Perhaps we're cynics, but Reckless Getaway looks like a game made in anticipation of a license that never happened. It has a lot that's familiar, but what gives things away is the car – a 1970 Dodge Challenger, exactly as seen in Driver: San Francisco.
As part of our recently published feature on the complexities of localisation, we asked Iris Ludolf of translation/localisation specialist Partnertrans what advice she would offer a developer setting out to localise its games for overseas regions in today’s market.
"Why is Joe Danger such a typical fat, ugly American?” Of all the anticipated cultural and language problems that taking a western game to Japan could have thrown up, Sean Murray, managing director of Hello Games, was still surprised at the question posed by the journalists at Famitsu on his visit to Tokyo last year.
Paul Wedgwood, CEO and game director of Brink developer Splash Damage, has weighed in on the crunch debate, telling us that his studio goes to great lengths to ensure that excessive overtime is the exception rather than the rule.
A prominent independent developer has told us that Microsoft must do more to promote the best games on Xbox Live Indie Games or risk losing the service's most talented developers to other platforms.
Featuring roles at developers including Guerrilla Games, Crytek, DICE and Sony, and across the world, from Shanghai to San Francisco, Edge Jobs is the ideal place to
Revenue grossed from Xbox Live Arcade games rose 41 per cent in the first six months of the year, according to data released by market research firm Fade.
Most mornings these days, I am woken up by the main title theme from Metal Gear Solid 2. This has major benefits for a chronically reluctant riser. The beginning of the music, all blippy whooshes and mysterious cello stabs, evokes the feeling that today is going to be yet another exciting action-thriller adventure.
Most mornings these days, I am woken up by the main title theme from Metal Gear Solid 2. This has major benefits for a chronically reluctant riser. The beginning of the music, all blippy whooshes and mysterious cello stabs, evokes the feeling that today is going to be yet another exciting action-thriller adventure.