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Captaining The Lifeboat: Runic Games’ Max Schaefer and Travis Baldree

After Flagship Studios became embroiled in a legal controversy regarding the fate of its intellectual properties, it seemed nothing -- not Hellgate, not promising action-RPG Mythos, and not an explanation of any kind -- would escape. But today, the heads of the newly-established Runic Studios give GameCyte a glimpse of Flagship Studio's wreckage, and explain how their group of survivors is planning for the future.

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E3 2008: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Impressions

Among the many games available for play on the show floor at this year’s E3, there were a number of weird and wonderful titles. GameCyte had the chance to pick up and play one of the year’s stranger contenders, namely, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Born from the incredibly unlikely mix of a rich BioWare RPG, the speedy [...]

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Dana Hanna Discusses Shadowrun Missteps

Dana Hanna of Microsoft Game Studio gave a postmortem lecture at the ION Game Conference called “You Can’t Do That! Crossing Platforms and Genres with Shadowrun.” My opinion on Shadowrun is well-known by readers here, so it should come as no great shock that I’m intrigued by the argument Hanna made during the lecture.

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