Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters
If you’ve worked in games and technology long enough, you have your super fans, the people who you can turn to when you’re designing...
The DeanBeat: What Visceral’s closing means for video games
The video game industry received a shock to the system this week as Electronic Arts rebooted its story-based Star Wars game and shut down...
EA reboots Uncharted creator’s new Star Wars game, closes Visceral Studios (update)
Electronic Arts announced today that it is reworking Visceral’s Star Wars game. The project was under the acclaimed Amy Hennig, who was the creator...
Jade Raymond’s Motive Studios has grown to 65 in Montreal — and it’s hiring for a Star Wars game
Jade Raymond, a well-known game development executive who left Ubisoft to start a new game studio for Electronic Arts, posted that she has built...
The comprehensive interview with Uncharted 4 creators Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is one of the greatest video games of all time. It wraps up the four-part adventures of Nathan Drake,...
Warren Spector wants to mine new ’emergent gameplay’ from System Shock’s nostalgia
All of Warren Spector’s games over the past few decades have been about “emergent gameplay,” which give players choices so that they can solve...
How EA’s Star Wars video game developers are approaching the creative process
MONTREAL — Contrary to what you might think, the creators of upcoming Star Wars games are not just waiting to get the scripts handed...
EA Star Wars game creators Amy Hennig and Jade Raymond reflect on game storytelling
After Electronic Arts scored a deal to make Star Wars games in partnership with Disney's Lucasfilm, the company decided to add more creative firepower.
The DeanBeat: Paris may give us a moment of clarity about who we pretend to be
MONTREAL — Video games are not detached from the real world. We use them to remind us of real life, or sometimes to escape...
Jade Raymond’s journey to EA, Star Wars games, and a new Montreal studio
Jade Raymond has been making games since she was 14, and she’s just getting started. While other veteran game developers are settling into their...