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.


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 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.


January 27, 2011
Xbox

What In The World Is ‘Combat Focused Movement’?

The people who made the Scribblenauts and Drawn To Life are getting a little closer to explaining how their next game – a shooter, of all things – is unique.


November 24, 2010
News

Why The Scribblenauts People Are Making A Shooter

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October 29, 2010
News

Scribblenauts’ Developer Shoots Out New Game

5th Cell, the developer behind innovative titles like Drawn to Life and Scribblenauts, has revealed its upcoming title. The game is called Hybrid, and it’s a post-apocalyptic third-person shooter.


July 31, 2009
News

Atari Founder Returns To Development With Battleswarm

Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong and founder of Atari, returns to game development with Battleswarm: Field of Honor, a real-time strategy / first-person shooter hybrid he describes as “a mash-up between StarCraft and Starship Troopers.”