Dishonored voted #1 at Eurogamer Expo

While last week’s Eurogamer Expo is over, there’s still plenty of buzz coming out of the event. Today Eurogamer revealed the attendees’ top 10 list, with Dishonored coming in as the most popular game of the show. Here’s an excerpt from the article…

“Dishonored’s another smart offering, though it’s perhaps not as shy about that part of its make-up as some of its compatriots. Here’s a game that promises to reward the intelligent player, its brand of stealth being culled straight from a golden age of PC gaming. That a new IP from a pretty much unproven studio is generating so much excitement is testament to Dishonored’s power.”

Read the full article here.

Catch the Dishonored Developer sessions at EuroGamer Expo

Heading to this year’s Eurogamer Expo and anxious to see more on Dishonored. This is the blog post you’ve been looking for!

Arkane’s Christophe Carrier (lead level designer and audio director) and Dinga Bakaba (assistant producer and game designer) will introduce Dishonored at length on Friday, September 28th (5 PM), and against midday on Saturday, September 29th.

In addition to the presentations, Dishonored will be playable on the Eurogamer Expo show floor through out the event, running September 27th-30th at London’s Earls Court.

For more details, visit eurogamer.net/expo.

RAGE and Skyrim playable at this year’s Eurogamer Expo

With the Gamescom 2011 over, our UK office is already preparing for Eurogamer Expo 2011 — taking place at Earl’s Court in London September 22 – 25th. You’ll definitely want to check out this year’s event, as both RAGE and Skyrim will be playable!

If you’re interested in attending, be sure to purchase tickets before they sell out.

Around the web: Brink wins Eurogamer Expo Game of Show

Like whack-a-mole, we put up new coverage roundups, and more and more stuff keeps popping up. In addition to our recent updates for RAGE, Brink (parts 1 and 2), New Vegas, and Hunted… we’ve MORE news to share.

Kicking things off, we’re excited to share news that Brink was named the #1 Game of Show at this year’s Eurogamer Expo. You can check out the top ten games here (which includes New Vegas as well). Congrats to the team at Splash Damage for their efforts both on the game and at recent trade show events.

Also ranking the top games from the show was split/screen co-op — who ranked New Vegas, Brink, and Hunted in their top 10. Swap New Vegas out for RAGE, and that pretty much sums up the most recent Eurogamer podcast. Definitely worth listening to, the podcast features RAGE’s Tim Willits, Hunted’s Maxx Kaufman, and Brink’s Ed Stern.

More after the break…

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Hunted Roundup

Continuing with roundups on coverage, we switch gears to Hunted.

There’s a pair of new interviews with Game Director Maxx Kaufman– courtesy of Coin-Op TV and Sarcastic Gamer (shown above).

And for more on Hunted, check out these links…

inXile President Matt Finley discusses the game’s development with Gamesauce
DealSpwn shares their impressions of playing the game
GameShard previews the game and also features an interview with Maxx Kaufman
Preview at MyInsideGamer
The Koalition interviews Matt Findley at this year’s Eurogamer Expo

As we have more news on Hunted, we’ll let you know. In the meantime, if you have questions on the game, feel free to post them in our fan interview thread.

Brinking the news to you…

Keeping with Brink news, we’ve got more previews and interviews to share from this year’s Eurogamer Expo.

Above, Game Director Paul Wedgwood gives a Container City walkthrough to the fine folks at Destructoid. If you haven’t seen them already, we have HD-quality videos up on Brink’s official site.

After sharing reactions from Eurogamer Expo attendees, Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith brings us his hand-on impressions — discussing why the winning in Brink is cool…

“Some of it’s down to the SMART system, which in Splash Damage language means “Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain” and in English means “A sprint button that also causes your character to go hurtling up and over things automatically”. You’ll jump small gaps, vault fences, and go mantling up onto high ledges. Most importantly, tapping crouch while sprinting like this drops your character into a long slide, which is actually both evasive and aggressive. You can shoot during it (with much-reduced accuracy), and sliding into another player knocks them over.”

For more on Brink, check out the following links…

Previews

Splash Damage’s Olivier Leonardi discusses his role as the game’s art director and more with NXT Gamer.
Gameroni share why they think Brink is the most interested shooter on the horizon.
Paul Wedgwood talks shop with Sarcastic Gamer and GameRant.
Brink lead writer Ed Stern entertains questions (and stays entertaining as ever) in new with Critical Gamer. The site also caught up with Paul Wedgwood — nice picture of Paul!
PS3 Attitude talks to Richard Ham about how fireteams work, as well as how the game blurs the lines between single player, coop, and multiplayer.

And in case you missed it, you can read more Eurogamer Expo coverage for Brink in a post we did last week.

RAGE Weekend Roundup

Last weekend’s Eurogamer expo saw daily stage presentations of id’s RAGE, and the folks there were pretty fired up for it. As Eurogamer wrote:

Every day at this year’s Eurogamer Expo, Tim Willits takes to the stage in our massive auditorium to show and talk about RAGE, the latest first-person shooter to issue forth from the legendary id Software. To understand how exciting we find this, it is worth noting that without id’s games Eurogamer literally would not exist – several of the founding staff only do this because they grew up on Doom and Quake.

That paragraph precedes a long interview with Willits that can be digested here. A number of sites also talked to Willits, including Games.On.Net, VG247, AtomicGamer, GameRant, BrutalGamer, Critical Gamer and GameShard. And if you’re looking for a write-up of the presentation, head to VG247 for a live blog recap.

Finally, in general id news, Next-Gen wrote an excellent bio on John Carmack’s Legacy. Amongst other interesting anecdotes, it mentions that Carmack’s son has ambitious plans for robotic domination. Somehow we are not surprised.

Update: Check out a preview, as well as a new video interview with Tim at GamerCast.

Brink Roundup

After last weekend’s Eurogamer Expo in London, there’s a ton of new coverage on Hunted, RAGE, Fallout: New Vegas, and Brink. With this roundup, we’ll cover the event’s home team, Splash Damage, and all the latest details on Brink.

We actually begin with news not from the Eurogamer Expo, but from the Penny Arcade Expo. Last week, GameTrailers put up a new walkthrough video they captured while in Seattle. Check out new footage from Container City above — featuring play-by-play commentary from Creative Director Richard Ham (and gameplay awesomeness from Media Director Richard Jolly).

For hands-on impressions from the Eurogamer Expo, check out the following sites…

Check out multiple reactions from fans and press that played Brink at Rock, Paper, Shotgun
BeefJack has a meaty preview for the game from Peter Willington
All-new impressions at TheSixthAxis
Short summary from WeDoNetwork
SuperHappyFunTimeShow has a super duper time playing Brink
Brutal Gamer gives their take after playing the game
Preview from Press X or Die. Left Click Mouse to Live (and read)
ConsoleMonster was victorious in their Day 1 session at the show and declared the game “Steal of the Show”

We’ve also got a number of interviews to share. With the video interviews, there’s a fair amount of background noise, but if you put some headphones on, you should be good to go. Hit up the links below.

Interviews

The Koalition gets Ed “Bongo Boy” Stern on camera for an interview.
Lead Designer Neil Alphonso answers questions for That VideoGame Blog, Brutal Gamer, MyInsideGamer
Paul Wedgwood answers Brink questions with VG247, Gaming Lives, Sarcastic Gamer, and for ADDICTofFICTION

In other Brink news, Kotaku has a feature entitled “Meet the Pixar of Video Games.” It’s a feature on Blur Studios — the guys that created the official trailer for Brink (and many other memorable trailers).

That’s all for now. We’ll get updates for RAGE, New Vegas, and Hunted soon.

Eurogamer Expo Update: Playable titles

Earlier in the month, we let you know about the Hunted and RAGE presentations taking place at this year’s Eurogamer Expo (more on that in a bit), but we also wantd you to know we have playable titles at the show. Like QuakeCon and PAX, you’ll have a chance to go hands-on with Hunted, New Vegas and Brink. And with Brink, you’ll even have a chance to chat with with developers from Splash Damage.

One quick programming note, the presentation for Hunted has been moved to 3:30 PM on Saturday, October 2nd. For those wanting to see RAGE, that presentation will be shown each day at 5 PM.

For more details on this year’s show, head to the event’s official site. If you think you’d like to attend, you might want to purchase your tickets now (Saturday’s tickets are already sold out).

Eurogamer Expo 2010 Presentations

Living in London? Wishing you were at PAX? There’s good news for you. Encore presentations of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge and RAGE will be shown at Eurogamer Expo 2010 in Earl’s Court, London.

This year’s show will take place on October 1-3, with presentations for RAGE each day at 5 PM each day. Meanwhile, Hunted will be demoed on Saturday, October 2nd at 3:30 PM.

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