Games blog + Interviews

Friday 23 July 2010
Tech Weekly at Develop 2010

Peter Molyneux on Fable III, and all action from the Develop video game conference in Brighton

Posted by Keith Stuart, Scott Cawley 12.04 BST
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Tech Weekly: Facebook's panic button, Kristian Segerstrale of Playfish

This week Aleks and Jemima are joined by Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch Europe, and Kristian Segerstrale, vice president and general manager of Playfish.

Posted by Aleks Krotoski, Jemima Kiss, Scott Cawley 10.17 BST
Tuesday 29 June 2010
Tech Weekly: Tax relief for games U-turn, Google's chess game with China, xxx – porn's new name

Richard Wilson of video games industry body TIGA discusses the cuts to previously promised tax breaks for the industry. There's the latest on Google's troubles in China, and what could be the new place for sex on the internet – the xxx domain

Posted by Aleks Krotoski, Charles Arthur, Tom Watson, Scott Cawley 18.01 BST
Monday 26 April 2010
Bodycount: the Stuart Black interview, part one

Bodycount: 'I joked that, you know, we should just write a f**king shooter, make it easy on ourselves for Christ's sake'

Earlier this month we took an early look at Bodycount, the incendiary new shooter from UK publisher, Codemasters. The creative director on the project is Stuart Black, the outspoken games designer behind 2006 PlayStation 2 hit Black, and a veteran of Bullfrog, the massively influential studio formed by Peter Molyneux back in the mid-eighties.
Black wears his passion for games, not so much on his sleeve, but more accurately, tattooed across his forehead in giant neon ink letters. I recently spoke to him about the genesis of Bodycount, his approach to design, and about the state of contemporary game creation.
Here's part one of what he had to say...
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Posted by Keith Stuart 10.46 BST
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Tech Weekly: Digital candidates, Heather Brooke and Alan Wake

In a packed programme, we hear from freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke, one of the developers of the new Alan Wake game for Xbox, and the election candidates that are standing for tech policies

Posted by Heather Brooke, Aleks Krotoski, Charles Arthur, Keith Stuart, Scott Cawley 17.30 BST
Thursday 1 April 2010
Interview with Goichi Suda

Suda51 is one of the most interesting video game developers in the world. Responsible for hyper-kinetic shoot-outs like Killer 7 and No More Heroes, he chats to the Guardian about the creative process … and watch out for the most unlikely toilet metaphor in game interview history

Posted by Keith Stuart, Mustafa Khalili 14.30 BST
Way of the Samurai 3: 'Not your typical hack and slash"

Yoshinori Terasawa, producer of Way of the Samurai 3

Games blog speaks to Yoshinori Terasawa, the producer of Way of the Samurai 3
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Posted on 12.33 BST
Monday 9 November 2009
How we brought Formula One to the Wii: Ned Waterhouse interview

Formula 1 2009: Ned Waterhouse's aim was to combine tactical depth and accessibility

The lead designer for Codemasters' Formula 1 2009 on the Wii and PSP, Ned Waterhouse of Sumo Digital, talks to Nicky Woolf
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Posted by Nicky Woolf 12.20 GMT
Thursday 29 October 2009
Interview: Danny Wallace - Assassin's Creed II

Danny Wallace plays the historian in Assassin's Creed II. Photograph: Ubisoft

Jack Arnott spoke to the writer, presenter and now videogame character about his involvement in Ubisoft's soon-to-be-released slash-em-up sequel
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Posted by Jack Arnott 18.05 GMT
Friday 25 September 2009
Stan Lee: 'I have no idea how games are made – it's a miracle'

Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

Dan Martin: The comicbook legend who gave the world Spider-Man would rather invent games if he was a young man today
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Posted by Dan Martin 18.30 BST
Tuesday 28 July 2009
Behind the scenes of Halo 3: ODST

Developers Ryan Crosby, left, and Lars Bakken. Photograph: Bruno Vincent

Bungie Studios' Lars Bakken and Microsoft Game Studios' Ryan Crosby talk about taking the Halo game franchise in exciting new directions, with the arrival of Halo 3: ODST
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Posted by Tom Roberts 12.22 BST
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Tech Weekly: Develop videogames conference special

Ian Livingstone of EIDOS remains tight-lipped about the next Tomb Raider game starring Lara Croft. Also, discussion with the games legends behind Elite, GTA 1 and 2, Lemmings and Lego Star Wars and Batman.

Posted by Keith Stuart, Bobbie Johnson, Scott Cawley 21.14 BST
Wednesday 1 July 2009
id Software's future lies in the engine power behind Doom, Quake and Rage

Raw power … ZeniMax will benefit from the tech behind games such as Doom 3

id Software's reputation was created by its FPS Doom and an independent spirit that its boss believes will remain, despite its acquisition by ZeniMax
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Posted by Mike Anderiesz 18.40 BST
Tuesday 2 June 2009
How Tetris conquered the world, block by block

Eastern block: Tetris publisher Henk Rogers and author Alexey Pajitnov, right

That addictive puzzler Tetris – created 25 years ago by Russian Alexey Pajitnov – has a legitimate claim to being the videogame that conquered the world
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Posted by Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco 00.01 BST
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Tech Weekly: Steven Spielberg on gaming, and the tech behind transport

Steven Spielberg tells us how different filmmaking is to creating videogames. We also look at the clever technology that can keep you moving this bank holiday as you travel the country

Posted by Aleks Krotoski, Charles Arthur, Bobbie Johnson, Scott Cawley 20.32 BST