When Ken Levine made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that Irrational Games was shutting down and only a small group of employees would be retained as he migrated to a new venture, one thing came to mind -- the 2008 contract negotiations between Levine and Take-Two.
Last week, Harmonix's corporate domain registrar privately registered a handful of domains including harmonixchroma.com, harmonixchromagame.com, chroma-game.com, chromaalpha.com and chromabeta.com. These domains follow an August 2012 trademark application for "Chroma".
Several agency job postings for an unnamed British developer matching text of Rocksteady career openings says the developer's current project "has been tipped to be one of the most successful games of 2014," suggesting we'll be seeing Rocksteady's next game next year.
A former Namco developer recently uploaded this milestone video of early footage from a cancelled Snake Plissken game that was in development at the Namco's Bay Area studio, developers of the first Dead to Rights and innovative cover shooter Kill Switch, in 2003 and 2004.
Sony's World War II air combat game? -- Monolith and WB working on a Lord of the Rings game that'll be cross-generation? -- Gas Powered Games' cancelled project: Project Spark?
ALL THAT, PLUS MORE GAMING SECRETS: The New/Old BioWare - The Forza After Forza 5 - Are we on the verge of Infinity Blade III?
As mainstream video games strived to be more cinematic and as gaming emerged as a major source of entertainment revenues, it was only a matter of time until the talent from the film industry would attempt to get in on the action. Such a thing has indeed happened numerous times. For whatever reason, it typically has not worked out.
In an interview published in the 2012 book Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play, gaming luminary Warren Spector mentioned something of a bombshell that seems to have gone unnoticed, saying that he "did some work for Valve on Half-Life stuff" in the early, pre-Disney days of Junction Point Studios.
After listening to this week's episode of This American Life on software patents, I was curious to investigate patents within the gaming sphere. Although we routinely hear about console manufacturers' patents, patents from publishers are a less frequent source for headlines.
On LinkedIn, a Microsoft engineer says that he is working as part of the Video Cognition team "on cool new features for the next Xbox" under NDA -- something that could be more revealing than it appears to be. (He also contributed to video processing efforts for video content with containing DRM, providing an information stream for SmartGlass content.)
We have more great gaming scoops and rumours from that mysterious figure known as Superannuation. What did Superannuation dig up this time? Lots of things that you're probably not supposed to know about yet...
Editor's Note: The mysterious person known as Superannuation shows up every two weeks like a new pay cheque, if you had a job that paid you in gaming rumours and secrets, all sourced to publicly available information.
