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These Games Made You: Classics That Inspired A New Video Game Novel
Like many of us, Austin Grossman has lived with video games his whole life. But, like a lot fewer of us, he went on make them, working as a writer and a designer on beloved titles like Deus Ex and Dishonored. Yesterday, his literary love letter to the medium — a novel called You — hit screens and bookstore shelves all over the world.
Swiss Officially Neutral On SHODAN Vs. GLaDOS
The Last Hours Of One Of Video Games’ Greatest Developers
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Mike Chrzanowski, who used to work for PC developers Looking Glass, sent us these videos over the weekend that show the final hours of one of the greatest studios this industry has ever seen.
System Shock 2′s Surprise Ending — For Ken Levine, Anyway
Widely acclaimed when it released in 1999, System Shock 2′s cinematic conclusion nonetheless disappointed Irrational Games creative chief Ken Levine. The reason: The video that was shot wasn’t anything like what he had scripted.
Monday Musings: Shooting For The Future
Apparently the future of shooters is RPGs. Or says Cliff Bleszinski. And it seems like Bioware’s Ray Muzyka agrees with him. Have they both gone mad?
GlaDOS & Shodan, Sitting In A Tree…
OK, maybe not a tree. More like a tangled mess of cables, wiring and cold steel. And maybe not kissing. What they’re doing looks a little more “after dark” than a childhood rhyme could manage…
