Gaming Iresponsibly's Adam Allcroft writes; You may not have noticed but I am a Brit. I am a Northen ‘bloke’ and live in a town that somehow survived the death of mining in the UK and has become the National City of Sport. Despite our football teams being shite. But we have been left behind in technological terms. Until now. Here are five developers that have developed some of the biggest games in recent times.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
An independent UK developer says it’s been forced to announce and postpone its game on the same day, and lay off more than half of its staff, due to the sharp downturn in investment in the games industry.
Former Rockstar Games Technical Director Obbe Vermeij has finally revealed why some planes would randomly crash in GTA: San Andreas.
This fly by feature was on the cutting room floor due to the random plane crashes and it's one of those things I'm so thankful made it into the final version as these random fly by and crashes make the world seem more alive on the extremely limited PS2 hardware you needed everything you could possibly get in a open world to convey that feeling.
And accross hundreds of hours of gameplay I probably died around 3 times as a result of these fly by failures but I loved every time it happened
It made the world feel more human, and honestly kinda insane that even today with all these open world games, almost no one can capture that like R* even when compared to their ps2 games
Lol, I remember those. I vaguely remember dying from one crashing into my car once too.
British game development is surprisingly strong. It took the government time to realise this after refusing them tax breaks
This kid cracks me up every time. I love his Brit-speak.
"OK, so Kinect Sports was such a letdown. But lets not think about this new Rare which are sell outs." - Actually, let's. Let's think about a company that has made the best-selling game for a new peripheral. Let's think about the fact that the game is a VERY good one. Let's think about what the money from Kinect Sports will help Rare to do in the future. That's not "selling out." That's protecting and building your business.
"They then made Killer Instinct, where the amount of ‘leaked’ announcements for KI3 actually outnumber the amount of games in the series–a game that changed the FPS genre for ever." - What? I don't understand how Killer Instinct changed the FPS genre forever. Enlighten me.
As for the title: "Rise of the British Developer" - I realize that the article author is only 16, but that doesn't mean that he shouldn't know his gaming history. In the 8-bit days, British developers were where it was AT. They didn't just "appear" at the same time as the first PlayStation. What about Codemasters? The 80's was all about Codemasters compliations and the likes of BMX Simulator and Dizzy. The company recently released Operation Flashpoint: Red River, and will very soon release DiRT 3 - which will sell very well. Hell, how about Elite from Braben and Bell? How about Team 17, who created Worms?