out of this world
In Real Life

The Four Video Games That Shaped Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima

Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series–which turns 25 next year–says he’s drawn influence from four video games above all others. They are four very different games, each “very important” he says. What are they?

September 23, 2011
Mobile

Play An HD Version Of Another World On The iPhone, iPad

Classic, cinematic ’90s platformer, Another World (Out of this World to some of you) is available today for the iPhone and iPad.

July 27, 2011
Retro

The Game That Really Was Out Of This World

Kotaku AU

It was 1992. I was at my friend Paul’s house, playing games on his mighty 486 PC, and we’d just finished a complete playthrough of Monkey Island for probably the 100th time. Bored, he turns to me and says “Oh yeah, my brother got this new game. Let’s play that.”

March 24, 2011
In Real Life

Watch Creators Of Doom, Pac-Man, Pitfall! Wax Nostalgic

Not only can you now relive this year’s Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future”, you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post mortems.

March 4, 2011
PC

The Making Of ‘Out Of This World’ And The Infinite Fax Attack

Eric Chahi, the creator of moody landmark adventure game Out of This World (aka Another World), once fought with his publisher, Interplay, via fax machine. Things got so bad at one point he attacked Interplay’s offices with the dreaded “infinite fax”.

May 8, 2009

LittleBigPlanet Goes Out Of This World

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