Category: Games
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The Unlimited Hyperbole Podcast
Unlimited Hyperbole is a games podcast I created with Harriet Jones and which ran from 2012 to 2015. The show was created to explore the games industry in a new and provocative way, using a series of creative restrictions. Every season of Unlimited Hyperbole features five episodes, each approaching the central topic in a different way. Episodes are 15 minutes…
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Journalism: The Deleted Scenes Series
As a journalist I’ve been lucky enough to broach a number of big exclusives and work on some great articles, but the ones I’m most proud of collect, preserve and report how games change during development. I work with universities, museums and the original developers to uncover the design documents for these games, then usally write…
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Video Games You Will Never Play
It includes analysis of over 200 cancelled games and projects, including Jade Empire 2, the port of Halo to Nintendo DS and the Sleeping Giants RPG created by Warren Spector’s Junction Point Studios.
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The Deleted Scenes of Deus Ex: Insurrection
In 2014 I spent six months researching two cancelled Deus Ex games that had been in production at Ion Storm Austin before it collapsed. Neither of the games were announced at the time, but with help from the Dolph Briscoe Archive at the University of Texas I was able to uncover design documents, concept art…
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The Deleted Scenes of Thief 4: Dagger of Ways
In 2015 I gave a lecture at Videobrains in London about my exclusive research into a cancelled Thief game that was in development at Ion Storm before it’s collapse almost a decade previously. The lecture was based on an article I wrote for Eurogamer, in which I interviewed a developer who worked on the project…
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