“We looked at Idle Minds, the makers of Pain,” THQ Digital UK’s creative director Don Whiteford tells me when I asked him where he looked for examples of developers that understand digital downloadable games. “They’re listening to the customers, they’re learning and they’re feeding it back to make it an enjoyable experience and keep that…
Celebrating a full decade of development this year, Frogwares has become one of the largest independent game development studios in the Ukraine. Though they’re known for their multi-platform adventure titles starring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, their new ventures into casual games and even an MMORTS are just getting the momentum they deserve. We paid…
Celebrating 11 years of hard work at one of the fastest growing publishers in the game industry this month, Pete Hines, Bethesda’s vice president and head of PR and marketing, has grown his solo operation into a globally operating department. Right before diving into the recent launch of Fallout: New Vegas, Hines took the time to…
Two weeks ago, the German based adventure game studio Animation Arts released Lost Horizon, their newest adventure title. Animation Arts’ managing director, Marco Zeugner, (middle) talked with us about how the company was founded, the challenges of conquering the German adventure market and why it’s smart to remain small.
Showing off the latest iteration of their first third-person shooter, Relic Entertainment’s game director Raphael van Lierop and principal designer Quinn Duffy were measuring reactions to the latest pre-alpha footage of Warhammer 40K: Space Marine they were showing off to press. We took up their valuable 15 minute break between a couple of press presentations to…
Not every student team that finishes their final year in college is as fortunate to have a game picked up by a major publisher. But Stunlock Studios got a golden ticket from Norwegian online game publisher Funcom and is now working tirelessly on their first commercial game called Bloodline Champions, a multiplayer online battle arena…
Krome Studios recently celebrated the release of their newest downloadable title Blade Kitten last week. Krome Studios’ Creative Director and creator of Blade Kitten Steve Stamatiadis took some time to talk to us about the challenges his team faced pitching the game to Atari, moving from a comic book concept to an actual game and tackling…
If it’s up to Irrational Games’s lead artist Shawn Robertson, breaking out of the world of Rapture with Bioshock: Infinite was a huge blessing. “Bioshock is bigger than Rapture,” Robertson explained after his presentation to the press. “When we were looking at creating Bioshock Infite, there were no sacred cows for us. We really wiped…
If it’s up to PopCap’s co-founder and chief creative officer Jason Kapalka, we would never the see inside of a retail store in the near future and download all our games from home. At least that’s what he’s been doing the past couple of years. Readying up to launch a new social game called Zuma…
When Ubisoft first announced the Rayman: Raving Rabbids for the Wii in 2006, no-one would have foreseen the birth of a massive party game franchise. Being with the Ubisoft Paris team since Raving Rabbids 2, game designer Antione Henry tells Gamesauce about his team’s lucky break to get an extra year of development for their…