Definitely start with GameFront’s 1-On-1 feature with Dishonored’s Lead Designer, Ricardo Bare. The article examines his career — going full circle from Deus Ex to Dishonored. Here’s a quick tease from the article:

“A twelve-year gaming industry veteran, he made his bones as a junior designer on the original Deus Ex, a game he acknowledges is the spiritual predecessor to Dishonored. An impressive achievement in universe-building and gameplay, Dishonored is built around his view that interactivity, more than story, is key to making a great game. But Bare also writes fiction, with several published short stories and his debut novel due for release in spring, 2013.”

Elsewhere, check out these links:

• In the embed above, Polygon’s Chris Plante and Russ Frushtick discuss really important aspects of Dishonored.</sarcasm>
• Did you watch the Dishonored backstory videos? Learn how they were made in a recent feature up at Motionographer.com.
• The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy catches up with Raph and Harvey.
• Flesh Eating Zipper shares why they feel Dishonored is “The Most Original Game of the Year”.
• AusGamers scores Dishonored a 9.6/10 calling it, “One of this generation’s best efforts”.
• Kotaku’s Mark Serrels discusses perfecting gameplay in his feature, “Performance and the Art of Restraint“
• Gamasutra examines why people are compelled to play Dishonored.

T-minus one week until Dishonored’s release!!

In the pic above, Harvey and Raf are all smiles as they check out final copies of the game. While you wait for October 9th, here’s some Dishonored news to catch up on:

• GamesRadar ranks Dishonored as one of their top 5 games of the fall.
• Whatculture.com gives eight reasons why Dishonored could be the game of the year.
• Win Corvo’s mask and jacketin a new sweepstakes at GamesRadar.

Finally, catch out this fantastic jam from the always entertaining Dan Bull.

To start, Revision3 named Dishonored their PAX Prime Game of Show. Watch their new interview with Raf Colantonio above.

• Kotaku – reveals why they love Stealth games like Dishonored.
• 1Up -  ”…if Dishonored doesn’t end up being one of the best games of the year, I’ll be absolutely shocked.”
• The New York Times – “The most intriguing original fiction of the next four months.”
• Kotaku – Mark Serrels plays Dishonored, possesses a fish, and shares, “In Dishonored there are seemingly endless matrices of choice, multiple different ways to approach multiple different problems. Room to breathe, room to think, space to engage meaningfully with an environment.”
• PC Powerplay – “Not only does Dishonored look set to be Arkane’s best title yet, but if Looking Glass were around today, it is undoubtedly the kind of game they would be making”.
• CVG – Calls Dishonored “the most amazing new IP of the year.”
• IGN – Executive Producer Julien Roby discusses why now is a good time to release a new IP like Dishonored.
• VG247 – New interview with Raf Colantonio

Finally, take a photo tour of Arkane’s offices in a new feature at Business Insider.

Four weeks!

Plenty of new details to share on GameTrailers’ Best New IP of E3, Dishonored!

Interviews

I. Eat. Games – Raphael Colantonio talks about working with Viktor Antonov, non-lethal playthroughs, different endings, and more. To learn more about how decisions impact the game’s ending, read this article at The Escapist.

Develop – Art Director Sebastien Mitton discusses how crucial pre-production was to Dishonored’s development.

The Penny Arcade Report – Designs decisions relating to supernatural powers and the game’s “Chaos” rating are discussed by Harvey and Raf.

Previews

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - “It’s quite good. Actually, that’s unfair. It’s better than quite good. And it’s making me yearn.”

PC Gamer – “Experimentally, I clang my knife against a metal pipe. A second later, the guard comes running down the corridor, passes through the field, and disintegrates into floating, glowing dust. Wow.”

OXM UK – New preview shares seven amusing ways to fail completely and die

CVG – “What we’re really excited about is delving into a game that delivers bags of player freedom and immense prospects for experimentation, coupled with the tightly focused density of gameplay impossible in vast open world games.”

RipTen -”Dishonored’s earned its action-stealth label quite a few times over. The blend of skills along with Corvo’s array of weapons lends itself perfectly to either kind of play through.”

Telegraph UK – “What impressed most about about Dishonored was that the two scenarios were quite clearly two ends of a wide spectrum. How much creativity and impromptu adaptation exist within that range will determine the game’s success, and Arkane certainly appear to be offering an impressive palette with which to experiment. That thirst for invention and interpretation, coupled with the creeping atmosphere of Dunwall should make Dishonored a dark horse for the best game of 2012.”

Xbox 360 Achievements – “Our first hands-on taste of Dishonored was short, sweet and easy, but it was also utterly brilliant… if I do say so myself. There are so many more powers we could have used throughout the mission as well, including the whirlwind, and we did all that without so much as firing a bullet, just how we like it. And that’s the beauty of Dishonored: you can play it exactly how you want, whether that’s quiet, loud or a mix of the two.”

Oh, and the image above? That’s one of the latest updates from our Dishonored tumblr page. Visit the site regularly for concept pieces, animated GIFs, and other pieces that capture the the game’s unique flavor.