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Former KingsIsle VP and creative director Todd Coleman on what’s next for him (exclusive interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 27, 2013
7 min

Former KingsIsle Entertainment vice president and creative director Todd Coleman recently announced his departure from the company. KingsIsle is an Austin, TX-based studio best known for their online free-to-play game, Wizard101, and more recently Pirate101.

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7 min

Xbox co-creator recruits arcade-game “dream team” to make iPad and iPhone games (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 12, 2012
15 min

Seamus Blackley, president of Innovative Leisure and co-creator of the Xbox, has assembled a "dream team" of old Atari game designers and assigned them to work with young programmers to develop new arcade-like games for Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.

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15 min

Even Scribblenauts’ creator is surprised by the things people make in his new game

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 9, 2012
3 min

Even Scribblenauts creator Jeremiah Slaczka of 5th Cell is surprised at some of the things fans have come up with while playing his game.

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3 min

The Last Story developer talks Operation Rainfall, reason for cover system, and Wii U

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 8, 2012
5 min

The Last Story developer talks about the game and the reason the team went with a duck-and-cover combat system.

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5 min

How Shenmue’s lead programmer rescued a bad game

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 7, 2012
3 min

Creating a game is extremely tough. Creating a game when you have don’t know how to go about your idea is even tougher. That’s the challenge that creative director at Acquire Richie Casper faced when trying to make Orgarhythm.

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3 min

Casey Hudson: BioWare co-created Mass Effect 3 with the (sometimes cranky) fans (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2012
7 min

Casey Hudson‘s star is shining bright as the launch of his team’s epic sci-fi video game, Mass Effect 3, draws near. He is the...

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7 min