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Bad Day Airport
“The Airport” is one of the disasters in Bad Day LA. We included some nonsense about how the “food” is made, the baggage is searched, and the interrogation process is handled. It’s in the airport that the player acquires the smart-bomb weapon, a pair of nail clippers (The BDLA-9000). I was going to comment on…
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Bad Day LA DEMO – Available NOW!
Worthplaying has news of the Bad Day LA Demo release: Set in modern day Los Angeles, Bad Day L.A. is a third-person action/adventure combining fantastical art style, groundbreaking collaborative gameplay elements and a heavy dose of dark satire to create a truly unforgettable experience. This demo features the Biological Attack mission where a plane crashes…
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GamesRadar -Bad Day LA Demo- Hands ON
Games Radar is running a hands-on review of the Bad Day LA Demo: In Bad Day, we controlled the most unlikely of anti-heroes – a former movie producer named Anthony Williams who decided to chuck it all and live the carefree life of a homeless bum. Despite being a big-time Hollywood exec, our hero inexplicably…
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New Development Studio 上海
We’re building a new develoment team in Shanghai! Our first title will be an episodic game set in a dark, fairy tale universe. I can’t say much about it now, but I do want to put the word out that we’re searching for team members. If you’re an experienced programmer, artist, level designer, writer, musician,…
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Bad Day Bird Flu
The premise for Bad Day LA came out of my frustration with the pervasive “fear culture” that has existed in the US since 9/11 (although, many would say that it reaches back much further than that). The idea is an old one: governments gain control and corporations gain profit when they use fear as a…
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Double Fusion, Vykarian Partner For 3D Ads
Gamasutra – Double Fusion, Vykarian Partner For 3D Ads In-game advertising firm Double Fusion has announced that it has entered into a partnership with 3D art production firm Vykarian to make available 3D advertisements to Double Fusion’s clients. This agreement and associated technology will allow marketers to place actual products or other 3D models (like…
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Vykarian @ ChinaJoy 2006
For some time now I’ve been involved with a video game art outsourcing venture called Vykarian, located in Shanghai and founded by my buddy Xin Chung. We’ve been building towards an eventual goal of the “best and biggest” outsourcing venture in China. It’s our plan to establish art “factories” which are capable of cranking out…
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WGA and Activation Failures Don’t Faze Redmond
WGA and Activation Failures Don’t Faze Redmond While Microsoft insists that problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program are much overblown — claiming last week that “only a fraction of a percent” of the systems that fail the WGA verification are actually legal — Microsoft’s customers keep saying otherwise. What’s worse, the WGA false…
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A Call To Ban Things #3
Hong Kong is a densely packed forest of high-rise business and residential buildings. In many respects it is a modern, high-tech place. But it’s also China, which translates to “a little backwards”. For instance, people often seem unclear on the concept of gravity. There are many tales told of random objects falling from the skies:…