John Romero, co-founder of Id Software and co-creator of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, recently posted a status update on his Facebook account. The location of the post? Square Enix’s office in El Segundo,California.
Speculation has led to many fans hoping for a sequel to the last big game he made, Daikatana. More likely than Daikatana 2 though, might be Square Enix contracting his company, … [ Read More... ]
In an interview with Edge Online, Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games and creator of the Unreal engine, commented on the future of gaming graphics and business. He expressed enthusiasm regarding future console graphics and also predicted the fall of retail game sales followed by the dominant rise of online game sales. Tim Sweeney continued expressing that game development budgets should focus far less on marketing and more … [ Read More... ]
One of our most highly anticipated games is The Last Guardian (formerly code named Trico), which is being developed by Team ICO under SCE Japan Studio. Good news has come in the form of a public address by it’s creator, Fumito Ueda. On his website he posted a status update for The Last Guardian, the follow up to Shadow of the Colossus & ICO. This … [ Read More... ]
According to employee tweets and other reports, Valve has fired a whole bunch of people at the company. These are some pretty big changes too. Valve, the company behind Half Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Steam and more, has supposedly let go of about 25 people, although this number is not confirmed. Furthermore, Jason Holtman, Director of Business at Valve, has reportedly resigned from the company. … [ Read More... ]