Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor has been doing weekly vlogs over at the Kings and Castles website as a fun way of promoting the game for a while now. And while the first few weeks mainly featured antics such as horse feeding and playing with chickens, he seems to have settled into a preferred formula of “one part info, five parts crazy”. His latest video ninjas in a preview of how formations will work. More »
The developers of Supreme Commander, Dungeon Siege and Demigod have announced their next project (despite Supreme Commander 2 still a few weeks off), the real-time strategy game Kings and Castles. First footage of Chris Taylor feeding a horse below! More »
A European release window yesterday becomes a definitive US release date today for Supreme Commander 2, with a video showing you what you could be playing come March. More »
After he finished delivering medical advice, Gas Powered Games founder and CEO Chris Taylor showed me a little of what Supreme Commander 2 was bringing to the real-time strategy title. More »
The partial facial paralysis I suffered on the Friday before E3 is a bit better today, thanks in no small part to the advice of Gas Powered Games founder and CEO, Chris Taylor. More »
Well isn’t Gas Powered Games busy today? They’ve released a demo for Space Siege, a new battle teaser for their action / RTS Demigod, seen above, and now their very own CEO Chris Taylor has been announced as the August 20th keynote speaker at the GC Developer Conference in Leipzig, Germany. Taylor’s keynote is titled “The Struggle for Independence and the Making of Demigod”, and will deal with…the struggle for independence and the making of Demigod. “Expect a surreal journey into my bizarre and twisted mind”, said Taylor, adding, “Please bring your sense of humour with you”.
Taylor will also be appearing with Dr. Michael Capps and David Perry at a “Best Selling Games” panel on Tuesday of the conference, where they will discuss…best selling games? Hey, at least I gave you a pretty trailer to look at.
Supreme Commander creator Chris Taylor has big ideas for Supreme Commander 2. Ideas involving extra factions. Thing is, he can’t execute on them. Not yet, anyways. Because modern PCs, with their SLis and quad cores and whatnot, just aren’t capable of doing what he wants them to do:
The latest issue of Games For Windows *checks mailbox* should be arriving at subscriber’s doors any day now, but 1UP teases one of the mag’s reveals today, Gas Powered Games’ Demigod. The follow up to Supreme Commander borrows from Defense of the Ancients, bringing a multiplayer-focused (demi)god game that blends role-playing, strategy and action into one tasty supernatural package. Like Defense of the Ancients for Warcraft III, hero focused combat is the name of the game. Only one screen, available at 1UP, is only display, but the coming issue of GFW is promised to have many more.
Demigod Revealed [1UP]
We run developer quotes a lot here on Kotaku, but this one might go down in history as extra special. From Dungeon Siege/Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation’s Chris Taylor, this is what it should feel like to play a video game: When I ride the lawnmower I don’t think about steering and cutting grass… I think about life. I think about work. I think about things I have to do. I recharge – charge my batteries up.
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