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Scandal Of The Day: Aquatica IPhone

11:40AM AJ Glasser | Earlier today, flOw creator Jenova Chen accused Aquatica iPhone developer Ketera Software of either improperly sourcing his game as inspiration or flat-out ripping off flOw’s source code. More »
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Which Do You Want: Downloadable Game Or Sammich?

4:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Digital games might mean “short”, but does it mean “small”? Not necessarily. More »
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ThatGameCompany And The Beauty Of Taking Risks

6:00AM Brian Ashcraft | “Everything is intense the first time you experience it,” says Jenova Chen, the 27-year-old creative director at Santa Monica-based studio ThatGameCompany. More »
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Boom Blox Producer Departs EA For Flower Studio

7:20AM Stephen Totilo | On the week of the release of the new Boom Blox, one of the game’s chief creators heads to ThatGameCompany. More »
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Frankenreview: Flower

5:20AM Mike Fahey | Following up on their success with the PlayStation Network favourite Flow, thatgamecompany returns to the PlayStation 3 with Flower, a game that attempts to capture the poetry of a flower petal riding the wind. More »
Hands On

Flower Micro-Review: All We Are Is Dust In The Wind

4:00AM Luke Plunkett | Flower is an odd proposition. Just like thatgamecompany’s last title, flOw, it’s not really a game. It’s a relaxant, suited more for a 3am slump on the couch than a 3-hour session after work. More »
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Flower Blooms Official Release Date

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Flower, the poetic new PlayStation Network titles from the creators of PSN favourite flOw has sprouted a release date, popping out of the ground in early February. More »

ThatGameCompany’s One Day Game

2:04AM Brian Crecente | From Crackle: thatgamecompany Game Jam 0: Gravediggers Ever wonder what a game created in 24 hours would look like? This is ThatGameCompany’s Gravediggers, which they created for their 24 hour game jam on the Playstation 3. The premise sounds interesting for a game, collecting zombie heads, but it looks too small to be playable. More »

flOw Team Shows Off Its 24 Hour PS3 Game

1:40PM Michael McWhertor | thatgamecompany, the team behind flOw and the upcoming Flower, isn’t on board with the folks who moan about dreadful PlayStation 3 development. They’re knocking out PS3 games in a 24 hour period these days, an exercise they’re calling Game Jam as conceived by lead engineer John Edwards. This is how the kids let off some steam, apparently, throwing together a zombie-filled multiplayer shoot-fest with the crudest of the crude graphics. The gameplay, as described by tcg’s Kellee Santiago, sounds pretty boss, but it’s the Altered Beast sound bites that really warm my heart. Cool concept, one we hope becomes a retail product, despite Santiago’s hints otherwise. thatgamecompany’s 24hr Game Jam [PlayStation.blog] More »