pax 2011
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Borderlands 2 Dev Talks New Art, Improved AI, And Why PC Gamers Won’t Get A Port This Time Around
32By now, you’ve probably seen the leaked footage of the most recent Borderlands 2 demo, and read our own Michael McWhertor’s impressions of the game from Gamescom. Last weekend at PAX, I caught up with Gearbox’s art director Jeremy Cooke to chat with him about the new characters, guns and art tech in Borderlands 2,…
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War Of The Worlds Game Keeps Reminding People Of Out Of This World
I heard at E3 that the new downloadable War of the Worlds game might remind people of the lovely, spooky black-and-white side-scroller Limbo. But when I saw the downloadable game at the Xbox 360 booth at the Penny Arcade Expo, I and two other passersby all made a different comparison: Out of this World.
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The Splatters Is About The Cheerful Suicide Of Blobs
Before I saw The Splatters this month at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, our own Brian Crecente saw the game, then called Confetti Carnival, at the DICE convention in Las Vegas back in February.
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Tetris Plus Tower Defence Yet Again, But Better This Time
In game designer Eitan Glinert’s mind peanut butter must be tower defence and jelly must be Tetris, because for the second game in a row, the young creator has smushed the two great gaming styles together. He’s just done it radically different this time, as if switching from making PB&J sandwiches to — I don’t…