Tag: Games
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The Unlimited Hyperbole Christmas Special
[ download this episode ] This Christmas I’ve bought Unlimited Hyperbole back for a special episode, during which I threw the microphone into the crowd and asked you, the listeners, to send in submissions telling me the answer to one question. If you could change one thing about your involvement with games, what would it be? I…
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The Deleted Scenes of Disney, Doom and Deus Ex
In 2014 I spoke at VideoBrains in London and shared never-seen-before design documents for a cancelled Deus Ex game. I also talked about the early prototypes of Doom by id Software and warned about the importance of game preservation and documentation. The lecture was based on two articles I wrote for Eurogamer about Ion Storm’s Lost Deus…
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The Year in Review…
February was even more of a celebration than usual this year. Not only did I celebrate my birthday, a Valentine’s Day and a six month anniversary, but I also celebrated a full year in my new job. That means it’s been one full year since I declared with painful melodrama that I was leaving games…
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Preliminal Games…
Update 28/04/14: Finally, I can talk a bit more about the game. It’s titled Fractured Skyline. It’s backed by Crytek. You can read the developer blog here! I always have projects on the go. Sometimes they’re little apps or ebooks; other times they’re podcasts or drunken jokes that get out of hand. Some are secret, some aren’t. Now,…
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A Steam Swap Story…
Steam Trading Cards. When Valve introduced them, my first reaction was to cringe. It seemed a crass new direction for the store and the notion of turning game-playing into a wider card grind was one I didn’t want anything to do with. I sold the first cards I got out of curiosity, made 20p, then…
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