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The 10 Year Console Lifecycle

Forget about your Xbox 720 or PS4, forget about having to drop another 400 dollars 4 years from now and forget about what you used to call a console generation. Pick up your system of choice now, because both of them will be around for ten years.
Let’s face it: game development is expensive. Your average […]

March 22nd, 2008 | Scott | 1 comment | Continued
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Phil Harrison: Genius or Dunce?

On March 3rd, we received official confirmation that Phil Harrison had stepped down from his position as creative director for Sony Computer Entertainment, to take up the presidency of Infogrames, a French publishing house. This begs the question of why he would leave a successful corporation, one at the beginning of a positive PR swing, […]

March 8th, 2008 | Scott | 0 comments | Continued
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Tell Me a Story: Games with Powerful Narratives

In video games, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But is a video game a video game if I put down the controller and watch a story unfold? Mr. Kurosawa, arguably Japan’s greatest Director and storyteller is telling us that although film incorporates aspects from other mediums it still has […]

February 16th, 2008 | Will | 0 comments | Continued