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Crimson Alliance doesn’t make its appearance until September 7 but if you were one of the people who picked up all the Summer of Arcade titles, you should be …
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Quantum Conundrum was announced at PAX Prime this year coming from Kim Swift and Airtight Games with Square Enix publishing. We’ve seen the game in action before but here’s an official trailer that sets the scene for the game as you figure out what dimension your crazy uncle inventor ended up in. After the break, you’ll see another gameplay demo featuring Kim Swift utilizing all of the dimensions from fluffy to slow-time to reverse-gravity. The design when it comes to some of these puzzles looks intelligent and looks to get more challenging as you progress, be on a lookout for this title in early 2012.
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What can be said that hasn’t already been said about Retro City Rampage? The mayhem-infused throwback has seen so many types of gameplay and this is just another one …
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The original Joe Danger was an amazing title for PSN that combined elements of Trials, Excitebike and the thrill of being a daredevil motorcyclist. You’d think the …
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Now that PAX is over, Twisted Pixel and Penny Arcade teamed up to create a new themed challenge for Ms. Splosion Man. Nine Fruit Friends are hidden in the …
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Tell us a little bit about your team?

We are two standard Italian nerds. Francesco, from Benjamin Ficus production, is responsible for the plot, level design and guilty of all the misspellings. Despite his love of creating video games, his computer skills suck hard He was lucky enough to find Matteo, his colleague. Matteo, from HeartBit interactive, is the genius behind the programming.

What made you decide to use the XBLIG platform for your game?

Around two years ago, Francesco made a game with RPG Maker. It was a small but fun adventure of four nerds trapped in a fantasy world. Everybody (his friends and his mum) was pleased with the game and kept telling him “You got talent”, “You should make some money with it”, and “Eat your vegetables” so Francesco decided to turn his small project into a real game! He discovered that a friend of a friend (Matteo, from HeartBit interactive) was a very talented programmer who already worked in the amazing field of game development. Francesco showed his project to Matteo who said “your game is pretty cool, why don’t we collaborate to put it on Xbox Live Indie Games. You do the level design, story and other crap while I do the serious coding and programming. It shouldn’t take much time, right?”

TWO years later, here we are!
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To kick things off can you give us a brief overview of what Renegade Ops is?

Renegade Ops is a top-down, dual-stick shooter, where you get to drive around in cool vehicles, with even cooler weapons, and wreck havoc in awesome environments, with the goal of stopping evil megalomaniac Inferno from taking over the world. You play as one of four characters compromising the “Renegade Ops”-outfit, under the command of their big-muscled-big-mustachioed leader General Bryant. Each of the four characters has a unique vehicle, special ability, and unlockable upgrades earned through an RPG-like leveling system. Renegade Ops is fast, tough, crazy, and loads of fun!

What inspired Avalanche to go from creating large open world games like Just Cause to a digital download title like Renegade Ops? What games out there inspired you guys to go the direction you did with Renegade Ops itself?

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While working on the well-received Limbo, developer Playdead Studios got help from some private investors to expand their original idea from a free PC game to the game we …
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A slew of new media has come out surrounding one of the earlier levels in Other Ocean’s upcoming War of the Worlds game. Paddington Station is a train station which was …
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Capcom has announced that the recently released Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition will be getting downloadable content as soon as next week. The first package, titled “Color …
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