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Ready At Dawn Makes Its Own Game Dev Platform

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Ready At Dawn gives its experience and expertise back to the development community with the Ready At Dawn Engine, a comprehensive game development platform that contains everything a company needs to make AAA console titles. More »
Culture

Kratos’ Companion Cube Gets Unchained

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Did you know that there’s an extremely well-hidden cameo in God of War: Chains of Olympus? It’s the much deadlier, more ancient Companion Cube, the omega of all cubeforms, capable of kicking serious ass.
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Ready At Dawn Would Love A UMD-Less PSP, Hates Used Games

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Who truly knows whether Sony is planning on dropping UMDs for the next version of the PSP? Only Sony (and David Perry). Certainly not God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn. More »
Rumours

Rumour: Second God Of War PSP Game In The Works

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | The PlayStation Portable may be getting a second helping of Kratos, as reports put God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn Studios hard at work on a follow-up handheld adventure. More »
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Sony In Talks with Ready At Dawn About PSP Title

2:00AM Brian Crecente | Ready at Dawn, the development studio behind two of the most popular titles for the Playstation Portable, may be returning to PSP development.
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At Least Ready At Dawn Is Hiring!

11:40AM Michael McWhertor | If you’re one of the hundreds of video game developers finding yourself newly unemployed, you can always get a job at God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn studios! More »

Ready At Dawn Reconsidering PSP Development?

2:00AM Brian Crecente | Are Ready at Dawn reconsidering their flight from Playstation Portable development? More »

Ready At Dawn Is Serious About Dropping The PSP

12:00PM Michael McWhertor | Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn was dead serious when it said it was moving on from PSP development. Proof is in the form of the boxing up and shipping out of dozens of PSP development kits and the continued teasing of what’s in store after the Japanese release of the PSP version of God of War. With three solid games under its belt, we’re appropriately psyched about where the dev is going next. Ready At Dawn News More »

Capcom Fuck Clover’s Sad Panda Corpse [Updated]

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | How does Okami director Hideki Kamiya feel about the Wii port? He’s pretty bummed out! The Wii version has cut the staff end credits from the game, which was released in North America earlier this month. The original game was developed by now dissolved Capcom subsidiary Clover and ported by Daxter developer Ready at Dawn. According to Kamiya: I really don’t know what under pretext the credits were cut… What do you all think? I feel dejected, and not only because my own name has been erased from my creation. Of course we have pride in our work and we want to scream “We made this!” from the top of our lungs. But more than that, the fact that they cut the entire staff is utterly deplorable. More »

God of War Chains of Olympus Review: Portable Near Perfection

5:00AM Brian Crecente | God of War: Chains of Olympus is a stunning and portable prequel to the much touted God of War franchise. Taking place ten years before the original God of War, Kratos is delivered to gamers in a title that can be played on the go. While the story-driven gameplay and over-the-top action of previous God of War games made them nearly instant classics, developers Ready at Dawn had to try and encapsulate all of that screen-filling glory on a 4-inch LCD without losing any of the pizazz. Ready at Dawn certainly achieved their goals, but they didn’t do so without a bit of stumbling. More »