Quick, pitch us two games that you would want mixed together for a single release. Really think about it, what comes to mind? Is it better than Deus Ex meets Sonic the Hedgehog? Size Five Games (formerly Zombie Cow) hopes not. The team behind indie adventure gems Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentleman, Please! […]
Suddenly all these sackboy costumes are making sense. In a recent retrospective panel on the company, the founders of Media Molecule revealed that the original plan for LittleBigPlanet was to release the game with a free to play market strategy. Then-Sony executive Phil Harrison first approached the Media Molecule team with the concept, although it […]
No doubt inspired by the whistle-blowers at Team Bondi, Glenn Watson (ex-Head Studio Programmer at Gameloft Auckland) has testified to similarly bleak conditions at his former company. According to an interview with Watson on Games.On.Net, these “dangerous” working conditions included 12-14 hour work days, 7-day work weeks, and vague worker entitlement benefits that would often […]
Simon Carter, co-creator of Fable and co-founder its original development studio Big Blue Box, has left his position as Lead Technical Director at Lionhead Studios. Carter is now apparently pursuing “lots of new opportunities” in digital download games, although no concrete plans have been announced.