There’s little festivity inherent in the world of games, so where to visit via the medium of Google Street View at this most festive of times? How about Bethesda, developer of the UK’s Christmas number one, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Yeah, let’s do it. Off to Maryland! View Larger Map I’m sure Rockville isn’t …
Okay, so Batman: Arkham City has pretty well established itself as the best thing around right about now. But where did it come from? The simple answer is those talented chaps at Rocksteady Studios. They’re owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment these days, but retain their own studio in North London. The next destination for …
Last month, on our tour of the video games world via Google Street View, we paid a visit to Eidos Montreal, and discovered that the studio’s building is called ‘Le Gordon Brown’. It was a surprise, and no mistake. We’ll stay in Montreal this month, and pop over to Ubisoft Montreal, home to Prince of …
Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been met with rapturous reviews and chart topping sales. So it should be happy days at Eidos Montreal. Even better, Square Enix is reportedly looking to double the headcount at the studio. Apparently, the current office wouldn’t be able to accommodate that number of employees. So let’s take a jaunt …
It’s been a busy few months for Team Bondi. MAY: Their first game, L.A. Noire, is released to much acclaim, after seven years in the making. JUNE: Freelance journalist Andrew McMillen sheds light on that development hell – in that it was hell for the people working on the game – via IGN. JULY: McMillen …
Last time in Street Viewtiful, we went to Finland to check out the shiny offices of Angry Birds developers Rovio. That got me wondering about British mobile super-publisher, Chillingo. Firstly, I seem to have missed the news that they were bought by EA last year. And that Clickgamer.com – the current publisher of Angry Birds, …
So far in Street Viewtiful – our jaunt around the world of games – we’ve taken in Sega just off the M4, Rare’s Twycross HQ, and Game Group in Basingstoke. Not very worldly. So let’s expand our horizons, and travel to foreign climes. Those Angry Bird chaps, Rovio, are foreign. Finnish, to be specific. Wonder …
I only recently realised that Gameplay is a part of Game Group, as well as Gamestation. And Game, obviously. I’d ordered a few games from a few places, and they had the same Basingstoke return address. “Aha!” I thought. “How mildly notable.” So what is this mysterious distribution centre for the whole of the Game …
Our trip around the world of gaming via the medium of Google Street View continues. In the Nintendo years, Rare was a notoriously secretive company – which made the developer all the more fascinating to its fervent fans. Under the ownership of Microsoft, that mystique has faded somewhat – blame the games, blame the fans, …
Everyone loves a good poke around on Google Street View. So, in an idea I’ve shamelessly plagiarised from myself, we’re going to take an irregular jaunt around the world of games via that very medium. Where better to start than the scenic M4 motorway heading out of London? That’s where, as well as a number …