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Creating A Character In Champions Online
7:20AM Mike Fahey | Champions Online executive producer Bill Roper walks us through creating a character in Cryptic’s upcoming massively-multiplayer online superhero game. More »
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1:00AM Mike Fahey | Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. More »
Champions Online Heroically Dated
1:00AM Mike Fahey | Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. More »
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Original Diablo Producer Thinks Diablo III Isn’t Diablo Enough
6:20AM Mike Fahey | Someone fetch original Diablo producer Bill Roper a rainbow unicorn t-shirt, as the former VP of Blizzard North explains that Diablo III just doesn’t feel like a Diablo game. More »
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Hellgate Creator On Why Hellgate Sucked
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Poor Hellgate. It promised so much, and delivered so little. So little, in fact, that it drove developers Flagship Studios out of business. As the mourners file slowly away from the studio’s funeral and make their way towards the free finger food and drinks, it’s time to reflect on just why Hellgate never made it. Creator Bill Roper has a fairly good idea: Some of them were just bad timing in the PC market. The PC market was lousy last year. Some of it was the fact that we were an independent studio. We didn’t have unlimited money, and we had to ship when we had to ship. Part of it was because we overreached, and that was a design problem that was totally our fault. We tried to do too much. We tried to be a standalone game and a free-play game and an MMO and an RPG and a shooter. We were trying to be something for everybody and ended up really not pleasing many people at all…. Sounds about right to us! Bill Roper: ‘Hellgate Wasn’t As Good As It Should Have Been’ [1UP] More »
Hellgate Halloween Xfire Chat
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Xfire is hosting a special chat with the developers of Hellgate: London this Wednesday, which acts as both the launch day for the game as well as International Spooky Day. Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper rounds out the five-man crack team of people who discuss things:pertaining to Hellgate: * Bill Roper, CEO Flagship Studios * Aletheia Simonson, Art Producer * Bill Manegold, Game Programmer * Amir Ebrahimi, Graphics Programmer * Guy Somberg, Audio and Gameplay Programmer The team will discuss the ins and outs of creating the game while touching on the game mechanics, classes, multiplayer, etc. The chat is scheduled for 10PM GMT, which in a real time zone like Eastern is 6PM. Silly made-up time zones. Hellgate: London Page at Xfire [Xfire] More »
