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War Stories: How Deus Ex was almost too complex for its own good

Directed by James Herron, edited by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript . (video link) Coming in under the wire here is our last video for 2021—and we tried to make it a fun one. If you play games, chances are you’ve played something that Warren Spector was involved in creating—with stints at Origin, Ion […]

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New book Press Reset investigates the high human cost of game development

Enlarge / Jason Schreier’s latest deep dive on the game industry is out on May 11 at all major booksellers. (credit: Grand Central Publishing) Games industry journalist Jason Schreier has left his mark over the years by digging up behind-the-scenes dirt at sites like Kotaku and Bloomberg, but he may be best known for Blood, […]