Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Playing with age in Starbreeze's 'Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons']]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/30/playing-with-age-in-starbreezes-brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/30/playing-with-age-in-starbreezes-brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/30/playing-with-age-in-starbreezes-brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/#comments Experimenting with Starbreeze's 'Brothers A Tale of Two Sons' with director Josef Fares"Nobody knows how to make a game yet," says film director Josef Fares, quickly clarifying his statement isn't an attack on the industry but a suggestion that game creation shouldn't be a set science. "It's still a time where we're open to experimentation," the international director adds.

Born in Lebanon, Fares grew up in Sweden where he became a director, but his next project pairs him with developer Starbreeze Games to create a game called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (formerly referred to as "P13" in Starbreeze's internal "project" numbering system). Brothers has been in development for a number of years, with Fares even working on a few of the game's prototypes before the team at Starbreeze locked down the Unreal-developed downloadable title for a 2013 release.

The core feature of Brothers is, of course, the game's siblings. But Fares says he's fought off all suggestions by his fellow game makers that the characters should each be controlled by a separate player. Instead, he says, Brothers is designed to have both characters controlled by a single player in a very specifically designed campaign experience.

Gallery: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (10/29/12)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>brothersbrothers-a-tale-of-two-sonsco-opjosef-faresp13playstationpreviewps3singleplayerstarbreezeTue, 30 Oct 2012 17:30:00 EST<![CDATA[505 and Starbreeze teaming up for Payday 2 and P13 in 2013]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/17/505-and-starbreeze-teaming-up-for-payday-2-and-p13-in-2013/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/17/505-and-starbreeze-teaming-up-for-payday-2-and-p13-in-2013/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/17/505-and-starbreeze-teaming-up-for-payday-2-and-p13-in-2013/#comments 505 and Starbreeze teaming up for Payday 2 and P13 in 2013Developer Starbreeze has revealed 505 Games will be its publishing partner for the upcoming sequel to the multiplayer-focused shooter, Payday: The Heist, along with original intellectual property P13, in development for the PSN, XBLA, and PC. Both games are planned for launch in 2013.

Starbreeze, which was behind EA's recent attempt to reboot the classic Syndicate series, acquired Payday alongside developer Overkill Studios earlier this year.

Though P13 is still masked in secrecy, we know it will be a downloadable "action-adventure game" and that Starbreeze has partnered with Swedish film director Josef Fares to help guide its "storyline, look and feel."

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>505-gamesjosef-faresmicrosoftoverkill-studiosp13payday-the-heistpcplaystationps3shooterstarbreezestarbreeze-studiosxboxMon, 17 Sep 2012 21:03:00 EST<![CDATA[Starbreeze's 'P13' headed to XBLA, PSN, and PC]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/starbreezes-p13-headed-to-xbla-psn-and-pc/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/starbreezes-p13-headed-to-xbla-psn-and-pc/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/starbreezes-p13-headed-to-xbla-psn-and-pc/#comments ImageCompared to other Swedish game development powerhouses - DICE, Avalanche, Massive - Syndicate developer Starbreeze keeps a lower profile. Having only released two projects in the last five years, Starbreeze isn't offering many consistent reminders that it still exists. Company president and CEO Mikael Nermark is aiming to change that, and his first two major projects are two games you probably haven't heard of: P13 and Cold Mercury.

"We're trying to build four independent core teams," Nermark told me in a phone interview earlier today. Beyond the existing teams at Starbreeze, the newly acquired Overkill Software wil serve as one of those four teams. So, four "core teams," four projects. We know Overkill is working on a sequel to last year's Payday: The Heist, and we know that two other teams are working on P13 and Cold Mercury (respectively), but that fourth team is a mystery.

Nermark wouldn't budge on new details about Cold Mercury, but he told me that P13 is currently "in the middle of production" and "it's going really well." The game is heading to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC. Starbreeze brought in an outside force to take creative lead on the project: Swedish director Josef Fares.

"He's one of the most or maybe the most famous movie directors in Sweden of all time. He's never done a game before, but he's an avid gamer and he loves games. So he actually left the movie industry and this guy is like having one of the top guys - this is the top guy in Sweden making movies. So he's actually working for us full-time," Nermark said. "To Swedes, this is like having a guy like Christopher Nolan working on the game on a daily basis."

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>cold-mercuryjosef-faresmicrosoftmikael-nermarkoverkilloverkill-softwarep13pcplaystationps3starbreezestarbreeze-studiosxboxFri, 20 Apr 2012 18:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Starbreeze concocting new IP with film director]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/starbreeze-concocting-new-ip-with-film-director/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/starbreeze-concocting-new-ip-with-film-director/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/starbreeze-concocting-new-ip-with-film-director/#comments Starbreeze Studios, which has its hands full with the Syndicate reboot, announced today that it is working on a new intellectual property. In collaboration with film director Josef Fares (pictured, right, with Starbreeze CEO Mikael Nermark) and The Story Lab AB, Starbreeze is currently developing the concept after being won over by a prototype. No release window was provided for the game.

Starbreeze is known for The Chronicles of Riddick games and The Darkness. Fares is known in Sweden for movies like Jalla! Jalla!, Kopps, Zozo and other stuff that isn't available on Netflix.

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JoystiqStarbreeze concocting new IP with film director originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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