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Originally Posted by wraggster

Fez designer Phil Fish spoke this afternoon of how Fumito Ueda’s design philosophy on classic PS2 adventure Ico helped shape the final form of his revered XBLA puzzle-platformer.
Speaking at Nordic Game in Malmo this afternoon, Fish praised the people who inspired his approach to making games – naming Braun’s Dieter Rams as “maybe my favourite designer of all time”. A mark of good taste indeed.
But it was a 2004 GDC talk, during which Ueda coined the phrase ‘subtractive design’,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

For a certain type of geek, nothing is more important than Dungeons & Dragons. In January, Wizards of the Coast announced that the next iteration of the game (referred to as D&D Next) was under development, and now they've released an open playtest. They hope to gather as much player feedback as possible to help refine the new rules.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...ytest-released

Originally Posted by wraggster

The first ever official Total War modding tool, The Editor, has been released for Shogun 2 and standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai.TEd (as it's being affectionately shortened) is free and lets any Tom, Dick or Bushido make their own multiplayer and custom VS AI maps.Updating your Total War Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai games via Steam will unlock TEd. To install TEd, go to the Steam 'Library', select 'All games', 'Tools' and then install 'Total War: Shogun 2 - TEd'.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

KickBeat, a "music combat game" from Zen Studios, launches on Vita this Summer.You'll be matching beats to pull off various martial art moves in time with the music. They'll be no on-screen prompts as in other music games - you'll be free to create your own sequence of attacks.The soundtrack is made up of licensed tunes from the likes of Pendulum and Marilyn Manson, alongside lesser known acts such as Taiwanese rapper Shen Yi. You'll also be able to import your own music into the game

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Yakuza 5, as revealed in a leak from the latest Famitsu magazine, sounds like it's expanding significantly on its predecessors, spreading out into five Japanese cities (Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka) with one protagonist in each – for a total of five, one more than any previous game.

Those protagonists include Kazuma Kiryu, who is now a cab driver in Fukuoka (but will certainly get back to solving

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