assorted scoopery
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Gaming Secrets: The Power Brokers Behind Some Of Gaming’s Top People
When Ken Levine made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that Irrational Games was shutting down and only a small group of employees would be retained as he migrated to a new venture, one thing came to mind — the 2008 contract negotiations between Levine and Take-Two.
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Gaming Secrets: Snake Plissken Almost Had A Video Game To Rival Metal Gear
A former Namco developer recently uploaded this milestone video of early footage from a cancelled Snake Plissken game that was in development at the Namco’s Bay Area studio, developers of the first Dead to Rights and innovative cover shooter Kill Switch, in 2003 and 2004.
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Hollywood’s Long History Of Mostly Failing To Make Video Games
As mainstream video games strived to be more cinematic and as gaming emerged as a major source of entertainment revenues, it was only a matter of time until the talent from the film industry would attempt to get in on the action. Such a thing has indeed happened numerous times. For whatever reason, it typically…
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Gaming Secrets: Hints Of A Next-Gen Xbox TV Strategy, Multiplayer Quantic Dream
On LinkedIn, a Microsoft engineer says that he is working as part of the Video Cognition team “on cool new features for the next Xbox” under NDA [non-disclosure agreement] — something that could be more revealing than it appears to be. (He also contributed to video processing efforts for video content with containing DRM, providing…