Critical Gamer writes: Let us travel back into game history time just a little. In April 2008, esteemed development studio Stormfront Studios announced its closure. The studio was famous for developing games such as Neverwinter Nights, Stronghold, Blood Wake, Demon Stone and Eragon. In 2008 Neverwinter Nights was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for advancing the art form of MMORPG games.
Don Daglow will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Rebecca Ann Heineman will posthumously receive the Ambassador Award.
Just who is Don Daglow? He's an extremely enterprising man who is one of the best known members of the Blue Sky Rangers. The Blue Sky Rangers were the team of five people who first worked on programming games for the then new Intellivision. Don's work isn't a relic of gaming yesteryear though as he has continued being involved with consoles over the years. He's had a hand in games over every generation in gaming - even up to the current PS3 and 360!
Critical Gamer writes: Games industry veteran Don Daglow talks to Snezana Nedeski about the first console wars and crash, and about the deaths and revivals of 1980’s game companies like Intellivision and Activision.
Very interesting to hear from someone who was involved in the birth of the gaming industry.
Always a shame to see a dev shut down, especially one with a history like Stormfront's.
Sad but true. I wonder how long it will be until Infinity Ward joins the list!
20 million dollars of trade in ten days? Woah. I seriously need to get into this business...
Sucks, I loved Blood Wake on the Xbox, I remember looking at the graphics when it came out and thinking "wow, it looks so real!". It was a pretty hard game though. :(
The publisher of their Wii title made a huge mistake, Wii sales are still pretty good two years later. Software sales are hit or miss but who knows, maybe Stormfront had a good game?
I dont know, maybe cause their good games weren't on console?