barlog updated his blog with rumor smashing talk of his team's "new project", which, despite rumormongering, he says is not God of War III. (Maybe.) After a quick update on the team's unannounced PLAYSTATION 3 project and God of War for PSP, Barlog starts setting the record straight. More »

Gods of Game: Totilo V. N'Gai

It is, I would think, no big secret that MTV's Stephen Totilo and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal are two of my favorite gaming writers. (Clive Thompson would be the third, in my trinity of game writers)So N'Gai's latest feature over on his Newsweek blog is for me, quite a thing to behold. In Vs. Mode Totilo and N'Gai take one another to task over their feelings on God of War 2.I'll summarize, poorly, their takes on the game here, but you really, really owe it to yourself to go over there and read the whole thing because it's the sort of game critiquing that you will almost never find.Totilo comes down on the side of liking God of War 2 but not really being blown away with it. It is a marvel of game creation, he argues, but it's also very much more of the same. And not just because it's a sequel that uses some of the same sorts of setting and themes, but because the game, like its predecessor, uses "level design to define a character's personality", the personalilty of Kratos. And the sequel relies heavily on this same sort of trick. More »

The Fabulous, Limited Edition Kratos Statue

Sculptor Mark Newman was commissioned to create 100 of these lovely, blood spattered Kratos statues for the team that created the original God of War. Sure, this thing may be ancient in terms of video game news pieces, but it's—to borrow a phrase from Jaffe himself—fuckin' cool. These shots, including some pre-painted sculpts, were just recently added to the artist's deviantART gallery and are further whetting my appetite for the upcoming sequel and our pending interview with GoW2's Cory Barlog. More »

God of War 2 (Action) Figures Coming?

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