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Al Lowe Says Google Hurts Adventure Games

For those who grew up in the early days of PC adventure gaming, Al Lowe needs no introduction. To those whom need such an introduction, Crecente is coming by your house later to use his feared hair whip fatality. Anyway, here's what the point and click adventure god had to say about developing adventure games in the modern gaming world:

No, not futile, but not mainstream either.
He continues:

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11:40 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
9,730 views, 94 comments

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COD4 Used "Best Coders" for PS3 Version

COD4 has been universally heralded for general awesomeness, but even more impressively, the game pulled off this stunt for both the Xbox 360 and PS3. And while programmers are certainly getting better on Sony's platform, Infinity Ward studio head Vince Zampella explains to PSM3 magazine that they weren't taking any chances:

We had our best programmers on the PS3 [version of Call of Duty] and it shows...
Burn! I wouldn't want to be an Xbox 360 programmer at Infinity Ward at the moment. Because, no matter what Zampella's been telling you behind closed doors, you are not his "favowit wittle progwammer."

Infinity Ward stresses the importance of platform focus [gamesradar]

10:40 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By Mark Wilson
6,802 views, 131 comments

Latest by n/a: OMG most of you guys here are so freakin retarded it's not even funny. I guess all of you guys caught the "console fanboy fever" a while back. IW didn't pay any extra $ to get devs that coded for more »