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Apr
29

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PixelJunk Monsters Encore details + interview

+ Posted by Deborah Mars // Senior Producer, SCEA-Santa Monica Studios

Hey everyone,
We’re excited to be working with Dylan Cuthbert and Q-Games again on the upcoming release of PixelJunk Monsters Encore, a new expansion pack to the original game, which was released in late January 2008.
You may have recently read some previews of PJM Encore in a bunch of places. If you haven’t checked them out, [...]

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Mar
26

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SOCOM.com Now Ready For Confrontation

+ Posted by Seth Luisi // Director of Development, SCEA

Green up, it’s time to go.
I’m happy to announce that SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation will be hitting store shelves and the PLAYSTATION Store on September 16th, 2008. You’ll be able to download it from your couch or pick up a copy at your favorite brick-and-mortar and get to business.
As we approach the release of [...]

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Mar
10

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thatgamecompany’s 24hr Game Jam

+ Posted by Kellee Santiago // President and co-founder of thatgamecompany

Hello, I’m Kellee Santiago from thatgamecompany, creators of flOw, and currently in development on Flower. The fine people at Playstation.Blog are good enough to allow me to use my first post here to let you all in on a little thing we have going on here at thatgamecompany call the 24hr Game Jam.
Championed [...]

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Feb
20

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Work at Insomniac, play life-sized chess

+ Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

The Game Developers Conference isn’t just about showing off new games (really, that’s a rather small part of the conference). It’s a place where aspiring game developers can land themselves the job of a lifetime. Like working for Insomniac Games. As if getting to work on the Ratchet and Resistance series wasn’t incentive enough, the [...]

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Oct
31

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #6

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

To finish off our developer diary series on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, we have this guy named Ted Price, whom you may have heard of once or twice before :). He’s the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games and was the creative director on Resistance: Fall of Man. For RCF, Ted took [...]

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Oct
30

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #5 & Official Launch Day News

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

Part five of our six part Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction developer video diary series focuses on a group that, in games, is the most overlooked (and, at times, unfairly blamed for problems) yet is also one of the most essential. Namely: QA (quality assurance) or testing. As a change of pace, [...]

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Oct
29

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #4

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

For today’s dev video diary we’re talking with Giac (pronounced Jack). Giac Veltri that is. Giac is a tools programmer at Insomniac, working primarily on disc creation and localization. Which, come final time, makes Giac a very popular man at Insomniac with common inquiries of “where is the new build” and “why isn’t the game [...]

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Oct
26

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #3

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

For the third developer video diary, we’re shifting our focus to the more technical aspects of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - which brings us to Mark Lee. Mark is one of the few… the proud… the engine programmers. Mark and the rest of the engine team are responsible for creating the [...]

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Oct
25

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #2

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

Previously on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: The Developer Diaries, Brian Hastings discussed what Insomniac hoped to accomplish with the game’s story. Today’s dev video diary features TJ Fixman, who is the head writer at Insomniac. TJ does what any good writer does; he takes a rough concept or idea and breathes life [...]

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Oct
24

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Ratchet & Clank Future Developer Diary #1

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

With the official release of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction imminent (and the unofficial release date already passed), we’ve got a series of developer video diaries we’d like to share with you. For our first entry, we focus on one Brian Hastings, who is the Chief Creative Officer at Insomniac Games. Brian contributed [...]

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