Archive for January, 2008

A lot has been said over the past few weeks concerning the sexual content of Mass Effect, most notably the controversially unresearched Fox TV spot below. As a former member of the dev team responsible, (who directed a portion of the motion-capture actors involved – though full cutscenes weren’t my gig), I can perhaps speak [...]

Mario’s Planet?
January 26th, 2008

I finally concede defeat – I’ve played a Wii game that isn’t shit. Despite being a huge fan of the Zelda series, I found even the Wii launch title Zelda to fall flat on its face after just an hour’s play and has never been touched since. I did, however, receive a copy of Mario [...]

TJ Lives Again
January 20th, 2008

A spot of reminiscing was had this week after I spied my first ever project, Tom & Jerry: War of The Whiskers, (hey – we’ve all got to start somewhere right?), on the latest list of original XBOX games made compatible for the XBOX360. It brought back both good and bad memories to throw it [...]

Poster Boy
January 15th, 2008

In light of Kotaku’s recent gallery of games industry work desks I thought I’d add my own to the mix, taken late last year to accompany my testimonial on the Eidos Montreal website. As you can see, I run a tight ship… I’m sure the sterile environment will change over time as we’d only been [...]

Fantastic Imagination
January 14th, 2008

Jurie Horneman, (Champion of the recent Manhunt 2 credits fiasco), has posted links to several galleries displaying animation of Eastern European origin. I don’t know about North America, but these kinds of disturbing and unsettling images were all part of growing up as a kid in Europe, especially a kid interested in animation. Lately I’ve [...]

Capcom have released two ingame videos of their upcoming Street Fighter IV. Anybody who knows me will understand that this is incredibly exciting, especially as the moving images have quashed any fears brought about by the dodgy early screenshots from EGM’s cover story last month.

VR Within Grasp?
January 1st, 2008

A name like a bad guy from a Van Damme flick hasn’t stopped Johnny Lee from creating some incredibe 3D apps using a Wii remote connected to a PC, most recently this fantastic DIY Desktop Virtual Reality Display. I recently saw Beowulf in full Imax 3D and came out wondering two things. Why did they [...]