At about 1:30 in the video below, you’ll notice that Peter Molyneux makes a Batman reference. That’s because Peter Molyneux and I always wind up talking comics. When I first met Molyneux during a press tour for the first Fable, we wound up talking about Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. And, most recently, he talked about a battle …
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Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead Weekly
If this weekend’s premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead makes you wish you could catch up with Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard’s original comic version, but you can’t quite justify spending the money on the first collection sight unseen, don’t worry. Come January, Image Comics will be releasing The Walking Dead Weekly, a …
Techland Interview: Alex Trebek
Jeopardy host Alex Trebek has been dishing out answers in the form of questions since 1984. Trebek recently made a guest appearance in an online episode of NBC’s FCU: Fact Checkers Unit. Who better to check facts than the Father of Facts, himself?
In an interview with Techland, Trebek discusses his career, his thoughts on technology, …
The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 3
Previous parts: The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 1, The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 2
Evan Wells from Naughty Dog talks about where he thinks Sony went wrong with the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3-as well as his own initial skepticism to 3D game development–in the last part of my interview with him.
Are there …
The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 2
Read part one here: The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 1
In this section of my talk with Evan Wells, he speaks ill of a long-dead console, Sony’s PSP conundrum and the way that technology inspired Naughty Dog’s successful Jak & Daxter franchise.
Do you remember the first time you saw the Playstation? Or did you hear …
The Playstation and Me: Evan Wells, Part 1
If you ask any ten people what the best series on Playstation 3 is, odds are that eight of them will say the Uncharted games by the Naughty Dog development house. The first game starring wise-cracking treasure hunter Nathan Drake was the exemplar of the kind of stunning visuals that the PS3 could deliver. The second game–Uncharted 2: …
The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 3
Previously: The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 1, The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 2
To wrap up my interview with games industry vet and all-around nice guy Ted Price, I asked him about his favorite Playstation games as well as ones that deserved more love and how he’s planning to tackle 3D game development. Thanks again …
The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 2
You can find the first part of my talk with Ted Price right here: The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 1. Continuing the discussion of Price’s history with video games and Playstation, the chief Insomniac speaks on making the most of the PS3 processors, what they learned from Resistance 2 and his love of LittleBigPlanet.
One of …
The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 1
Of all the folks I spoke to for the Playstation retrospective that Techland’s going to be rolling out over the next couple of days, Ted Price had to be the most unassuming. Not that the other people are blowhards, but it’s just that Ted Price doesn’t have the kind of name recognition that, say, a David Jaffe has to deal with. The head of …
The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 3
Previous parts of this interview are right here: The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 1, The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 2
If you’ve been reading this multi-part talk and wondering where the Twisted Metal update is, then wonder no longer. Jaffe discusses development on the new iteration of his car combat series and …
The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 2
Catch up on the conversation here: The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 1.
In this next part of my talk with David Jaffe, he discusses the possibilities that the original Playstation opened up and the way it changed how the mainstream thinks about gaming. Read on.
So, when Playstation shows up, what did it mean to you then? …
The Playstation and Me: David Jaffe, Part 1
Last week marked the 15th anniversary of the Playstation brand. It’s hard to see it now, but in 1995, Sony’s surprising entry into the world of video game hardware constituted a huge gamble that many thought wouldn’t pay off. Of course, the Playstation’s fortunes turned out far better than anyone could have expected. It’s not an …
