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