In Real Life

Who Needs Flower When You’ve Got LittleBigPlanet 2

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The first LittleBigPlanet was home to crude recreations of various old-school games. LittleBigPlanet 2 can do a whole lot more.


March 15, 2010
News

Flower Creators: No New Games This Year, Intrigued By Move

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That Game Company’s Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, saw their team’s game Flower nominated for several Game Developer’s Choice Awards, winning for Best Downloadable. We talked about their future, Pokemon, and, since they made motion-games for the PS3, PlayStation Move.


January 20, 2010
News

And The Nominees For The 10th Annual GDC Awards Are…

The nominations are in for the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, with Uncharted 2, Flower and Assassin’s Creed II dominating the nominating.


January 5, 2010

Kotaku AU Games Of 2009: #4

Kotaku AU

The countdown of my personal picks for the best games of 2009 is now entering the home straight. Last week I revealed the first half, now we’re moving into the top five. At #4 we dream of what lies outside our dreary apartment window…


December 11, 2009
In Real Life

DVR Alert: Spike Televises Top 2009 Indie Developers Tonight

Spike TV’s second-annual special celebrating indie games airs on Spike tonight. Host Geoff Keighley shared a copy of the show early with Kotaku and it does indeed feature visits with the makers of Osmos, ‘Splosion Man, Trials HD and Flower.


June 16, 2009

ThatGameCompany And The Beauty Of Taking Risks

“Everything is intense the first time you experience it,” says Jenova Chen, the 27-year-old creative director at Santa Monica-based studio ThatGameCompany.


March 5, 2009
In Real Life

Review-O-Gram: Flower Reviewed in Song

Time for more singing game reviews. This time we get to hear about Playstation 3′s Flower in song.


February 12, 2009

Frankenreview: Flower

Following up on their success with the PlayStation Network favourite Flow, thatgamecompany returns to the PlayStation 3 with Flower, a game that attempts to capture the poetry of a flower petal riding the wind.


February 11, 2009

Flower Micro-Review: All We Are Is Dust In The Wind

Flower is an odd proposition. Just like thatgamecompany’s last title, flOw, it’s not really a game. It’s a relaxant, suited more for a 3am slump on the couch than a 3-hour session after work.


January 20, 2009
News

Flower Blooms Official Release Date

Flower, the poetic new PlayStation Network titles from the creators of PSN favourite flOw has sprouted a release date, popping out of the ground in early February.