My apologies to the guy I was playing this morning in Letter by Letter. You were assigned to me at random by the game's server. You played "bole," (a synonym for "trunk") which was a very good choice. I didn't have an S to tack onto the end of that and steal the whole thing. I countered with OOZE, you with POOL as we…
Ian Cummings, formerly of Madden NFL, now at social/mobile developer Row Sham Bow, is holding an AMA on Reddit. So, AHA.
We've seen Chinese and Vietnamese "developers" flat out copy successful Flash games, and steal visual assets from titles like Torchlight before. Now they've taken it upon themselves to rip off an actually good Facebook game, Woodland Heroes, a real-time strategy game made by alums of the studio that makes Madden NFL.
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A walk-on running back; a dad who couldn't tell his kids what he did; a fat kid who started going to the gym and never stopped. A guy who came to know his sport's greatest venue in ways some champions never will. The top man at sports video gaming's dominant publisher, and a college student who considers himself a…
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As a 10-year veteran of the Madden NFL series, Ian Cummings has plenty of experience building video games with bears in them.
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Rowshambow, the studio formed by the former studio general manager over EA Sports' Madden and Tiger Woods franchises, is nearing its first release, less than six months after it opened. Woodland Heroes, built by a team with at least a dozen alumni of EA's Tiburon studio, will soon launch on Facebook.
