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The development team at the San Diego studio of Rockstar, best known for creating the Western-themed Red Dead Redemption, have posted a number of job ads which suggest that they are putting together a team to work on a new open-world game.
Three new job advertisements at Gamasutra are linked to programmers who will ... |
7 February 2012
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Thief 4 is the next big project from the Eidos Montreal development studio but the team has not been very forthcoming with details about the game so the intrepid information finders at the NeoGAF forums have dug up some tidbits of their own.From a number of CVs taken from LinkedIn the forum users have managed to find... |
18 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Prototype 2 might be a few months away but the developers working on the open world action game are already excited about how players will handle the central quest of the game, finding and confronting Alex Mercer, the hero of the first Prototype installment.Matt Armstrong, who is a design director working on Prototyp... |
12 January 2012
21:41 GMT |
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Brendan McNamara has been blamed by some for the disappearance of the Team Bondi development studio and for the problems that blamed the development of their one release, L.A. Noire, and the former leader seems ready to accept at least some of the blame.Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine as part of a bigge... |
4 January 2012
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J.E. Sawyer, one of the leading developers working at Obsidian and the project director on Fallout: New Vegas, has released a new mod for the game based on his own preferences when it comes to experiencing the game.The mod increases the weapons and armor numbers and limits the level cap and the rate at which the play... |
30 December 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision has released a new developer diary for its upcoming Prototype 2, with the main focus being the side activities that the player can take on in the game.
The video shows how the main character will be able to discover new case files and missions that he can perform in order to get a ran... |
20 December 2011
02:20 GMT |
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The big subjects for all Grand Theft Auto fans might be the possible features and launch date for the fifth full game in the series at the moment but the developers of the franchise working at Rockstar are eager to teach them more about its roots.As part of a larger feature which celebrates ten years since the launch... |
19 December 2011
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Borderlands: The Fallen, a novel based around the well known video game from developer Gearbox, will be launched tomorrow, allowing fans of the series to get more information on the game world and meet some characters that might make an appearance in the coming sequel.The Kindle version of the novel will sell for 9.9... |
21 November 2011
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I have reached Windhelm for the first time and I can feel my weary bones aching for some fire and some good drink and food, preferably in the company of a bard and some townsfolk. After some R&R I also plan to visit the local merchants and dump some of the useless loot that clogs my inventory and see if maybe they ha... |
17 November 2011
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Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced that its latest release, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has managed to sell more than 3.5 million copies across all platforms during its first 48 hours of presence on store shelves.7 million units of the game have been shipped to retailers during the first week of t... |
17 November 2011
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Saints Row: The Third might just have been launched in the United States but the developers at Volition are already thinking about the future and whether they might start work on another game in the franchise.Speaking to VG247 Scott Phillips, who is the lead designer at Volition working on Saints Row: The Third, has ... |
16 November 2011
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The fact that Batman: Arkham City is an open world game was a result of the story choices made for the game and not an arbitrary decision from the developers at Rocksteady.Sefton Hill, who is the game director who worked on Batman: Arkham City, has stated, “When we started the game we didn’t sit down and ... |
27 October 2011
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One of the main issues that an open world role playing game developer needs to address is how to handle the fact that the players are evolving and becoming stronger while the game world around them is static.Some games have enemies that level up while others choose to restrict access to some areas but the developers ... |
25 October 2011
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We don't know yet what Rockstar has planned for the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series but one of the original creators of the franchise says that freedom and good stories are something that the series will always try to deliver.Speaking to Gamespot Dan Houser, who is one of the two brothers who hav... |
24 October 2011
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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has talked about open world games, seeing as how he and his team have masterminded some of the most successful titles in the genre, and where the industry is going in the next 10 years.When you talk about open world games, Rockstar is the benchmark, as its recent titles, from Grand Thef... |
20 October 2011
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Rockstar Games will celebrate this Saturday, October 22, the 10-year anniversary of one of its most successful titles, Grand Theft Auto III, and has released a touching video tribute to the open world title before its upcoming release on mobile platforms.
Rockstar has always been linked to the Grand Theft Auto fra... |
20 October 2011
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RAGE will soon arrive on the consoles of gamers all over the world and the developers at id Software are trying to make sure that players approach the game right, talking about how choice is handled and why the game is not actually open world.Speaking to Gamasutra as part of a bigger interview Todd Hollenshead, who i... |
5 October 2011
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A new job ad from the Sony Santa Monica studio seems to indicate that the development team there is done with its work on God of War and is now working on a completely new game universe which will use the open world structure.It seems that the Santa Monica studio is looking a senior level designer who will be working... |
23 September 2011
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Yakuza 4, to a Western gamer like myself, is definitely an odd beast, as you can hardly tell that this open world, Grand Theft Auto-style game, but without the Auto part and based on the Japanese mob called the Yakuza, could manage to attract millions of fans in its native country and a small yet fiercely loyal follo... |
13 April 2011
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One of the biggest surprises of this year in gaming so far has been the impact of the trailer for Dead Island, a zombie-based open-world video game that is under development at Techland and will be published by Deep Silver. The studio behind the trailer is Axis, an animation-oriented outfit based in the United Kingd... |
22 February 2011
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Ibiza can be beautiful, especially late in the afternoon, when shadows lengthen and night sneaks in, almost begging the player to slow down a bit and take in the sight, maybe step out of the car with the misses and take a few pictures that will later wind up on Facebook and draw a lot of gasping comments. That's... |
20 February 2011
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 is a complicated game, aiming to deliver some pretty tough racing events while also schooling the player in the finer points of social interaction and wealth accumulation, with the beautiful Spanish island of Ibiza serving as the backdrop.And, after playing a few hours of it, it's hard to ... |
10 February 2011
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Undead Labs, as the developer, and Microsoft Game Studios, as the publisher, have announced that they are working on a new zombie-based Xbox Live Arcade game, which has the codename Class3 and will start off as a sort of open-world adventure with a lot of action elements, whose ultimate aim is to get enough players t... |
8 February 2011
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We have known since Gamescom last year that the developers at GSC Game World are working on a new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game, but until know fans of the universe have not received any clear information on the mix between adventure and exploration.
Now the developers have put up a pretty big Questions & Answers sess... |
13 January 2011
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The developers at Naughty Dog that are working on the upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception have offered details on the structure of the new PlayStation 3 exclusive adventure, saying that they are not planning to deliver a thoroughly open-world adventure but a linear game which allows the player to explore and... |
29 December 2010
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The next game in the popular Tomb Raider franchise might see its main heroine, Lara Croft, explore an open world, in the form of a Japanese island, which would be a first for the action adventure series.Seeing as how recent Tomb Raider titles haven't achieved the sales success that Eidos and its new owner, Squar... |
21 September 2010
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An analyst watching the video game industry has revealed that L.A. Noire has been again delayed and that Rockstar Games appears not to have yet shown the video game to any retailer chains, despite the fact that it was set to come out at some point during the fall.Evan Wilson, who is an analyst working for Pacific Cre... |
31 August 2010
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GSC Game World has finally announced that it is working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. The company has also said that it is building a new technology for the game and not using the CryEngine 3.0 as has been previously rumored. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has slowly become quite a big hit on the PC gaming scene, selling no less t... |
16 August 2010
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Publisher Atari and developer Eden Games have announced that Test Drive Unlimited 2 has been delayed. The title will now ship at the beginning of 2011. The reason for this postponement is that the Eden needs more time to finish the multiplayer component of this new installment in the Test Drive series. Atari has deci... |
12 August 2010
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Activision has announced during its a recent earnings call regarding the first six months of 2010 that True Crime: Hong Kong has been delayed into 2011 because of quality issues. The game is being developed by United Front Games, the studio behind ModNation: Racers, and it is an open world action adventure that allow... |
6 August 2010
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Crackdown 2 is nearing its launch date and the developers are promising that they have created an open world video game using previous titles in the genre as inspiration, with Grand Theft Auto from Rockstar being the main reference, but also adding disruptive elements new to the concept, the aim being to disorient th... |
7 July 2010
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Mafia II might have been delayed quite a few times but it seems that all the extra development time does not mean the team at 2K Czech working on the gangster-themed title managed to get in all the content they initially thought of.The developers appear to have set their quality standards pretty high and decided to c... |
1 July 2010
16:31 GMT |
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One of the most frustrating elements of Red Dead Redemption are those missions that take the horse away from the player in order to ask him to drive around using the carriage, meaning that players will be attacked on the road and that they will have to take out a respectable number of enemies while the vehicle lu... |
28 June 2010
16:41 GMT |
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I cared for John Marston and for his family even though while playing as this character, I did quite a few things modern morality would consider as being bad. I killed quite a few people in order to take their valuables, I scared a lot of them away from things I needed, killed soldiers of a legitimate government to a... |
25 June 2010
18:41 GMT |
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If there's one thing I deeply hate in Red Dead Redemption, it is the dark. Consider that in the first decade of the XX century, there was precious little public lightning in the West and not even the East Coast did much better.When it’s dark, wolves have a way of getting close fast and nipping at my heels ... |
18 June 2010
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2K Games has announced that it is planning to put together a Collector's Edition for Mafia II, their upcoming open world gangster videogame, which will be launching for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC. The game is expected to be out on August 24 in North America and three days later in Europe and the ... |
27 May 2010
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One of the big launches before the long summer gaming gap is Red Dead Redemption, the Western themed shooter coming from Rockstar, the development studio which is best known for publishing the highly successful Grand Theft Auto series. The game is now out on the United States market, with the launch date for Europe s... |
19 May 2010
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THQ has announced that it plans to release a new Red Faction title in the period between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2011, which is fiscal 2011, while a new videogame in the Saints Row franchise will be coming sometime after April 1, 2011. These wide release schedules appear in a conference call attended by top THQ p... |
5 February 2010
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Microsoft has confirmed that Crackdown 2 will be released in the first half of 2010, adding another big videogame name to the already pretty full schedule for the period, which includes titles like God of War III, Heavy Rain and possibly Starcraft II. It will be interesting to see how Crackdown 2 manages to perform i... |
23 December 2009
03:42 GMT |
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The last game released by Artificial Mind and Movement was an over-the-top, mercenary-revenge action title entitled Wet. Filled with gratuitous violence and foul language, the title didn't really manage to stand out with anything, but wasn't a disaster either. A2M, as it's better know, is now working o... |
10 December 2009
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As many years before it, 2009 has a lot of high-quality video games scheduled to appear at the end of it, during the fall season, just in time for them to fill up the store shelves and to attract the eyes of anyone who wants to buy them as a present for the winter holidays, which will be just around the corner. Out ... |
7 July 2009
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Open world games are pretty standard these days, with many developers trying to place players in the shoes of ordinary people who have an interesting story. But sometimes, game creators spice it up a bit, and give every gamer what he wants: a super-powered character who can cause havoc in the world around him with a ... |
19 June 2009
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Radical Entertainment has been working hard recently. Its upcoming Prototype videogame is set to launch this summer and, after a delay, the free running title featuring a morphing protagonist looks really interesting.But Radical might have even bigger plans once it ships Prototype, as several sources have been quoted... |
27 April 2009
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Open-world games are the latest fashion these days, courtesy of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, which practically wrote the book on how characters could interact in an open-world environment and, eventually, set up their own criminal network that would completely favor them. But even though GTA is the bench... |
17 April 2009
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Open-world games are the latest fashion these days, courtesy of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, which practically wrote the book on how characters could interact in an open-world environment and, eventually, set up their own criminal network that would favor them completely. But even though GTA is the bench... |
10 April 2009
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Sandbox adventure games have been, for quite some time, synonymous with Rockstar's very popular Grand Theft Auto franchise. Since GTA III, a first 3D installment in the series, people have always weighed other titles against it, with the most common result being that these titles couldn't compare to it. Wit... |
6 February 2009
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No More Heroes was a game that really sparked a lot of the hardcore gamers' interest in the Nintendo Wii. It placed players in the shoes of Travis Touchdown, a character who needed to explore an open world on foot, or on his trusty motorcycle, in order to fight with the top ten assassins. However, even though t... |
29 December 2008
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I've been under the spell of Far Cry 2 lately. After having played it on the Xbox 360 to see how the control element felt, I switched to the PC and I am currently in the process of listening to the creepy communications tower voice in order to assassinate everyone I can. But I've been thinking that the game... |
2 December 2008
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Louis-Pierre Pharand, who is a producer on Far Cry 2, talked to Eurogamer and its readers and revealed that the game would have four distinct multiplayer modes. The now classic options of Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch will be in the game, with the entire 50 square kilometers of the world or just a portion of it ava... |
23 September 2008
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It's going to be a bumpy ride going into the fall release schedule. Ubisoft has finally revealed a clear release date for its upcoming shooter frenzy called Far Cry 2 and the game is set to debut in close proximity to other eagerly waited titles like Dead Space, Resistance 2 and Fallout 3. The new Ubisoft shoote... |
8 September 2008
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