Xbox

In Hybrid, Players Wage A New World War Every Couple Weeks

“Why call it Hybrid?” When I asked Hybrid producer Caleb Arseneaux that question, his response was vague. The game has a lot of hybrid qualities, he said. It’s a hybrid of familiar third-person shooter mechanics and new ideas, a hybrid of MMO-style map-conquest and instanced deathmatches…


March 23, 2012
In Real Life

You May Sign Up For The Hybrid Beta Now, Shoot It Out In April

When game developer Jeremiah Slaczka isn’t answering your questions right here on Kotaku, he’s making a multiplayer shooter called Hybrid with his team at development studio 5TH Cell.


March 3, 2012
Xbox

Hybrid To Hold A Beta; Signups Begin After GDC

Hybrid, the third-person online shooter set to release on Xbox Live Arcade this year, will have a public beta with signups beginning shortly after the end of GDC, which is next week.


February 1, 2012
Xbox

Gravity-Defying Xbox Live Shooter Hybrid Is Back And Better Than Ever

After making a big splash during its first showing at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, 5th Cell’s dizzying cover-centric 3D shooter Hybrid was dragged back behind closed doors in May in order to make sure it was the “highest quality title possible”. Let’s see what changed the past eight months have wrought.


December 9, 2011
Mobile

You’ll Say The Darnedest Things When Scribblenauts Remix Meets Siri

The iPhone iteration of 5th Cell’s magical word puzzle game gains voice control on the 4S, integrating Siri’s voice recognition technology in Scribblenauts: Remix to make you say things like “Giant Flying Kielbasa” in mixed company.


October 13, 2011
Mobile

Scribblenauts Is Pretty Good On iOS

The premise and the promise of Scribblenauts always was extraordinary: write any noun (concrete noun, no proper names) into the game and the virtual object it represents will appear.


August 4, 2011
Mobile

What Is Scribblenauts Remix?

Currently, we know Scribblenauts Remix is a new domain registered by Warner Bros (and spotted by “superannuation“), but little else about mysterious Scribblenauts project. But, I wonder what would be summoned if we typed in “iOS” into a Scribblenauts game…


May 13, 2011
Xbox

5th Cell’s Cover Shooter Hybrid Innovates Itself Into 2012

Hybrid, the cover-focused Xbox Live Arcade shooter from the creators of Scribblenauts that made a splash at GDC earlier this year, has been pushed back into 2012, the extra time used to “create the highest quality title possible”.


March 29, 2011
News

Summon Some Scribblenauts Toys For Your Collection

5th Cell’s inventive puzzle-platformer Scribblenauts will be coming to vinyl toy and plushie form later this year, thanks to bobblehead and action figure experts Funko. Maxwell in fabric and vinyl form is now available for pre-order at fine toy resellers.


March 5, 2011
Xbox

Hybrid Turns Shooters Upside Down With A New Way To Deathmatch

The next great innovation in shooting video game bad guys is focused not on our virtual guns, but on our virtual feet.