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Zeno Clash

Don’t know much about this one apart from that it looks wonderful… and very different from your typical first person shooter. To me it has a very Oddworld feel, with the bow reminding me of Strangers Wrath. The graphics are heavily stylised with a very comic book feel to them.

Visually …

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 …

Introversion anthology

Introversion, one of the better known independent game dev houses, have teamed up with Valve (and Steam) to release a bundle of all of their games, Uplink, Darwinia, and Defcom, for the princely sum of $29 - which is a bargain. However for the week before Christmas this …

Half Life 2 and Portal combined

The amazing Portal has only been out a week or so, and already game hackers have added the Portal “weapon” into Half Life 2. They are even nice enough to have blogged about it, explaining how you can make the changes for yourself.

The Portal game is puzzletastic (yes - …

Team Fortress 2 interview

Rock Paper Shotgun have got an interview (part two here) with the people from Valve talking all about the upcoming Team Fortress 2. I love these developer insights and these ones are particularly interesting.

Valve have a pretty unique development process and not relying on publishers means that they …

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