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Andrew King Jun 30, 2021. 8 minute read
From Max Payne to Zeus: How Narration in Games Helps Developers Get Creative
It’s a concept as old as stories, but in games, you can mostly trace the use of a narrator back to a trio of indies released around the start of the last decade. In 2011’s Bastion, you were a little guy running around as your actions were described by a…
READ MORE >Imran Khan Apr 1, 2021. 1 minute read
Maneater Gets New DLC That We Had to Email PR to Make Sure Wasn’t a Joke
Maneater, last year’s open-world action-RPG about a man-eating shark, came out to surprising acclaim. The game put a players into the shoes, err, fins of a shark trying to make it in this big, scary world by mutating it into a weapon of mass destruction. It makes sense, then, that…
READ MORE >Natalie Flores May 22, 2020. 6 minute read
The Big Shark from Maneater is Gaming’s Newest Feminist Icon
No, I’m not joking. Maneater, the shark video game made by Tripwire Interactive out today, debuts the latest soon-to-be feminist icon in gaming. She won’t be the one that gets the accolades, the fame, or the endless think pieces on what her representation means for many people — but she’s still out here, in…
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Danielle Riendeau Mar 1, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanbyte Does PAX East 2020: Day Four
We made it, friends. We made it all the way through PAX East 2020, and oh, the sights we saw! John played Maneater, a game about being a terrifying shark that eats beach-goers. Danielle and Steven had a wild PAX experience with a demo of SoundSelf, designer Robin Arnott’s semi-experimental…
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