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Losing our head with Nacho Rodriguez, the creator of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:33:31 +0000

Looking like it stumbled out of the very earliest animations, The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a mixed media, surrealist graphic adventure that can’t help but catch the eye. We leapt at the chance to interview the man behind Mr. Coo, Nacho Rodríguez.

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Exclusive Interview: Hitching a ride with Alaskan Road Truckers and its developers, Road Studio

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:02:26 +0000

Our hobby has a lot of niches and corners that don’t often get reported on, and the long-haul driving sim is one of them. It’s one of gaming’s kinks, and Alaskan Road Truckers is the latest to feed it.

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An interview within an interview with Hanford Lemoore, maker of Maquette

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:35:07 +0000

If you’ve been refreshing the Recently Added tab of Game Pass, you will have seen a game called Maquette. It’s a bit of a clever clogs. So, when we were given the opportunity to meet the Smart Alec behind it all, well, we jumped at the chance.

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Digging into remasters with Enclave HD developers Ziggurat Interactive

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:46:52 +0000

Remasters have become an even hotter topic than usual in 2023. Into this discussion wades Alex Lotz of Ziggurat Interactive, who has taken on the task of updating 2002’s Enclave, in the form of Enclave HD. We pinned them down to discuss all things remake, following the game’s launch on Xbox.

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TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 168: despelote Interview and Final Fantasy XVI

Neil Watton — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:07:11 +0000

On the back of multiple specials covering the latest gaming presentations, TheXboxHub team go back to basics, focusing on the latest games in Episode 168 of TheXboxHub Official Podcast.

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Exclusive Interview: castaway with the makers of Stranded: Alien Dawn

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 13 May 2023 10:17:34 +0000

Squint at Stranded: Alien Dawn and you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a sandbox management sim that’s set on Earth. But the title gives a big old clue that Stranded: Alien Dawn isn’t quite so local. That’s enough for some questions to start bubbling up. Rather than suppress them, we brought them in a horse-pulled cart to Haemimont Games, makers of Stranded: Alien Dawn, to see what they had to say.

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Creating a new Pop! culture – 10:10 Games talk Funko Fusion

James Birks — Tue, 09 May 2023 10:31:25 +0000

We sat down with 10:10 Games' co-founder and Design Director, Arthur Parsons, in hope of finding out more about Funko Fusion, what it takes to create a new Pop! culture and how the franchise will look to embed itself into the gaming world.

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Exclusive interview: we put Capybara Games’ nose to the Grindstone

Dave Ozzy — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:39:07 +0000

Grindstone is a bloody fantastic (in all senses) puzzle game, where you take the role of Jorj, a dungeon raider and grindstone gatherer, as he chains together similarly coloured ‘creeps’. We had to hold in all that gushing praise, for a moment, when we were offered the chance to interview Dan Vader, director of Grindstone at Capybara Games. Nobody likes a suck-up.

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A chat around the fire with Medieval Dynasty makers, Render Cube

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:11:18 +0000

You might have noticed that Medieval Dynasty has just arrived for Xbox One players. We took it as an opportunity to tap up Render Cube to see if they fancied sitting round our campfire for a chat about bringing their game to an older generation of consoles. We ate a spit-roasted pig with an apple in the mouth, obviously.

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Settling down for an exclusive interview with Coffee Talk Episode 2’s lead writer and narrative designer

Richard Dobson — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:18:52 +0000

It was obvious that the arrival of Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly would be of interest. We reached out to the team at Toge Productions in hope of finding out more in advance of release of the sequel. Junki, their lead writer and narrative designer was more than happy to chat.

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An exclusive interview with Beneath developers and horror maestros, Camel 101

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:02:42 +0000

It’s been a banner year for survival horror. One company who is rather happy about this is Camel 101. Their next game is Beneath, which dunks you in the Atlantic Ocean and expects you to survive against Eldritch horrors. We settled down for a chat with Ricardo Cesteiro, the co-founder of Camel 101, so that we could discuss their upcoming chiller.

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Hitting the lanes with Zen Studios, the newly rebooted Pinball FX and that Pinball Pass subscription service

James Birks — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:40:00 +0000

If it's pinball you like, it's Zen Studios who are able to get you excited. We wanted to find out more about how the Pinball Pass subscription service came into play, as well as discovering the process behind the creation of Pinball FX as a whole. Zen Studios were more than happy to chat things over

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Exclusive interview with the super heroes at PHL Collective as they talk DC’s Justice League Cosmic Chaos

James Birks — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:07:40 +0000

There are many Super Hero games available in the gaming scene, but one of the most intriguing of recent times has been that of DC's Just League Cosmic Chaos. It's a game that we loved, but we wanted to know more and so grabbed the team at PHL Collective for a chat.

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Joining the Mile 0 club with Road 96 developers DigixArt

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:56:12 +0000

DigixArt could have done anything with their second game in the series, but they were as eager as we were to return to the world they created. It left us with so many questions. Luckily, DigixArt offered up Yoan Fanise, creative director, to satisfy our curiosity surrounding Road 96: Mile 0.

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A soul-searching interview with Jukai Studio, developers of Stray Souls

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:14:27 +0000

Stray Souls is the debut game from an independent studio built up of industry veterans, but it’s so self-assured that Jukai Studio feel like they’ve been around for yonks. We wondered whether it was the product of some pact with a devil, so chatted to the game director, Artur Laczkowski to find out.

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Chewing the fat with the team behind Peppa Pig: World Adventures, Petoons Studio

Dave Ozzy — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:30:10 +0000

What we do have positive feelings about is Peppa Pig: World Adventures and My Friend Peppa Pig, both released by Petoons Studio and published by Outright Games. We’re eager to find out about the sorcery that makes it possible, so we donned some wellies and jumped into a muddy puddle with lead producer David Moral to ask some questions.

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An exclusive interview with Jason Jolley, one of the three creators behind Stolen Realm

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:25:41 +0000

You haven’t hit someone with a sword like you will in Stolen Realm. But how did the ragdolling come about? It’s clearly the one question we wanted to ask Jason Jolley who helped to realise Stolen Realm. But we had to surround it with other questions so that we didn’t seem like madmen.

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Hitching an exclusive ride with Alex De Nittis, designer of Gigantosaurus: Dino Kart

Dave Ozzy — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:57:34 +0000

If you’ve played a karting game on the Xbox, there is a very good chance that Alex De Nittis (and 3DClouds) designed it. 3DClouds and Outright Games have added Gigantosaurus: Dino Kart to that list, and we took the opportunity to green shell Alex De Nittis long enough to chat.

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An exclusive interview with the lead game designer of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, a Zeno Clash sequel

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:27:26 +0000

Back on the Xbox 360, we had our asses handed to us repeatedly by the Zeno Clash series. That opportunity has arrived, some ten years after Zeno Clash 2 with the upcoming release of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. But we had questions: why so long? Why now? And would we get killed repeatedly again?

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Exclusive interview with the creatives behind Wales Interactive’s speed-dating FMV, Ten Dates

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:26:56 +0000

Having played Ten Dates, we were clearly still in the dating mood, as we took the opportunity to speed-date two of its creative forces: Paul Raschid, the writer-director of Ten Dates, and Charlie Maher, who plays Ryan in the game.

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Exclusive interview with Treachery in Beatdown City’s kingpin, Shawn Alexander Allen

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:58:00 +0000

Treachery in Beatdown City has gathered a hell of a following, having been featured in publications from LA Times to Paste, so the mash-up clearly works. It raises so many questions, in fact, that we jumped from the top-rope to tackle creator Shawn Alexander Allen and ask him a few questions.

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Exclusive Interview as Digital Eclipse go deep into Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Richard Dobson — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:40:23 +0000

We had the chance to sit down and find out more, throwing some questions at Chris Kohler of Digital Eclipse - they behind the development of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - hoping to understand more as to what was needed in order to make this Atari anniversary such a celebration.

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An exclusive interview with the makers of Fall of Porcupine, a doctor’s worst nightmare

Dave Ozzy — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 08:02:00 +0000

To find out more about the process of making Fall of Porcupine, we approached their Managing Director with a clipboard of questions in our hands.

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Exclusive interview with the back-stabbers behind Eville

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:14:44 +0000

Traitor! There’s something delightful about social deduction games like Among Us. We rarely get to undermine and betray our friends in real-life so living out those fantasies in video games is always a treat. Eville, a game from VestGames, published by Versus Evil, is building an experience around that simple concept.

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Exclusive interview with Escape Academy’s puzzle masters, Coin Crew Games

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:00:47 +0000

We had a lot of affection for Escape Academy, handing it a 4/5 in review, so we jumped at the chance to get locked in a room with its creators, Coin Crew Games.

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Exclusive interview with the creators of the Stranger Things-like Beacon Pines

Dave Ozzy — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

It’s not your average adventure game. Beacon Pines is the kind of game that would welcome an interview with its creators, as we have so many questions about its creation and reactions. Colour us lucky, then, that we got a chance to do exactly that.

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An exclusive interview with Dimfrost, the storytellers behind Bramble: The Mountain King

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:15:01 +0000

We face many monsters on the Xbox. So many, in fact, that they can begin to look like one another and lose the fear factor. Bramble: The Mountain King has a plan to resolve this problem, and the solution comes from storybooks - we jumped at the chance to interview two of the creative minds behind it.

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An exclusive interview with Simon the Sorcerer Origins developer Smallthing Studios

Dave Ozzy — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:26:00 +0000

There’s something of an adventure game resurgence going on, as Monkey Island returns with Ron Gilbert at the helm. It’s a perfect time, then, nearly thirty years after the original, for Simon the Sorcerer to make its return. Developed by Smallthing Studios, Simon the Sorcerer Origins is picking up the baton from where Adventure Soft left off.

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Exclusive interview with Terry Cavanagh, mastermind of Dicey Dungeons

Dave Ozzy — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:36:44 +0000

With so much going on in Dicey Dungeons, we thought it would be a fine time to chat with its originator and sole developer-designer, Terry Cavanagh. We had a lot to ask after falling under the spell of its new Reunion DLC

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Exclusive Interview with Plot Twist, authors of The Last Case of Benedict Fox

Dave Ozzy — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:31:10 +0000

Following the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, there were few games that left a lasting impression as much as The Last Case of Benedict Fox. Designed and developed by the relatively unknown Plot Twist studio, it oozed confidence. We were given the opportunity to interview creative director Bartek, who was able to take us on a guided tour through its macabre halls.The horror, the horror…

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