Developer Pop Quiz is a weekly interview series in which we ask developers from around the industry the same 10 questions and post their responses.
If you own a Wii or DS then you should take note of one of the best studios developing games for both of those platforms, WayForward, whose latest title, "Batman: The Brave And The Bold The Videogame" comes out next Tuesday. That title's designer, Adam Tierney, was the latest developer to take our weekly Developer Pop Quiz and give us some insight into who he is as a gamer, what he thinks of the industry, and why he thinks modern games can learn from their predecessors.
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Take-Two celebrated $12.4 million in third-quarter profits this week, thanks to titles like "Red Dead Redemption" and "Mafia 2," but the same fiscal report on Take2Games.com that showed off those success stories also confirmed that Team Bondi's "L.A. Noire" has officially had its release date pushed into 2011. Why exactly? Well to make it better of course. Isn't that the reason most titles fall behind schedule and resurface many months after they're initially supposed to come out?
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UPDATE: During a presentation at PAX, Pitchford stated that the game was planned for 2011. Take that, Wall Street Journal!
Original Story: Over the last few weeks, we've heard rumors that 2K Games was reviving the oft-delayed "Duke Nukem Forever" and placing the final development responsibilities on Gearbox Software. Seems those rumors were spot-on, as the publisher re-revealed the game at a PAX press conference.
In an exclusive interview conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Randy Pitchford, the CEO of Gearbox, said that his company started working on "Duke Nukem Forever" in late 2009. Said Pitchford, "Clearly the game hadn't been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created...The approach and investment and process at 3d Realms didn't quite make it and it cracked at the end. With Gearbox Software we brought all those pieces together. It's the game it was meant to be."
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Earlier this week, Activision held the very first hands-on event for "Call of Duty: Black Ops" multiplayer. We already gave you some impressions from the game, including a rundown of all the new features, in our "Call of Duty: Black Ops" multiplayer preview, but there's still a lot more to share. Specifically, we managed to take down the massive list of every single unlockable that Treyarch showed at the multiplayer event. Every gun, every perk, every killstreak. Hell, we even took down all the custom red dot scope designs. Yes, we're that crazy. So here we go:
PRIMARY WEAPONS AND ATTACHMENTS
SECONDARY WEAPONS AND ATTACHMENTS
CAMOUFLAGE AND RETICLE DESIGNS
GEAR
PERKS AND KILL STREAKS
CONTRACTS
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Just Add Water remains coy about any new Oddworld games they might be working on, but they've been more than upfront with their plans to revisit old games and get them out to new places. First, they decided to unload their core title library on Steam, and now they've revealed that "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath" will be getting an HD treatment and re-release for the PlayStation 3.
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Woah, look at that awesome tank at the top of this post! Doesn't that look like a ton of fun to drive around? Wooooooo! Oh wait, if you're like me (and many other people on the internet), you can't actually play with it, because the new "Crackdown 2" Toy Box DLC that launched yesterday totally borks the game. The hits just keep on coming with "Crackdown 2."
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June's PlayStation 3 firmware release didn't include 3-D Blu-ray capabilities, but Sony is on the case, and they've announced that the expected update will instead come in October. Some thought the feature might arrive in September, but Sony has cleared the air and committed to next moth.
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One of the most impressive demos I saw during E3 was "Dead Space 2." It's not that it really broke new ground for the franchise, just a few updates here and there, but it just looked so polished, and it was a blast to play. I had no doubts there was fun to be had with this game, but whether it was enough of an improvement to justify an additional $60 was still hovering around in my mind. Turns out EA and Visceral will be padding "Dead Space 2" with adversarial multiplayer.
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Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA leaked his involvement in "DJ Hero 2" earlier this year, and the full "DJ Hero 2" track list confirmed that FreeStyleGames would be using his beats. Activision made everything nice and official today, though, and he'll be playable!
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Capcom offered a taste of what "Mega Man Universe" will be like in their last trailer for the game, but this week they put the spotlight on gameplay at long last. At least three editions of the Blue Bomber appeared in various peeks at the title, and all of them come tagged with a Ryu tease at the end.
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