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Far Cry 2 development video

Ubisoft have released a wonderful insight into the development of Far Cry 2, a game that is looking to be the best first person shooter (after Mirrors Edge of course) to be released this year.

Visually stunning, and a first person shooter that looks to have the gameplay to back …

Castle Crashers blog and art

The Behemoth, developers of the upcoming XBox Live game Castle Crashers, have recently launched a new blog. The more recent posts have been a bit light on interesting info but for me the early media posts were great.

There have been a whole bunch of posts showing sped up videos …

Play Greenhouse - new indie game publisher

Penny Arcade have decided that “publishers are scum” (paraphrasing there) so they are going to start their own indie publishing business called Greenhouse.

Many indie game devs have tried this, self publishing is a common path, however to really succeed with this sort of thing you need to have …

Women in the games industry

At the end of last year MTV did a bunch of interviews with women in the games industry and I found them quite an interesting read.

Game Girl Advance’s Jane Pinckard Talks Lara Croft, Male vs. Female Gamers
G4’s Morgan Webb Talks ‘X-Play’ And Being A Pin-Up
‘Assassin’s Creed’’s …

Derek Yu - Aquaria interview

The Aquaria promo initiative is in full swing and recently Derek managed to get an interview with 1up about the development of the game.

It’s probably most interesting for developers, which would include me, so I’m posting it anyway :) The interview being by 1up should give Aquaria a nice …

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