It has been a while since we last visited a developer via the magic of Google Street View, but Double Helix struck us as a decent contender. The California-based studio has been around since 2007, yet it was only when it was revealed that they were co-developing Killer Instinct that most gamers acknowledged their existence. …
It’s a shame that Ride to Hell developers Eutechnyx aren’t based in Hull, as it would have given us a slightly more amusingly headline for this month’s Google Street View feature. Instead we’re off to Gateshead, south of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Eutechnyx are best known for creating various budget-priced racing games – along with the …
Let’s go to Japan! Not literally of course, the last minute flights would be cripplingly expensive. But it has been a while since Street Viewtiful – our regular jaunt around the world of games via the medium of Google Street View – went to Japan. For many it’s the spiritual home of the video game, …
Crystal Dynamics are a developer who have been around a lot longer than most people realise, having first cut their teeth on the ill-fated 3DO back in 1992. They were, in fact, responsible for the 3DO’s original pack in-game – Crash ‘n’ Burn. If that name rings a bell it might be because Eidos sneakily …
Time for another of our regular jaunts around the gaming world via the medium of Google Street View. Nothing topical or clever this month: let’s just go and have a gander at Sumo Digital. After all, it’s official: everyone likes Sumo Digital. With various Sonic Racing and OutRun titles to their name, you would, wouldn’t …
Another stop on our non-stop tour of the gaming world via Google Street View. Yes, that definitely makes sense. 2012 was not a good year for THQ. Edge carried a rather good summary of their year as one of their Stories of 2012 last week, but in short: job losses, financial losses, studio closures, holding …
Halo 4 is out today. For those who have been living under an inanimate object for the past year or so, 343 Industries are at the helm of this new trilogy rather than Bungie, who have buggered off to do Activision’s bidding. Tracking down an address for 343 Industries wasn’t the easiest of tasks – …
Last month we used our all seeing eye (AKA Google Street View) to have a peak at Future Publishing’s offices. It only seems fair that this month we take a look at the Bournemouth-based Imagine Publishing. Imagine Publishing are responsible for Retro Gamer, X360 and Play – the longest running PlayStation magazine out there. They …
You should be familiar with our regular Street Viewtiful feature by now. We pick a possibly topical company, and use our secret spy camera (Google Street View) to have a peak at their offices. This month we’ve picked the Bath-based Future plc, who lately made the decision to end the rather spiffing Nintendo Gamer magazine. …
What David Perry is doing running a cloud gaming company and not making an new Earthworm Jim game, I will never know. Actually, that’s a lie: no-one is interested in a new moderately humorous 2D platformer; and that cloud gaming malarkey paid off rather handsomely this week, when Sony bought his company, Gaikai, for $380 …
This month’s Street Viewtiful takes us all the way to Bucharest in Romania, the home of development studio Fun Labs. They’re the guys behind movie tie-in Men in Black: Alien Crisis – which is out this week – and the copious amount of Cabela hunting games. For years we’ve assumed that they’ve based in the …
Nintendo made the real news this week, with news that they’ve made their first ever annual loss. Ever the helpful sort, I thought I’d employ Street Viewtiful – out vaguely regular jaunt around the gaming globe via Google Street View – to look around their properties to see where they might be able to save …
You may have noticed a few news stories floating around about Game Group lately. Just a few. Not stocking various big releases, share price plummeting, not stocking another big release, rumours of impending administration, not stocking some more big releases, not stocking another big release, potential buyers – and apparently they’re not stocking some big …
Looking through their back catalogue, budget publisher Midas Interactive released more games on the PSone and PlayStation 2 than some of the big publishers out there. It was certainly a case of quantity over quality though – you can count the amount of games worth playing on one hand. It’s really quite amazing that some …
Social gaming behemoth Zynga has been in the news a bit recently. You might have noticed. One particular highlight was Edge tearing apart Zynga’s assertion that it’s forthcoming game Dream Heights is the continuation of a long line of tower-based games, rather than a clone of Tiny Tower. Most entertaining. But what about the figurative …