AJ Glasser, Author at Kotaku

Bungie’s Hiring And Here’s How They’ll Own You

Bungie producer Allen Murray won’t say a word about how the studio’s new project is going — but he will tell you how they’re getting it done. Murray first joined the team at the tail end of Halo 2‘s development. He described it as a “big disaster.” Everyone who’s ever worked in production knows that…

By AJ Glasser Published March 25, 2009

GDC Panel: Fulfilling the Massively-Single Player Promise – How’d We Do?

Forget Metacritic scores – the real test of Spore’s popularity is how many people show up to their talk when Suda 51 is on a panel across the hall at the same time. Doesn’t help that he has a new game coming out, while Spore launched last year. Still, the online community for the game…

By AJ Glasser Published March 25, 2009

Yosuke Hayashi Mans Up, Moves Out Of Itagaki’s Shadow

Tecmo’s redundant announcement of Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 was more than just a chance to talk about online co-op; it was Producer Yosuke Hayashi‘s chance to come out of his ex-boss’s shadow. Tomonobu Itagaki has always been critical of Sigma. He even said that a Ninja Gaiden II Sigma version would be a “loss of…