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Assassin’s Creed Producer Raymond To Lead Ubisoft Toronto

8:20AM Michael McWhertor | The recently announced Ubisoft Toronto studio has a new boss, Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond, Ubisoft announced today. She’ll be overseeing the new studio, focusing on “AAA games and new intellectual properties.” More »

So, Did Any Gaming Types Make AskMen’s ‘Top 99 Women’ List?

4:00PM Luke Plunkett | And by “Top 99″, they don’t mean the most eminent minds in their respective fields. So, with 2008’s list all done, did any games types make it? And by games types, we mean real people. More »

Jade Raymond Presents Hideo Kojima With MTV’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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Jade’s Next Game – I Am Alive

3:40AM Mike Fahey | So what’s Ubisoft’s Jade Raymond been working on since Assassin’s Creed has come and gone? According to Gamekyo (formerly Jeuxfrance) she’s been getting busy on I Am Alive, a survival game for the PC, 360, and PS3 from French developer Darkworks of Cold Fear fame and Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare infamy. Supposedly to be revealed at E3 next week in a lengthy video presentation, I Am Alive is a tale of survival following an earthquake that decimates Chicago. While the game will be a first-person affair, don’t expect to be shouldering a bazooka. The point of view is meant to immerse you in the experience, similar to what EA is doing with Mirror’s Edge. It’s not quite official confirmation, but Gamekyo has the trademark document for the game over at their site, so there’s a pretty good chance this is a solid rumour. Still, even a solid rumour is still a rumour. The only thing that really strikes me as odd about the whole thing is I known people from Chicago, and no piddling city-destroying earthquake could take them down. Jade Raymond working on I Am Alive [Gamekyo] More »

Jade? Jade?! No, No. What Is Patrice Working On?

2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | While others focused on Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond before Assassin’s Creed, we were always wonder what the game’s Creative Director Patric Desilets was doing, how his beard was and when he was going to accept our friend requests. In a recent interview with game site Game Daily, Ubisoft honcho Yves Guillemot says this about Patrice: More »

Hideo Kojima Tells Jade Raymond About Violence

4:40AM Mark Wilson | Ubisoft’s Jade Raymond recently interviewed Metal Gear god Hideo Kojima for a piece in Famitsu—yes, sounds like an interesting setup for an article, doesn’t it? (Aside: please Jade, don’t put us all out of our jobs). In the interview, Kojima had some harsh but fair points about violence in video games, and his perspective on the matter.: I don’t think there are many games that tackle violence head on…When you hit someone or inflict pain, faces get disfigured for example, and I want to make games that show that sort of thing. He continues: If you don’t see the pain, you can’t understand what you’ve done, and you’ll pass through battles without taking responsibility for your actions. I don’t want to ignore that. I want players to think, even if it’s just a little, about what violence and war are. Can misery be a refreshing perspective? Personally, I find MGS4’s attitude toward Snake—a hero who is aging, fallible and constantly in need of mental and physical maintenance—a good technique for reminding us about the atrocity of war. Because when Snake, pretty much badass incarnate (though I guess all “ass” is technically incarnate) is swayed by a situation, our poser selves will be too. Jade Raymond interviews Hideo Kojima [via n4g] More »