After resigning from SCEE last week Phill Harrison directly has started working as the new software boss at Atari. The Dutch website Insidegamer took a picture of Harrison during the presentation on Atari's Alone in the Dark press event in New York.
Raw translation from the site: "Phil Harrison have immediately gotten to work at Atari. Our raging receivers Youri and Marvin are at the moment of letter in New York. Here they attend a presentation of Alone in the Dark. Ome Phil was thereby present positively slightly put the game in. What does not have to Phil exactly communicate know we, but it is beautiful see that he right has gone at its new employer to the battle."
Featuring a gripping story, design inspired by contemporary TV action dramas, and original gameplay based on real world rules physics, Eden Games' action survival opus Alone in the Dark is scheduled for release in May 2008 for Xbox 360, PC, Wii and PlayStation 2, with the PlayStation 3 version following later in 2008.
Pics in the link.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
