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Courtroom Setback In Epic Fight ‘Tis A Flesh Wound, Says Silicon Knights

10:00PM January 5, 2012 | Owen Good

Much has been made of a recent ruling adverse to Silicon Knights in its long-running lawsuit with Epic Games, the Gears of War maker whose Unreal Engine was to have been the guts of 2008 flop Too Human. A judge tossed out an expert witness for Silicon Knights; he was going to give his estimates of the losses Silicon Knights suffered when its deal with Epic went in the crapper. More »


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Rumour: Silicon Knights Suffer Massive Lay Offs

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9:15AM November 1, 2011 | Mark Serrels

1up is reporting that Silicon Knights, the team behind games such as Eternal Darkness and Too Human, has laid off a number of staff, shrinking from 97 to 25 in three short months. More »


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Riotous Beginning For The New Mutants Of X-Men: Destiny

7:00AM September 29, 2011 | Mike Fahey

How does one go from being a displaced teenager with a dickhead father one moment to being an unofficial member of the world’s greatest mutant fighting force the next? Let’s ask X-Men: Destiny. More »


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How Silicon Knights Guided X-Men’s Destiny

3:20AM September 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

In this behind the scenes video for X-Men Destiny, Denis Dyack and the team at Silicon Knights explain how they went about crafting a new chapter in the tale of Marvel’s mighty mutants. More »


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X-Men: Destiny Takes A Voice Of Protest To The City By The Bay

10:30AM July 22, 2011 | Owen Good

San Francisco is a city long associated with rights movements, idealism and rallies for peace, making it a useful backdrop for X-Men: Destiny. But Silicon Knights isn’t planning on a Summer of Love in when the game arrives this Australian spring. More »


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X-Men Destiny Shows Off Uglier Side Of Marvel’s Mutant Menace

4:20AM July 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, making it the perfect time to parade out some ugly X-Men cosplayers, courtesy of Activision’s X-Men Destiny. More »


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GameStop Wreaks Havok On The X-Men, Gives Spider-Man An Identity Crisis

10:30AM July 13, 2011 | Mike Fahey

With two Marvel superhero video games coming from Activision this Australian spring, GameStop ransacks comic book continuity for fresh outfits to provide preorder customers of X-Men: Destiny and Spider-Man: Edge of Time. More »


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Meet Grant, X-Men: Destiny’s Football Hero

4:20AM May 21, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Joining Aimi Yoshida as one of three new mutant characters in Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny, Grant is a jock hailing from Georgia whose only ambition is to become a football hero. He gets it half-right. More »


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"Social Gaming Is Going To Crash"

7:00PM May 12, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Game designer Denis Dyack, who labored on action game Too Human for years, thinks that social gaming is a bubble waiting to burst: “The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry’s seen in a long time and I think when it crashes it’s going to crash very hard.” [IndustryGamers] More »


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Too Human Trilogy Will Be Finished, Says Silicon Knights

5:40AM May 3, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Silicon Knights, the creators of Xbox 360 game Too Human, says it still “intend[s]to finish the trilogy” despite meagre sales, middling critical reception and a very long development cycle. More »